I recently configured a 200 MHz Pentium host (with slow IDE drives etc.) as an ISP's mail server. It handles over 10,000 emails daily and the load average hangs around at 0.10 -- it's using Postfix with the renattach attachment filter as a content filter (catches all those windows viruses). I was pretty impressed that Postfix performed so well on such an ancient machine:)
I now write myself a little note on my CDRs to indicate how much of the surface causes read errors. Nero's "CD Speed" tool is very useful for this, as it has a ScanDisc tool incorporated within it.
When too much of my CD's surface has read errors, I make a new copy of the CDR. So far I've only had to do this for 3 of my discs over the past 6 years or so.
you're apparently not aware that the law requires...
I'm aware of these guidelines, I'm just saying that they don't really have significant impact on what I end up seeing.
But the original issue was one of Canadian TV censorship -- which to me is still pretty funny. For example, our uber-popular comedy Trailer Park Boys is coming to the US, except they're going to have to censor the show for American viewers. (There's lots of drug use and swearing on the show). There's obviously more censorship in the US than in Canada. Superbowl boobies?
Are you kidding me? I live in Canada and all I see is American content -- radio stations are full of American music, television is all American shows, and the products we buy are all American. Where's the censorship? It's obviously not working.
We're slashdot geeks, so we're probably often in the position to help set up other peoples' PCs. Here's my advice:
Install an OS that has privilege separation by uid: NT-class (NT4, 2000, XP), Mac OS X, *NIX
Ensure the disk volume respects user permissions: this means NTFS, not FAT!!!
Put users in regular user accounts, not admin accounts
Apply security updates and shut off unnecessary services.
Keeping users separated is incredibly important. In our student computer lab, there used to be a Windows 98 machine that was just a wreck due to all the shit running on it, no user separation. On the other hand, the NT4 machine we installed still runs great to this day -- even though it's not really up to date security wise, it's still nearly impossible for software to leak from one user account to another.
Please remind me, what major benefit does it bring us (the Linux community) if there are big companies involved with Linux? Seems to me we did a pretty good job with hobby programmers and academics for a long time... of course IBM did help, oops but then there's that SCO crap... but what I'm getting at is, why do we need to impress anyone?
Re:There's spam, then there's the partner in crime
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Believe me, this sort of problem is all over the place.
Except telemarketing calls go over telephone trunks that behave properly (to specification and without flaws), and the car accidents also happen with cars that don't have any major flaws or design problems.
On the other hand, spam is arriving through Windows hosts compromised because they are running faulty software. There are so many bugs in the OS and 'integrated' components (IE, Outlook) that it has gotten ridiculous. The product is flawed and broken, unlike your telecom example and unlike the cars that are involved in accidents. You see how this is differenT?
There's spam, then there's the partner in crime
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I point the finger at Microsoft, partner in crime of spam.
Why? Trust me, I know spam to the tune of 10,000 spams daily collected at my distributed spamtraps. Overwhelming, spam is arriving through Windows hosts on broadband connections. Ask any mail admin this and they'll tell you the same.
It's not because it's broadband; it's because Windows machines are so goddam easy to compromise remotely and execute code on. Just today there was a big patch released for 20 major flaws, of which 8 can lead to remote code execution. It's time we stop shrugging off as spam and realize that Microsoft is responsible for the flood of spam we get today. The flaws in their software will be exploited X days from now in the next automated worm zombie-bot.
Anti-spammers have been doing a great job putting the pressure on spam-friendly ISPs (spamhauses, etc.). We can stop those jerks from hosting spammers. But Windows users, hell, they're everywhere. So it's time Microsoft is forced to take responsibility for causing a worldwide menace with their product. It's in their power to fix (don't let them try to sell you a spam solution... hell, they created the problem).
People are realizing that there are lots of apps using wxWidgets, it's just not very apparent because... well, it looks like native GUIs for the platforms. Which is good! BitTorrent uses wx, so does Audacity, Forte Agent...
I personally think blue LEDs are pretty cool, mind you I don't have a ton of fancy electronic gadgets around the house (and I don't own a cell phone).
But what I'm really after are some nice, super bright white LEDs. Does anyone know where I can get them (in small volumes) for cheap? I want to build a lamp for my bicycle.
Fellow Americans, I present to you: our economy. Seriously though, Internet marketers have always been borderline spammers/criminals -- and yet, "we" support them by investing our money in their ventures. Can an economy based on this sort of crap really survive?
Elderly people in developing countries are lacking **human contact**
Elderly people in the first world are lacking human contact! People throw their parents into homes and shrug them off until they're dead. In developing countries, families remain more close-knit and it's common to have the elderly parents living together with the family.
What happens...when so many corporations own patents on so many intangible things
Answer: those of us who stay outside the corporate loops (protesters, academics, hobbiest, vigilantes) continue to do whatever the fsck we want, and develop useful technologies that stay off the radar screen. Corporations rise and fall, they are transitory.
What we need is a system with PGP signatures. That way, a reporter can build a reputation over time.
Oh man, this is an excellent use of public-key crypto (PGP/GPG signatures)! A well-respected reporter, such as Dr. Gwynne Dyer could post his PGP public key on his web site. He could then syndicate his own articles that are PGP signed; no matter how many news 'outlets' these pass through, including Internet-based, the end use could ultimately check the signature and verify that the text has not been modified and that it has originated from the author they expect.
Anyone else get the feeling, all the snorkelers and scuba folk will be swimming along, enjoying the reefs when a fleet of these bloody "SUVs of the sea" show up and start pummeling the reefs and freestyle divers?
I'm a long time software developer who codes predominantly for Windows and UNIX, but because Macs have embraced the UNIX architecture I would now like to start coding for OS X. I personally feel that Mac OS has a much brighter future than Windows (still not sure about Linux desktop).
It would not be a stretch to say that I'm willing to ditch Windows in favour of Linux and Mac OS.
So far, I have found wxWidgets which is a C++ toolset that allows the creation of cross-platform GUIs (Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS) that uses native GUI elements on each platform (unlike GTK+ or Qt which end up looking non-native). To me this seems like the best way for a programmer to get into cross-platform, including Mac, programming. You don't sacrifice Windows compatibility.
Don't get me wrong... Fight Club is one of my favorite movies of all time! I'm just saying, we can easily accept the violence in it but it's amazing how people whine like idiots when they see a tittie, or worse yet, a cock (could you imagine the response?)
Yeah, the violence is nothing to worry about right -- people getting beaten to a pulp (Fight Club), shot through the head, mutilated, etc. -- what damage could that cause to society?
On the other hand, people engaged in various consentual sexual acts, there's nothing dangerous or immoral about this! I'm not saying that violence should be banned either, just that it's bizarre to censor sex and still allow showing people getting their brains blown out.
Absolutely correct! Mod this guy up. The media industries are trying very hard to create the false perception (and they're succeeding) that digital media without rights restrictions ('management') is a non-option. They are wrong. There are plenty of radio stations etc. that stream pure MP3 or OGG, they are within their rights to do so, and anyone who steals the content on the other end is, well, a thief. Shit happens.
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I recently configured a 200 MHz Pentium host (with slow IDE drives etc.) as an ISP's mail server. It handles over 10,000 emails daily and the load average hangs around at 0.10 -- it's using Postfix with the renattach attachment filter as a content filter (catches all those windows viruses). I was pretty impressed that Postfix performed so well on such an ancient machine :)
I now write myself a little note on my CDRs to indicate how much of the surface causes read errors. Nero's "CD Speed" tool is very useful for this, as it has a ScanDisc tool incorporated within it.
When too much of my CD's surface has read errors, I make a new copy of the CDR. So far I've only had to do this for 3 of my discs over the past 6 years or so.
I'm aware of these guidelines, I'm just saying that they don't really have significant impact on what I end up seeing.
But the original issue was one of Canadian TV censorship -- which to me is still pretty funny. For example, our uber-popular comedy Trailer Park Boys is coming to the US, except they're going to have to censor the show for American viewers. (There's lots of drug use and swearing on the show). There's obviously more censorship in the US than in Canada. Superbowl boobies?Are you kidding me? I live in Canada and all I see is American content -- radio stations are full of American music, television is all American shows, and the products we buy are all American. Where's the censorship? It's obviously not working.
Borland has offered free downloads of C++ Builder (and some tools) for quite some time.
Microsoft at the party would probably look something like this
"Pass the dip, guys!"
- Install an OS that has privilege separation by uid: NT-class (NT4, 2000, XP), Mac OS X, *NIX
- Ensure the disk volume respects user permissions: this means NTFS, not FAT!!!
- Put users in regular user accounts, not admin accounts
- Apply security updates and shut off unnecessary services.
Keeping users separated is incredibly important. In our student computer lab, there used to be a Windows 98 machine that was just a wreck due to all the shit running on it, no user separation. On the other hand, the NT4 machine we installed still runs great to this day -- even though it's not really up to date security wise, it's still nearly impossible for software to leak from one user account to another.Please remind me, what major benefit does it bring us (the Linux community) if there are big companies involved with Linux? Seems to me we did a pretty good job with hobby programmers and academics for a long time... of course IBM did help, oops but then there's that SCO crap... but what I'm getting at is, why do we need to impress anyone?
On the other hand, spam is arriving through Windows hosts compromised because they are running faulty software. There are so many bugs in the OS and 'integrated' components (IE, Outlook) that it has gotten ridiculous. The product is flawed and broken, unlike your telecom example and unlike the cars that are involved in accidents. You see how this is differenT?
I point the finger at Microsoft, partner in crime of spam.
Why? Trust me, I know spam to the tune of 10,000 spams daily collected at my distributed spamtraps. Overwhelming, spam is arriving through Windows hosts on broadband connections. Ask any mail admin this and they'll tell you the same.
It's not because it's broadband; it's because Windows machines are so goddam easy to compromise remotely and execute code on. Just today there was a big patch released for 20 major flaws, of which 8 can lead to remote code execution. It's time we stop shrugging off as spam and realize that Microsoft is responsible for the flood of spam we get today. The flaws in their software will be exploited X days from now in the next automated worm zombie-bot.
Anti-spammers have been doing a great job putting the pressure on spam-friendly ISPs (spamhauses, etc.). We can stop those jerks from hosting spammers. But Windows users, hell, they're everywhere. So it's time Microsoft is forced to take responsibility for causing a worldwide menace with their product. It's in their power to fix (don't let them try to sell you a spam solution... hell, they created the problem).
People are realizing that there are lots of apps using wxWidgets, it's just not very apparent because... well, it looks like native GUIs for the platforms. Which is good! BitTorrent uses wx, so does Audacity, Forte Agent...
Half of Engineering is reverse-engineering. And it's not always a bad thing.
I personally think blue LEDs are pretty cool, mind you I don't have a ton of fancy electronic gadgets around the house (and I don't own a cell phone).
But what I'm really after are some nice, super bright white LEDs. Does anyone know where I can get them (in small volumes) for cheap? I want to build a lamp for my bicycle.
Anyone else get the feeling, all the snorkelers and scuba folk will be swimming along, enjoying the reefs when a fleet of these bloody "SUVs of the sea" show up and start pummeling the reefs and freestyle divers?
I'm a long time software developer who codes predominantly for Windows and UNIX, but because Macs have embraced the UNIX architecture I would now like to start coding for OS X. I personally feel that Mac OS has a much brighter future than Windows (still not sure about Linux desktop).
It would not be a stretch to say that I'm willing to ditch Windows in favour of Linux and Mac OS.
So far, I have found wxWidgets which is a C++ toolset that allows the creation of cross-platform GUIs (Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS) that uses native GUI elements on each platform (unlike GTK+ or Qt which end up looking non-native). To me this seems like the best way for a programmer to get into cross-platform, including Mac, programming. You don't sacrifice Windows compatibility.
Don't get me wrong... Fight Club is one of my favorite movies of all time! I'm just saying, we can easily accept the violence in it but it's amazing how people whine like idiots when they see a tittie, or worse yet, a cock (could you imagine the response?)
Yeah, the violence is nothing to worry about right -- people getting beaten to a pulp (Fight Club), shot through the head, mutilated, etc. -- what damage could that cause to society?
On the other hand, people engaged in various consentual sexual acts, there's nothing dangerous or immoral about this! I'm not saying that violence should be banned either, just that it's bizarre to censor sex and still allow showing people getting their brains blown out.