GMail as a nearly perfect spam filter from my experience. The reason why it probably doesn't catch your spam e-mails is because you forward them to your GMail account so they are not from the same source, the header gets modified and bla bla bla many other things.
If the spams where to be delivered directly to your GMail account (directed at your GMail address) instead of being forwarded to it, they would get filtered at about a 100% rate. My GMail account address is the only one that I don't care to release publicly because their spam filter is so good, in fact, I post on the newsgroups with my GMail address and it has never been a problem.
Big congratulations to NASA and everyone who made this (again) possible. I watched liftoff from the web and it was spectacular. Good luck to the crew and NASA for the remainder of the flight and the upcoming ones.
The fact that a CIO probably doesn't know anything about Linux and thinks that his servers are running Windows (because it's the only thing he understands) but his system administrator has already been running most of the servers under some flavor of Linux for years is something that happens very often...
Most of them know about the end-result but the ways to provide this end-result are simply not valuable information for them. I think this "survey" only proves this point. They only know about buzzwords like "Windows" "Linux" "Apache" "IIS" but have them explain the difference to you, it's like watching Dilbert's boss on TV...
Why didn't he just took off and re-landed right away, it would've been much faster than going around the world just to land at the same spot... DUH !!! Scientists, always missing the obvious...
RedVortex
I stopped using netscape a while ago... Actually, it was exactly when they put out Netscape 6, everything in my system was crawling to a halt as soon as I was using it... I moved to mozilla and more recently firefox, now that's browsing !
They had a great product but somewhere along the way something went bad...
Short and simple: nothing new here. It has been like that for many years (US children not knowing basic stuff like this when almost all of the rest of the world knows it and they are not even U.S. citizens). But then again, when you listen to U.S. people, they own everything, their President is President of the world, not the US, Irak is a state of America, Russians are bad people, so are Chinese but don't say so just now, we're not ready to attack them yet and Canada is... what and where is Canada ?
I'm proud of not being a U.S. Citizen, particurlarly since the recent war against Irak and the last election... I feel sorry for most of the U.S. people.
I live in Quebec, Canada very near Montreal and our cable provider here is Videotron. Standard cable modem speed is 5.1Mbits Downstream and about 768 upstream (not very sure about the upstream). That's what they advertise, but I'm actually running about 600 KBytes/secs when I download. Just a bit slower, but hey, it's VERY stable and always fast, all the time...
What is very cool with them, is they're currently beta testing VOIP, so my local phone line is provided by them also using the very same cable modem and it works perfectly. Some minors glitches at first but now, it is perfect. I'm not even connected to Bell Canada anymore.
Btw, anyone who is deserved by them can be part of the beta testing, you just have to reside on the south shore of Montreal and call them, here's the number: (514) 380-7763. I got set you up for free and have 4 months of free local service and Quebec (province) long distance calls free, they also have a web page with some details (I only have the french page on hand though, sorry...
RedVortex
P.S. I don't work there:-) Really... Too bad though...
Well... Plastic, when you heat it, goes liquid (and you really don't want to touch it when it is liquid, believe me), then back to solid when you remove the heat, you can even do it a couple of times before it has become totally a gas because of the heating process. I did it a lot of times with a lighter and straws (and too much time to spare) when I was young...
So, considering my past experiences, it looks like people who make great discoveries are either very intelligent or very stupid, hehehe
When I saw it, I thought to myself: "Stupid geek (to myself), this guy created an amazing thing and the only f*cking thing you can notice is the mailto: untouched! C'mon, get a life!"
And I thought I was weird, seems I'm not unique after all !
When the IPv4 bug came out (the bug that struck about everything that was Cisco branded), we were warned and patched by them for all of our routers and switches about one week in advance.
That's the kind of things that are necessary when you're a big ISP but that are totally useless when things like 0-day vulnerability warnings are sent out by lists like Full Disclosure that don't respect much of anything
The thing I miss the most from the Mozilla is the ability to type something to search directly in the address bar press the down arrow (selecting: search google for...) then [enter]... No need to add another space wasting thingy just for searches.
Sorry but I really can't get over it, I loved that feature. I was using it all the time...
Also, I still have some rendering problems with slashdot, sometimes the page renders on two side-to-side pages, very weird, it's happening right now, when I click preview, I have to scroll right to see the preview and the post comment boxes, all the rest is at the left, very weird...
Well, we're still under 1.0... Then again, just check MSIE, they are at 6.x and they still can't get everything right, hehehe
RedVortex
-- Please direct all bugs reports to/dev/null...
So what is it? Just a very very small 5 1/4" floppy... Nothing very new here.
Well, maybe for the storage space but hey! we're in 2003 now! Things like that have become very common, like flying cars and enery transporters so what the heck?!? A 5 gig floppy disk, bah ! Ordinary stuff...
Well, it is also 95% of chances to be in jail for them if they get caught because it surely sounds like terrorism to me, spreading bad things and gathering info against your will.
I'd like to see the RIAA in deep ****:-) They might have to let out a few secrets ($$$) about them if there's a trial...
---
RIAA (Royalties Is All we Accept
Spanning tree doesn't kick in just for fun, there was a problem, and suggesting another parallel network only means thay haven't found it and that it's going to happen again. And it surely doesn't take days to figure out a problem like there are a huge number of ways to fix it temporarily anyway.
I dealt with Cisco in the past and believe me, if they're not the ones who created and builted your network, they're not the ones you want around fixing things. And surely not the ones making (sorry) stupid suggestions like this one (parallel network, duh!).
Cisco have probably one of the greatest hardware around but it will still behave like crap when you don't have the right people managing it.
The quick answer is, find what happened, fix it and maintain it correctly and document it, then if something happens, before pulling plugs and messing around, RTFM:-)
1 - He has the biggest penis in the world 2 - He's the richest Cowboy on earth and only works from home, 30 minutes a day 3 - He got a pill that fixes every medical related problem or your money back less shipping/handling (which represent 90% of the purchase) 4 - He's a genius since he has every possible degree from any possible University 5 - blah blah blah...
The spam really changed his world, it can do the same for you ! Hit the reply button NOW and get 50% if you're the next customer to reply !;-)
Becoming a miserable person was very quick and easy.
I finished high school
Got a job as tech support in an ISP
Told them I knew a bit about unix because I just knew about Linux and installed it to see what this was
Got promoted to Senior Sys Admin and there I was sitting, all alone in front of 45 servers including Irix, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NT/2000 and Novell and I was also doing network, vpn, firewall and pretty much everything that was new and that no one was able to handle. Learned by myself for 4 years and now, I can say that I'm pretty good at it.
But then, I'm also not having a life at all, doing 24/7 support for the servers, having to travel all around the province, the states and even country to do networks connections, set up servers, and all that.
Believe me, it's nowhere near a life... But then again, I was doing 65K/year + bonus for 24/7 support, all expenses paid by the employer, and I only finished high school....
Good luck, but give it a good think. And if you still want to do it, give it a good think. And if you still want to do it,... you know what to do... Give it a good think... And if you're lucky, you'll live happily just thinking about it instead of dying young and miserable in front of 45 servers...:-)
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I don't agree with you at all Antifuse, sorry.
GMail as a nearly perfect spam filter from my experience. The reason why it probably doesn't catch your spam e-mails is because you forward them to your GMail account so they are not from the same source, the header gets modified and bla bla bla many other things.
If the spams where to be delivered directly to your GMail account (directed at your GMail address) instead of being forwarded to it, they would get filtered at about a 100% rate. My GMail account address is the only one that I don't care to release publicly because their spam filter is so good, in fact, I post on the newsgroups with my GMail address and it has never been a problem.
Good job Google, keep it up!
RedVortex
Can somebody point me the correct HREF to click on ?
:-)
You made your point dude, you're good at linking sites to your posts...
RedVortex
Mind if I borrow your tagline ? It's the best explanation to give to a smoker that I've seen yet. RedVortex
Big congratulations to NASA and everyone who made this (again) possible. I watched liftoff from the web and it was spectacular. Good luck to the crew and NASA for the remainder of the flight and the upcoming ones.
RedVortex
Men... this is deep... ;-)
RedVortex
34 kilometers per second, faster than the Earth travels through space.
Compared to what, relative to what ? The moon ? Saturn ? Space is quite big you know...
RedVortex
The fact that a CIO probably doesn't know anything about Linux and thinks that his servers are running Windows (because it's the only thing he understands) but his system administrator has already been running most of the servers under some flavor of Linux for years is something that happens very often...
Most of them know about the end-result but the ways to provide this end-result are simply not valuable information for them. I think this "survey" only proves this point. They only know about buzzwords like "Windows" "Linux" "Apache" "IIS" but have them explain the difference to you, it's like watching Dilbert's boss on TV...
RedVortex
Why didn't he just took off and re-landed right away, it would've been much faster than going around the world just to land at the same spot... DUH !!! Scientists, always missing the obvious... RedVortex
I stopped using netscape a while ago... Actually, it was exactly when they put out Netscape 6, everything in my system was crawling to a halt as soon as I was using it... I moved to mozilla and more recently firefox, now that's browsing !
They had a great product but somewhere along the way something went bad...
RedVortex
Short and simple: nothing new here. It has been like that for many years (US children not knowing basic stuff like this when almost all of the rest of the world knows it and they are not even U.S. citizens). But then again, when you listen to U.S. people, they own everything, their President is President of the world, not the US, Irak is a state of America, Russians are bad people, so are Chinese but don't say so just now, we're not ready to attack them yet and Canada is... what and where is Canada ?
I'm proud of not being a U.S. Citizen, particurlarly since the recent war against Irak and the last election... I feel sorry for most of the U.S. people.
RedVortex
I live in Quebec, Canada very near Montreal and our cable provider here is Videotron. Standard cable modem speed is 5.1Mbits Downstream and about 768 upstream (not very sure about the upstream). That's what they advertise, but I'm actually running about 600 KBytes/secs when I download. Just a bit slower, but hey, it's VERY stable and always fast, all the time...
:-) Really... Too bad though...
What is very cool with them, is they're currently beta testing VOIP, so my local phone line is provided by them also using the very same cable modem and it works perfectly. Some minors glitches at first but now, it is perfect. I'm not even connected to Bell Canada anymore.
Btw, anyone who is deserved by them can be part of the beta testing, you just have to reside on the south shore of Montreal and call them, here's the number: (514) 380-7763. I got set you up for free and have 4 months of free local service and Quebec (province) long distance calls free, they also have a web page with some details (I only have the french page on hand though, sorry...
RedVortex
P.S. I don't work there
Well... Plastic, when you heat it, goes liquid (and you really don't want to touch it when it is liquid, believe me), then back to solid when you remove the heat, you can even do it a couple of times before it has become totally a gas because of the heating process. I did it a lot of times with a lighter and straws (and too much time to spare) when I was young...
So, considering my past experiences, it looks like people who make great discoveries are either very intelligent or very stupid, hehehe
RedVortex
Gee man ! I noticed it too ! hehehe
When I saw it, I thought to myself: "Stupid geek (to myself), this guy created an amazing thing and the only f*cking thing you can notice is the mailto: untouched! C'mon, get a life!"
And I thought I was weird, seems I'm not unique after all !
RedVortex
Cisco does exactly the same thing...
When the IPv4 bug came out (the bug that struck about everything that was Cisco branded), we were warned and patched by them for all of our routers and switches about one week in advance.
That's the kind of things that are necessary when you're a big ISP but that are totally useless when things like 0-day vulnerability warnings are sent out by lists like Full Disclosure that don't respect much of anything
RedVortex
I wonder how KDE is going to deal with that. This is quite a useful feature.
Patents should be reserved for people, not corporations.
--RedVortex
Wow man, that is just a great tip ! How did you get this about:config thing ?
:-)
Please don't tell me it was in the manual ?
The thing I miss the most from the Mozilla is the ability to type something to search directly in the address bar press the down arrow (selecting: search google for...) then [enter]... No need to add another space wasting thingy just for searches.
... Then again, just check MSIE, they are at 6.x and they still can't get everything right, hehehe
/dev/null...
Sorry but I really can't get over it, I loved that feature. I was using it all the time...
Also, I still have some rendering problems with slashdot, sometimes the page renders on two side-to-side pages, very weird, it's happening right now, when I click preview, I have to scroll right to see the preview and the post comment boxes, all the rest is at the left, very weird...
Well, we're still under 1.0
RedVortex
-- Please direct all bugs reports to
So what is it? Just a very very small 5 1/4" floppy... Nothing very new here.
Well, maybe for the storage space but hey! we're in 2003 now! Things like that have become very common, like flying cars and enery transporters so what the heck?!? A 5 gig floppy disk, bah ! Ordinary stuff...
Well, it is also 95% of chances to be in jail for them if they get caught because it surely sounds like terrorism to me, spreading bad things and gathering info against your will.
:-) They might have to let out a few secrets ($$$) about them if there's a trial...
I'd like to see the RIAA in deep ****
---
RIAA (Royalties Is All we Accept
Spanning tree doesn't kick in just for fun, there was a problem, and suggesting another parallel network only means thay haven't found it and that it's going to happen again. And it surely doesn't take days to figure out a problem like there are a huge number of ways to fix it temporarily anyway.
:-)
I dealt with Cisco in the past and believe me, if they're not the ones who created and builted your network, they're not the ones you want around fixing things. And surely not the ones making (sorry) stupid suggestions like this one (parallel network, duh!).
Cisco have probably one of the greatest hardware around but it will still behave like crap when you don't have the right people managing it.
The quick answer is, find what happened, fix it and maintain it correctly and document it, then if something happens, before pulling plugs and messing around, RTFM
That "someone" must be CowbowNeal.
;-)
That's well-known that:
1 - He has the biggest penis in the world
2 - He's the richest Cowboy on earth and only works from home, 30 minutes a day
3 - He got a pill that fixes every medical related problem or your money back less shipping/handling (which represent 90% of the purchase)
4 - He's a genius since he has every possible degree from any possible University
5 - blah blah blah...
The spam really changed his world, it can do the same for you ! Hit the reply button NOW and get 50% if you're the next customer to reply !
RedVortex
Becoming a miserable person was very quick and easy.
... you know what to do... Give it a good think... And if you're lucky, you'll live happily just thinking about it instead of dying young and miserable in front of 45 servers... :-)
I finished high school
Got a job as tech support in an ISP
Told them I knew a bit about unix because I just knew about Linux and installed it to see what this was
Got promoted to Senior Sys Admin and there I was sitting, all alone in front of 45 servers including Irix, Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NT/2000 and Novell and I was also doing network, vpn, firewall and pretty much everything that was new and that no one was able to handle. Learned by myself for 4 years and now, I can say that I'm pretty good at it.
But then, I'm also not having a life at all, doing 24/7 support for the servers, having to travel all around the province, the states and even country to do networks connections, set up servers, and all that.
Believe me, it's nowhere near a life... But then again, I was doing 65K/year + bonus for 24/7 support, all expenses paid by the employer, and I only finished high school....
Good luck, but give it a good think. And if you still want to do it, give it a good think. And if you still want to do it,