MS wants MS-IE and MS-Outlook(-Express?) used and gives them away
so it can make $$$$$^9 selling the server apps (MS-IIS and MS-Exchange)
and lock out competition by embrace-extend-extinguish.
Why fully render HTML email (a mostrosity that is not supposed to exist, and I purge on sight)?
Suspiciously render what's delivered, and put placeholders for IMG tags. Like in the good ol'days, press "LOAD Images" to see it all". MS has made some very insecure design decisions.
Having lived for a decade inside a corporate firewalls with spotty DNS, I've learned to cope.
If you use a service for important work, you should know at least one of it's IPs. I have a slew inside/etc/hosts (and \WINNT\HOSTS). www.google.com and mail.yahoo.com for sure.
Ah well, better to be on DUL blocks than have ISPs block
port 25. That's coming next.
You're just collateral
damage in the "War on Spam". I am too. Until people start
realizing the amount of false-positives that spam filters
catch, the carpet bombing will continue and still catch One company stopped really quickly when they found
the spam filtering lost some email orders.
I'm surprised
at how unsophisticated some SMTP servers are. They'll take
my mail even when I have the wrong $HOSTNAME set. Yet if
I'm on their DUL, bounces.
NVidia & ATI have large portions of their drivers closed because it's GPU code. No-one has compliers for it but them. They probably don't want to reveal their secrets, and may not even be able to
if some of that code or algorithms have been received under secrecy agreement from others."
All this bandwidth is just wonderful. I don't think the machines can keep up with gigabit. I can't seem to push more than 300Mbit/s across my PCI busses (short bursts, setup overhead).
But never mind. The only current use I can see for all this bandwidth is music and movie sharing. I presume CWR had this in mind when they built-out.
Oh, one small thing: fiber is fragile. The MT or MJ connectors are only good for so many (~50) cycles and are a bitch to replace. RJ45s are good for more and much easier to repunch when worn out.
For crying out loud! Whining like this will kill the Goose
that lays the Golden Eggs. Vid game pricing has been extremely
strong and has enabled the vidgaming industry to surpass movies.
The resale market serves a number of critical functions -- it
support high release prices because many aficionados will get
first-day releases, beat the game and resell. These resales will
capture new game addict^H^H^Hfans.
This is interesting since RMS hasn't really been all that friendly to Linus, or at least, Linux.
First there was the Lignux & GNU/Linux campaign, now RMS positively detests Linus' benign neglect of GPL enforcement vs NVidia.
Of course not out, just expensive.
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Of course oil doesn't just run out -- it just gets more expensive to produce. Especially as the world demands more and more oil, whether from American SUVs or China & India.
The real question is whether the Saudi giant fields Ghawar, Abqaiq and Safaniya can match increased demand or whether they suffer the precipitous production declines seen at Oman Yibal, Alaskan Prudhoe Bay, or North Sea Brent. My guess -- no.
This clearly marks the "Alexis de Tocquville Institute" as a throw-away mouthpiece.
Sensationalism carried a cost in credibility, and this one is egregious.
The problem of keeping a keg of beer cold deserves more
attention. The keg is awkward and heavy when full, and
doesn't need cooling when empty. I'd suggest a Peltier-based
solution.
Take a Peltier from an old computer rig or the
new Coleman fridge. Bolt it with conventional thermal grease
to a sizable (100 cm^2) heat spreader (Al or Cu) machined
to match the barrel curve. Apply temporary heat transfer
compound (KY jelly suggested, ketchup or mustard possible)
and affix to lower quarter of keg with a rubber tie-down.
Insulation is of course important and will size the Peltier.
Sit the keg on a sheet of styrofoam. Wrap keg with sleeping
blankets held in place with pins or masking tape. Use plastic
bag as a vapor barrier after cutting and masking holes for
dispensing piping and peltier intake/exhaust.
The idea
is the beer needs to be cold, not the whole keg. Dispensing,
convection or even conduction within the beer should keep
heat migrating to the Peltier. There is some risk of local
freezing at the Peltier spot.
There isn't some magic box that will make this problem
go away. Actually, there is but you said you don't want
new lines -- fiber!
You can get arrestors for 10base2 and 10base5. These should
be installed on every building, near the electrical service
panel (entrance) and tied to the building electrical ground stake.
I think you still have those with ring-mains.
Use as short and as fat a wire as possible -- impedence matters.
10baseT and 100baseTX should never be run inter-building and
arrestors for it are hard to find. Beware the cute little cubes
in userspace -- they have a long ground return path which presents
high impedence, forcing more of the surge through active components.
Make sure all your computers have three-prong plugs.
Ever since I've had a 32 MB machine (1997), I've not bothered to even set up a swap partition. On the rare occasions when I need swap, I'll create a swapfile. Sure it's slower, but swap is already hugely slow.
With read-only & demand code-page loading and copy-on-write even bloatware really doesn't eat memory. And bloatware has to be frequently restarted to recover the memory it leaks.
Sure, there are some jobs that needs swap -- lots of seldom used memory pages.
But not mine. I prefer to save myself the complexity and performance headaches.
Talk about rejection! Maybe knock her self-esteem? It's worse for women because
the rejection they suffer is usually more passive than the active "no" that men get.
Men often complain that women are too mercenary, yet this reversal seems acceptable.
What goes around, comes around. If guys are nasty to women, women will be mean right back. You want that?
I use a Siemens 2602. I could easily set up a Slack9.1 box to do the same thing, but the electricity consumption, noise, space and admin aren't worth it.
Blocking outbound is an important feature. My kids run MS-Win boxen, and these are sure to get trojanned. One of the nastiest rather quietly acts as a spam relay. AOL (hardly authoritative) has claimed 1/3 of spam inbound is from DHCP broadband. So I'm a responsible netadmin and block outbound 25 from their machines. They get their mail via yahoo anyways.
Now, if my son needs grounding (he hasn't), I may need to find out the AIM ports to block.
I thought about this before cancelling my EV1 account.
Yes, Bob Marsh may have made a justifiable cash-risk-based
business decision. Pay 5 k$/yr or risk 50+ servers in a
licence suit.
But I don't care. I expect the people I support through my
business to act ethically and support my interests when they
don't conflict with theirs. SCO is playing lawsuit roulette,
betting on 000. Despicable. And insupportable irrespective
of financial calcs.
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MS wants MS-IE and MS-Outlook(-Express?) used and gives them away so it can make $$$$$^9 selling the server apps (MS-IIS and MS-Exchange) and lock out competition by embrace-extend-extinguish.
How tough is this?
Suspiciously render what's delivered, and put placeholders for IMG tags. Like in the good ol'days, press "LOAD Images" to see it all". MS has made some very insecure design decisions.
If you use a service for important work, you should know at least one of it's IPs. I have a slew inside /etc/hosts (and \WINNT\HOSTS). www.google.com and mail.yahoo.com for sure.
backup all data (skip if freshly done)
save customizations (/home separate, /usr/local->/home/local, cp -a /etc /home/etc)
run CD install to upgrade
build fresh kernel (optional, you _do_ save /usr/src/linux/.config?)
restore customizations (14 files from /home/etc to /etc, rebuild sensors & NVidia)
No silly Registry, no Apps customizations lost, just go!
You're just collateral damage in the "War on Spam". I am too. Until people start realizing the amount of false-positives that spam filters catch, the carpet bombing will continue and still catch One company stopped really quickly when they found the spam filtering lost some email orders.
I'm surprised at how unsophisticated some SMTP servers are. They'll take my mail even when I have the wrong $HOSTNAME set. Yet if I'm on their DUL, bounces.
But never mind. The only current use I can see for all this bandwidth is music and movie sharing. I presume CWR had this in mind when they built-out.
Oh, one small thing: fiber is fragile. The MT or MJ connectors are only good for so many (~50) cycles and are a bitch to replace. RJ45s are good for more and much easier to repunch when worn out.
A man marries a woman and expects her never to change. She always does.
"
The resale market serves a number of critical functions -- it support high release prices because many aficionados will get first-day releases, beat the game and resell. These resales will capture new game addict^H^H^Hfans.
First there was the Lignux & GNU/Linux campaign, now RMS positively detests Linus' benign neglect of GPL enforcement vs NVidia.
The real question is whether the Saudi giant fields Ghawar, Abqaiq and Safaniya can match increased demand or whether they suffer the precipitous production declines seen at Oman Yibal, Alaskan Prudhoe Bay, or North Sea Brent. My guess -- no.
Take a Peltier from an old computer rig or the new Coleman fridge. Bolt it with conventional thermal grease to a sizable (100 cm^2) heat spreader (Al or Cu) machined to match the barrel curve. Apply temporary heat transfer compound (KY jelly suggested, ketchup or mustard possible) and affix to lower quarter of keg with a rubber tie-down.
Insulation is of course important and will size the Peltier. Sit the keg on a sheet of styrofoam. Wrap keg with sleeping blankets held in place with pins or masking tape. Use plastic bag as a vapor barrier after cutting and masking holes for dispensing piping and peltier intake/exhaust.
The idea is the beer needs to be cold, not the whole keg. Dispensing, convection or even conduction within the beer should keep heat migrating to the Peltier. There is some risk of local freezing at the Peltier spot.
You can get arrestors for 10base2 and 10base5. These should be installed on every building, near the electrical service panel (entrance) and tied to the building electrical ground stake. I think you still have those with ring-mains. Use as short and as fat a wire as possible -- impedence matters.
10baseT and 100baseTX should never be run inter-building and arrestors for it are hard to find. Beware the cute little cubes in userspace -- they have a long ground return path which presents high impedence, forcing more of the surge through active components.
Make sure all your computers have three-prong plugs.
With read-only & demand code-page loading and copy-on-write even bloatware really doesn't eat memory. And bloatware has to be frequently restarted to recover the memory it leaks.
Sure, there are some jobs that needs swap -- lots of seldom used memory pages.
But not mine. I prefer to save myself the complexity and performance headaches.
Men often complain that women are too mercenary, yet this reversal seems acceptable.
What goes around, comes around. If guys are nasty to women, women will be mean right back. You want that?
Cheating isn't smart even if it's never discovered. You'll always know. "We come to hate those we have wronged" [Plutarch?]
Even my FreeBSD uses GNU grep.
Why not `grep -src FIXME /usr/src/linux` ?
Runs quicker and far fewer fork()s.
The amount of TCP a router talks is strictly limited to admin, and that should be isolated via /etc/hosts.allow.
Blocking outbound is an important feature. My kids run MS-Win boxen, and these are sure to get trojanned. One of the nastiest rather quietly acts as a spam relay. AOL (hardly authoritative) has claimed 1/3 of spam inbound is from DHCP broadband. So I'm a responsible netadmin and block outbound 25 from their machines. They get their mail via yahoo anyways.
Now, if my son needs grounding (he hasn't), I may need to find out the AIM ports to block.
But I don't care. I expect the people I support through my business to act ethically and support my interests when they don't conflict with theirs. SCO is playing lawsuit roulette, betting on 000. Despicable. And insupportable irrespective of financial calcs.