No, we're definitely not the majority. We are the happy minority who are willing to face corporate prejudice and derision from microsofties in order to get the word out that there is an alternative, and it's pretty bloody good too. I'm just glad there's a place like SlashDot where we can all get together and have a bitch;-)
UNIX has been around for a decade longer than even the earliest efforts from MS and it still works really nicely. Perhaps MS just have to bite the bullet sometime and abandon some of those old layers. I was hoping.NET would be a fresh start but it turns out to be yet another layer on top of the Win32 API. Shame.
Nah, fuck that, I'd rather invest in software that's not crawling with security holes. MS's big problem is the need for security is at direct odds with their extensibility and useability focuses. They have bundled their dirty little scripting language into all sorts of places applications, giving attackers a wide breadth of choice for deployment of scription viruses e.g. all office products, wscript/cscript for commandline work, and Outlook (what were they thinking?).
Their desire to enable all sorts of program functionality to be controlled through COM and scripting programs means that a virus can now do just about anything you could, and do it faster too. If they want to really nail down the OS they're going to have to start disabling these services, or let users do it for them.
Being designed to do something is no use if it doesn't actually get used for that. I know you can host your own servers in-house, but you (the admin) still have to hunt down all the non-MS patches yourself. RedHat does this for you:-)
The reason I participate in online discussions and activities is to meet like minded people outside of my local area. My interests are pretty specialised, even in a modern technological society, and that means a vastly reduced chance of anyone in my locality having the same interests. The beauty of the net is that locality is not what's important, it's shared interest.
NVidia don't make money *selling* video drivers, but by selling video cards. It's in their best interests to make sure they have a card that supports all the needs of their market to prevent those users from defecting to another card manufacturer. I'd say there is a high percentage of gamers who buy the latest cards at first release prices and who also run Linux (me for instance). These guys mights be tempted to go ATI if the performance figures are relatively the same but ATI sorts out good Linux driver support (preferably open source too).
I wouldn't want a shiftless and lazy client, they're the absolutely worst to deal with. Let them go to someone else I say. Any client that can't even hit the reply button on their email client once is not worth the trouble of dealing with.
You should try this shit before dismissing it so casually. My spam problem has gone from being intolerable (20-30 / day) to just one spam message in the last 2 months thanks to TMDA.
I whitelisted all my buddies and people who I have mailed previously so they can't even tell I use it. I added my mailing lists in there as well so they're unaffected. I set up the SMTP proxy so anyone who I mail to will automatically get whitelisted. There have been two occassions in the last two montsh where someone failed to reply to a challenge, I checked my pending pile - found their mail, released it and then whitelisted them. Easy. Now I don't even check my pending pile because it is almost exclusively spam.
Hollywood has a long history of creepy old men molesting much younger women on screen. Woody Allen is just one such leech. Let's not forget Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and a cast of other standard issue Hollywood icons that just won't go away. It's a double standard that they can keep trotting out the same old men each year but as soon as a women is over 30 it's time to retire her. Honestly, some of the "love scenes" you can tell the actress is repelled by the guy and just doing what amounts to filmed prostitution.
You're not reading the credits right if you haven't noticed how large the programming teams are becoming. Artists don't need the dev boxes, nor designers, etc, but every programmer does. For instance NWN had a team of up to 22 programmers (see http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20021204/grieg_p fv.htm). Quake III had 7 programmers, Unreall II also had 7.
No, but it would be expensive compared to using off the shelf products. The XBox has no video capture card, so once that cost is added in, and the cost of keyboard and mouse and dongles for the weird USB parts you have a machine that is more expensive to put together than a dirt cheap system you could assemble yourself.
Let's not forget the developers often need to buy special development hardware too. I was looking into this for 3DO and it was something like 20,000USD each developer (IIRC). Get a team of 10 developers together and it's just cost you 200,000USD.
I'll be bringing wirecutters, crowbar and whatever else I need to rip that sucker out and cart it home at the end of the festival. A free PC, LCD and wireless keyboard...who could resist nabbing that when people can't even stop themselves ripping off the loo paper.
This is one machine you don't want to catch a virus off.
The big spammers send millions of emails per day. You would need an army of teenagers to man the reponse desk, and you can bet they'd all be stoned all surfing the web for porn instead. This is moot anyway since spammers don't actually provide return email addresses.
TMDA utlises shortlived email addresses for this purpose. It will create an email alias that anyone can send to...but just for x (5 for example) days. Give this to the company as you sign up and you will receive their confirmations. You can either leave it like that and then 5 days later they can't spam you, or whitelist them and give them your permanent address.
I didn't check my pending folder for two weeks and found 450 emails in it 8-0 Half of them were spam and most of the rest were from the only casualty of my use of TMDA, BugTraq. Unlike many mailing lists BugTraq doesn't set itself as the originator of the email, so all the emails appears to come from individuals who I haven't whitelisted. It's too onerous to keep checking the pending list for this one mailing list, so I have moved it further up in my procmail handling and deliver all mail *addressed to* BugTraq straight into my security folder. Problem solved.
I've had good experiences with using this sort of software (TMDA). It creates a onetime reply address, so it doesn't matter what the user does to the subject and body, it is still a valid email reply. As to spammers just auto-replying, generally they don't provide a valid reply-to address (never in my experience) so they never even receive the original challenge.
I also use TMDA and I can tell you it has vastly reduced the amount of spam I receive from approximately 20-30/day to 1 in the last two months. I've never been happier;-)
Whitelisting is important, and easy too. Just export your address book to a text file and copy the results to your whitelist (which is also text).
It's worth noting that you can also auto-whitelist anyone you send mail to by using their nifty little mail proxy. It sits and proxies for SMTP and adds all outgoing mail automatically to your whitelist, so whoever you sent that resume to will never see a challenge...neat!
So, am I to understand that you have read every line of source code for your OS, browser, email client, comnmand shell or are you just fscking stupid too?
Unless you have read the code, then it's no more visible to you than the closed source equivalent. Sure, you can *assume* someone else has read it and thinks it's great, but you have still not taken personal responsiblity.
I don't think that argument will swing in a court of law. The only good thing about the suit is that it will be carried out in Korea and therefore will not be useable as a precedent for cases in the US.
GPL software will not be treated as any different to commercial software since it is still a "product". Whether you charge for it or not is not an issue e.g. say you won a competition and received a child's toy as a price, which your baby then choked to death on...you could still sue the company for making an unsafe toy even though they didn't sell it to you. Hell, you can sue a company for making coffee that's too hot, even though it doesn't say on the cup to put the coffee between your legs and drive like an idiot until you spill it on yourself.
I would be very concerned if something like this was won in a US/European court of law.
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But who wants to buy a business that is losing 1 million USD / day? Even if they gave it to me I don't think I could afford the daily upkeep ;-)
No, we're definitely not the majority. We are the happy minority who are willing to face corporate prejudice and derision from microsofties in order to get the word out that there is an alternative, and it's pretty bloody good too. I'm just glad there's a place like SlashDot where we can all get together and have a bitch ;-)
UNIX has been around for a decade longer than even the earliest efforts from MS and it still works really nicely. Perhaps MS just have to bite the bullet sometime and abandon some of those old layers. I was hoping .NET would be a fresh start but it turns out to be yet another layer on top of the Win32 API. Shame.
Their desire to enable all sorts of program functionality to be controlled through COM and scripting programs means that a virus can now do just about anything you could, and do it faster too. If they want to really nail down the OS they're going to have to start disabling these services, or let users do it for them.
Being designed to do something is no use if it doesn't actually get used for that. I know you can host your own servers in-house, but you (the admin) still have to hunt down all the non-MS patches yourself. RedHat does this for you :-)
The reason I participate in online discussions and activities is to meet like minded people outside of my local area. My interests are pretty specialised, even in a modern technological society, and that means a vastly reduced chance of anyone in my locality having the same interests. The beauty of the net is that locality is not what's important, it's shared interest.
NVidia don't make money *selling* video drivers, but by selling video cards. It's in their best interests to make sure they have a card that supports all the needs of their market to prevent those users from defecting to another card manufacturer. I'd say there is a high percentage of gamers who buy the latest cards at first release prices and who also run Linux (me for instance). These guys mights be tempted to go ATI if the performance figures are relatively the same but ATI sorts out good Linux driver support (preferably open source too).
I wouldn't want a shiftless and lazy client, they're the absolutely worst to deal with. Let them go to someone else I say. Any client that can't even hit the reply button on their email client once is not worth the trouble of dealing with.
I whitelisted all my buddies and people who I have mailed previously so they can't even tell I use it. I added my mailing lists in there as well so they're unaffected. I set up the SMTP proxy so anyone who I mail to will automatically get whitelisted. There have been two occassions in the last two montsh where someone failed to reply to a challenge, I checked my pending pile - found their mail, released it and then whitelisted them. Easy. Now I don't even check my pending pile because it is almost exclusively spam.
Hollywood has a long history of creepy old men molesting much younger women on screen. Woody Allen is just one such leech. Let's not forget Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, and a cast of other standard issue Hollywood icons that just won't go away. It's a double standard that they can keep trotting out the same old men each year but as soon as a women is over 30 it's time to retire her. Honestly, some of the "love scenes" you can tell the actress is repelled by the guy and just doing what amounts to filmed prostitution.
You're not reading the credits right if you haven't noticed how large the programming teams are becoming. Artists don't need the dev boxes, nor designers, etc, but every programmer does. For instance NWN had a team of up to 22 programmers (see http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20021204/grieg_p fv.htm). Quake III had 7 programmers, Unreall II also had 7.
No, but it would be expensive compared to using off the shelf products. The XBox has no video capture card, so once that cost is added in, and the cost of keyboard and mouse and dongles for the weird USB parts you have a machine that is more expensive to put together than a dirt cheap system you could assemble yourself.
Let's not forget the developers often need to buy special development hardware too. I was looking into this for 3DO and it was something like 20,000USD each developer (IIRC). Get a team of 10 developers together and it's just cost you 200,000USD.
This is one machine you don't want to catch a virus off.
Finally a place where I can shit, piss, jerk off and look at porn without the wife catching me...I want one now.
It's a textfile...how about you type their email address in and save the file?
The big spammers send millions of emails per day. You would need an army of teenagers to man the reponse desk, and you can bet they'd all be stoned all surfing the web for porn instead. This is moot anyway since spammers don't actually provide return email addresses.
TMDA utlises shortlived email addresses for this purpose. It will create an email alias that anyone can send to...but just for x (5 for example) days. Give this to the company as you sign up and you will receive their confirmations. You can either leave it like that and then 5 days later they can't spam you, or whitelist them and give them your permanent address.
I didn't check my pending folder for two weeks and found 450 emails in it 8-0 Half of them were spam and most of the rest were from the only casualty of my use of TMDA, BugTraq. Unlike many mailing lists BugTraq doesn't set itself as the originator of the email, so all the emails appears to come from individuals who I haven't whitelisted. It's too onerous to keep checking the pending list for this one mailing list, so I have moved it further up in my procmail handling and deliver all mail *addressed to* BugTraq straight into my security folder. Problem solved.
I've had good experiences with using this sort of software (TMDA). It creates a onetime reply address, so it doesn't matter what the user does to the subject and body, it is still a valid email reply. As to spammers just auto-replying, generally they don't provide a valid reply-to address (never in my experience) so they never even receive the original challenge.
Whitelisting is important, and easy too. Just export your address book to a text file and copy the results to your whitelist (which is also text).
It's worth noting that you can also auto-whitelist anyone you send mail to by using their nifty little mail proxy. It sits and proxies for SMTP and adds all outgoing mail automatically to your whitelist, so whoever you sent that resume to will never see a challenge...neat!
P.S. Can't recommend the product enough.
Unless you have read the code, then it's no more visible to you than the closed source equivalent. Sure, you can *assume* someone else has read it and thinks it's great, but you have still not taken personal responsiblity.
GPL software will not be treated as any different to commercial software since it is still a "product". Whether you charge for it or not is not an issue e.g. say you won a competition and received a child's toy as a price, which your baby then choked to death on...you could still sue the company for making an unsafe toy even though they didn't sell it to you. Hell, you can sue a company for making coffee that's too hot, even though it doesn't say on the cup to put the coffee between your legs and drive like an idiot until you spill it on yourself.
I would be very concerned if something like this was won in a US/European court of law.
Can I have all your old Cd's then?
Check the USB ports on the front of the box ;-)