I know others have already commented on this, but to quote from the IE6 "About Internet Explorer" dialog (emphasis mine):
Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
Well, I've got a Sony CDX-R3300 in my car, which plays MP3 files off shiny round things.
It's a great unit; however, as it doesn't handle OGG files, I'm still using MP3 as my file format du jour.
As an aside, it's probably one of the best purchases I've ever made for my car (I'm no petrolhead - as far as I'm concerned it's a box that gets me from A to B). I have a two hour commute to work, and so having several albums encoded onto one CD is a godsend. Coupled with the steering wheel controls, I never have to take my eyes off the road to switch album, change to radio reception, switch to Radio 4 to get that annoying Chris Moyles twat off...
I take it you're referring to PuTTY? Unfortuately you're incorrect; PuTTY does support X forwarding. Have a look at the Connection > SSH > Tunnels options.
I quite often have a Cygwin X server running in the background and use PuTTY to connect to remote systems with X11 forwarding enabled.
Of course, if I've misunderstood you I apologise; I'm ill but I'm too bored to stay in bed
"Richard Cunningham" more than likely isn't his real name; he won't say one way or another
And on page two:
"They are nothing more than kooky Net trolls out to profit and glorify themselves off a so-called problem more so than actually attempting to fix the so-called problem," he said. "They do not scare me, and the likes of them are cowards hiding behind a computer screen."
The one that I loved the other day was listening to Eddie Mair on PM interviewing the Sudanese Ambassador to the UK, Dr Hasan Abdin.
In the interview, Dr Abdin continually denied there was any humanitarian disaster happening in the Darfur region of Sudan, any government arming of the Janjaweed and so on.
Eddie then calmly said to the Ambassador: "Mr Ambassador, do you sleep well at night?".
Priceless; I've never heard such a pompous arsehole deflated in such spectacular form before. In fact, I think we need to start a new campaign - Eddie Mair for PM!
Well, the BBC do show Dr. Who regularly - every Saturday and Sunday morning on UK Gold (which as part of the UK TV network is jointly owned by the BBC and Flextech Television).
I've been happily re-enjoying the Tom Baker years for the past few months, although we're now into the Peter Davison tenure so things are starting to go downhill. I'll stop watching again as soon as Bonnie 'Annoying Twat' Langford makes her appearance (much as I did the first time around).
You're in a rather unusual situation. It sounds like your provider allows you to receive email but provides no facility for you to send it.
Not that unusual; I know of a fair number of small companies with similar setups.
Putting aside your own situation for one moment, do you think that it is better to have global email sender authentication or allow domain hosting companies to provide half an email solution?
Obviously, it's better to have some form of global email sender authentication; the problem as I see it is that there are too many components to this system that are potentially out of end users control (how many small companies have direct control of their DNS records, and more importantly, how many would actually know how to set up the SPF record correctly?)
I sincerely hope that my worries are proved wrong. There's one thing for certain, there has to be a solution to the spammers out there - I'm just not sure if this is it.
Yes, but 'changing providers' isn't really an option - unless anyone out there can recommend a provider that supplies domain hosting for 50 quid bi-annually, with ASP.NET.
If I don't include an SPF record for my domain, how long (assuming SPF does reach critical mass soon) before mail servers start automatically rejecting/weighting heavily as spam?
OK, I'm worried; unless I've completely missed something here, it seems as though the 'little guy' could get hit quite badly by SPF.
Let me explain; my domain is handled by a hosting provider here in the UK. Because I don't have a static IP address (and also because I don't want the hassle of handling a publicly visible SMTP server), I've set up a single mailbox with the hosting provider that acts as a catch-all account.
Locally, behind my firewall, I use fetchmail to retrieve the contents of this account, and I use qmail to distribute the mail into various IMAP folders; naturally I'm also using ClamAV and SpamAssassin as well.
All well and good, but the problem is that my domain hosting provider does not allow SMTP relay *at all*. Therefore, I use the SMTP relay service provided by my ADSL provider.
Obviously, neither my local qmail system nor my ADSL providers' SMTP relay will be listed in any SPF records; how will I be able to carry on locally managing my mail without automatically being rejected by SPF-aware mail servers?
There are many ways to use Javascript from within ASP.NET, and no you don't *have* to use the ASP.NET form validator if you don't want to.
Rather than explain it all here, I'd suggest that you get your friend to look at this article for pointers on how to use javascript from within ASP.NET
The CD costs money for users that don't have high-speed Internet access.
And how is that any different to using services like this for those people without broadband access who want to get hold of their favourite Linux distribution?
Personally, I have an old P3-500 box running Mandrake 9.2 (only 'cos that's the distro I'm familiar with) that's hooked up to my ADSL connection.
Firewall services are provided by Shorewall, and I use a combination of fetchmail, qmail, qmail-scanner, spamassassin, clamav, maildrop and courier-imap to clean my incoming mail.
On my Windows XP boxes, I use Norton AntiVirus 2004, and Spybot - Search and Destroy.
All in all, I find this reaches a decent balance between functionality and security, and I've never had a single instance of an intrusion into my home network.
I fully agree with you on this; I too remember the days when the internet wasn't commercialised, and the days when you could use your email address on Usenet without any fear of being hammered by spam five seconds later.
I also agree that something needs to be done, but I can't see how SMTP itself can simply be 'abandoned'. There's too much software out there that uses SMTP, there are too many companies out there who would simply baulk at the idea of dropping their existing mail servers and taking on protocol X. For geeks like us, fine, we'll hack protocol X into QMail, Procmail, whatever, but it's not an option for many companies out there. Not to mention the education effort that would have to be made to convince Joe Blow user to switch.
There has to be a way to get rid of this scum, but I've yet to think of a practical (or legal!) way of stopping spammers from doing what they do.
This is turning into a rant, and I didn't mean it to, but I've got to get this off my chest!
The thing that really pisses me off is that it makes me want to keep my kids away from the internet, not let them embrace it. OK, at the moment they're both far too young (my eldest is not yet three years), but it's not going to be long before she will be able to use the family PC; now seeing how offensive spam emails have exploded over the last year or so, how bad is it going to be in the near future?
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I know others have already commented on this, but to quote from the IE6 "About Internet Explorer" dialog (emphasis mine):
Well, I've got a Sony CDX-R3300 in my car, which plays MP3 files off shiny round things.
It's a great unit; however, as it doesn't handle OGG files, I'm still using MP3 as my file format du jour.
As an aside, it's probably one of the best purchases I've ever made for my car (I'm no petrolhead - as far as I'm concerned it's a box that gets me from A to B). I have a two hour commute to work, and so having several albums encoded onto one CD is a godsend. Coupled with the steering wheel controls, I never have to take my eyes off the road to switch album, change to radio reception, switch to Radio 4 to get that annoying Chris Moyles twat off...
IIRC, MSAV was nothing more than a rebadged Central Point Anti-Virus (CPAV) that was bundled with MS-DOS 6.2
I take it you're referring to PuTTY? Unfortuately you're incorrect; PuTTY does support X forwarding. Have a look at the Connection > SSH > Tunnels options.
I quite often have a Cygwin X server running in the background and use PuTTY to connect to remote systems with X11 forwarding enabled.
Of course, if I've misunderstood you I apologise; I'm ill but I'm too bored to stay in bed
... how long before the US Secret Service gets served a writ by the RIAA for damages related to the use of the Mission Impossible theme tune? ;)
You mean stuff like this or this?
It's (almost) happened already; the glorious Ether Song by the Turin Brakes has the title track embedded at the end of track 12 (Rain City).
On page one of the article:
And on page two:
If he ain't scared, why hide behind a false name?
Mod parent down as ogre^H^H^H^H^H troll
The one that I loved the other day was listening to Eddie Mair on PM interviewing the Sudanese Ambassador to the UK, Dr Hasan Abdin.
In the interview, Dr Abdin continually denied there was any humanitarian disaster happening in the Darfur region of Sudan, any government arming of the Janjaweed and so on.
Eddie then calmly said to the Ambassador: "Mr Ambassador, do you sleep well at night?".
Priceless; I've never heard such a pompous arsehole deflated in such spectacular form before. In fact, I think we need to start a new campaign - Eddie Mair for PM!
Well, the BBC do show Dr. Who regularly - every Saturday and Sunday morning on UK Gold (which as part of the UK TV network is jointly owned by the BBC and Flextech Television).
I've been happily re-enjoying the Tom Baker years for the past few months, although we're now into the Peter Davison tenure so things are starting to go downhill. I'll stop watching again as soon as Bonnie 'Annoying Twat' Langford makes her appearance (much as I did the first time around).
Not that unusual; I know of a fair number of small companies with similar setups.
Obviously, it's better to have some form of global email sender authentication; the problem as I see it is that there are too many components to this system that are potentially out of end users control (how many small companies have direct control of their DNS records, and more importantly, how many would actually know how to set up the SPF record correctly?)
I sincerely hope that my worries are proved wrong. There's one thing for certain, there has to be a solution to the spammers out there - I'm just not sure if this is it.
Yes, but 'changing providers' isn't really an option - unless anyone out there can recommend a provider that supplies domain hosting for 50 quid bi-annually, with ASP.NET.
If I don't include an SPF record for my domain, how long (assuming SPF does reach critical mass soon) before mail servers start automatically rejecting/weighting heavily as spam?
That's precisely my concern as well.
OK, I'm worried; unless I've completely missed something here, it seems as though the 'little guy' could get hit quite badly by SPF.
Let me explain; my domain is handled by a hosting provider here in the UK. Because I don't have a static IP address (and also because I don't want the hassle of handling a publicly visible SMTP server), I've set up a single mailbox with the hosting provider that acts as a catch-all account.
Locally, behind my firewall, I use fetchmail to retrieve the contents of this account, and I use qmail to distribute the mail into various IMAP folders; naturally I'm also using ClamAV and SpamAssassin as well.
All well and good, but the problem is that my domain hosting provider does not allow SMTP relay *at all*. Therefore, I use the SMTP relay service provided by my ADSL provider.
Obviously, neither my local qmail system nor my ADSL providers' SMTP relay will be listed in any SPF records; how will I be able to carry on locally managing my mail without automatically being rejected by SPF-aware mail servers?
You seem to forget that before MS-DOS 5.0, Microsoft shipped GWBasic with DOS.
Sorry, you remember incorrectly
There are many ways to use Javascript from within ASP.NET, and no you don't *have* to use the ASP.NET form validator if you don't want to.
Rather than explain it all here, I'd suggest that you get your friend to look at this article for pointers on how to use javascript from within ASP.NET
Damn, why do I never have mod points when I need them? I'd give you +1 Funny for that entry if I could...
Word for Windows jumped from version 2 to version 6, to bring it into line with the DOS version of Word
And how is that any different to using services like this for those people without broadband access who want to get hold of their favourite Linux distribution?
Personally, I have an old P3-500 box running Mandrake 9.2 (only 'cos that's the distro I'm familiar with) that's hooked up to my ADSL connection.
Firewall services are provided by Shorewall, and I use a combination of fetchmail, qmail, qmail-scanner, spamassassin, clamav, maildrop and courier-imap to clean my incoming mail.
On my Windows XP boxes, I use Norton AntiVirus 2004, and Spybot - Search and Destroy.
All in all, I find this reaches a decent balance between functionality and security, and I've never had a single instance of an intrusion into my home network.
I fully agree with you on this; I too remember the days when the internet wasn't commercialised, and the days when you could use your email address on Usenet without any fear of being hammered by spam five seconds later.
I also agree that something needs to be done, but I can't see how SMTP itself can simply be 'abandoned'. There's too much software out there that uses SMTP, there are too many companies out there who would simply baulk at the idea of dropping their existing mail servers and taking on protocol X. For geeks like us, fine, we'll hack protocol X into QMail, Procmail, whatever, but it's not an option for many companies out there. Not to mention the education effort that would have to be made to convince Joe Blow user to switch.
There has to be a way to get rid of this scum, but I've yet to think of a practical (or legal!) way of stopping spammers from doing what they do.
This is turning into a rant, and I didn't mean it to, but I've got to get this off my chest!
The thing that really pisses me off is that it makes me want to keep my kids away from the internet, not let them embrace it. OK, at the moment they're both far too young (my eldest is not yet three years), but it's not going to be long before she will be able to use the family PC; now seeing how offensive spam emails have exploded over the last year or so, how bad is it going to be in the near future?
Bollocks. Here in the UK, potato is spelt - wait for it - potato.
I know it's not directly relevant to the question, but FWIW the rather excellent Freedom Force uses Python as its scripting language.