First of all, for the articles' author to moan about SpamAssassin's accuracy when he's using an ancient version (2.44 as opposed to 2.60) is a bit rich.
Secondly, yes it does take a bit longer to set up than other systems, but I find it's well worth it in the end
At home, I have a Mandrake 9.2 based mail gateway set up that uses Fetchmail + Qmail + Qmail-Scanner + ClamAV + SpamAssassin + CourierIMAP. I set this up from scratch in less than a day to replace an ageing machine that died (that includes building the machine from scratch). The system periodically downloads all my mail from the various email accounts I have, which I then access from Outlook using IMAP.
The trick I've used is to provide an 'Unfiltered' maildir that I can move mail into that SpamAssassin has missed. Once a day, a simple cron job performs an 'sa-learn -spam' operation on these items.
Overall, I've only ever had two false positives in all the time I've used SpamAssassin (which is well over two years now). Considering I receive well over 500 spam emails a day, this is an excellent record. I can't recommend SpamAssassin highly enough.
My beef is with the amount of time I've spent setting up a spam filtering solution for my family at home - with the nature of a lot of the spam that gets sent to me, it scares me that my daughter will one day have an email address of her own.
I currently have a fairly robust system - qmail, qmail-scanner, clamav, spamassassin - that seems to do the trick, and manages to drop 99.99% of the spam I receive.
Mail that has been identified as Spam gets dropped into an IMAP folder so I can do a cursory check once a day to see if any false positives have been caught (2 in the past 6 months - but in both cases it would have been fairly disastrous if I'd missed them).
But why in hell should I have to jump through so many hoops to get an email service that's workable?
Since this morning, my system has had to deal with over 300 spam emails and 500 instances of Worm.Gibe.F - if things carry on the way they are at the moment it won't be long before people start ditching their email accounts
When I was in high school (~7-10 years ago), we had Pepsi machines, and the school sold Taco Bell and McDonald's food on certain days of the week. Not to mention that Little Debbies snacks had the in-road on the grade schools.
McDonalds sell food? Is that what it's supposed to be?
Seriously though, you don't have a problem with blatant commercial advertising in schools?
Principal Skinner: We can buy real periodic tables, instead of these promotional ones from Oscar Mayer.
Edna Krabapple: Now, who can tell me the atomic weight of bolonium?
Martin: Ohhh... delicious?
Edna Krabapple: Correct. I would also accept snacktacular.
I know I've already posted a comment on this story, but I just remembered something that's quite pertinant.
Remember Marilyn Mansons' essay about the blame he was being landed with over the Columbine incident? The last paragraph says everything...
I think that the National Rifle Association is far too powerful to take on, so most people choose Doom, The Basketball Diaries or yours truly. This kind of controversy does not help me sell records or tickets, and I wouldn't want it to. I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue -- it's been happening every day for a long time.
I know he's a bit of a dickhead at times, but he does make a very good point. (And yes, I do realise this case has nothing to do with guns...)
'Whatever happened [in JoLynn's death], it was not murder,'
Oh really? <sarcasm>What the hell was it then? A frag?</sarcasm>
Just because I played Super Mario x doesn't mean I go around jumping on other peoples pet turtles!
<soapbox>Murder is murder is murder. Unless you can honestly claim he was acting in self defense ("She was gonna get me with her BFG..."), then he committed murder and should be sentenced as such. Period. And IMHO, this lawyer should be struck off for trying to trivialise the actions of this person by insisting that videogames are to blame</soapbox>
Yeah, the character you played was (IIRC) G.I. ANT (groan) - I never quite worked out how pushing dominoes over was ever going get get packets of crisps back for a the frankly bizzare Colin Curly, but hey... The puzzles were quite cool though.
Back in 1992, Ocean Software released a game on the Amiga and PC in conjunction with Smiths Crisps in the UK to promote Quavers, that tied in with their current Lenny Henry voiced mascot Colin Curly. The game wasn't a half bad puzzler either.
Much of the spam I receive at the moment is highly pornographic - not a problem for me, but I have a two year old daughter. In a couple of years, she'll be using the 'net (albeit from behind some kind of transparent filtering proxy); how would you feel if your child was being sent pornographic mail?
OK, so I'll be closely monitoring her email account when I set one up for her, but why should I have to do this? It's not as though I have to open every envelope sent to her through the post.
...and no one likes people who don't read the question.
How exactly are you proposing to bind one keyboard/mouse pair to one monitor using XP? Are you suggesting that different users could be logged in to different displays at the same time?
The fact that the site refuses to talk to anything other than IE is a product of piss-poor development (and/or deployment), not the platform.
It does suprise me that your complaints have fallen on deaf ears though, especially since I guess all they need to do is enable Basic Authentication in the virtual server properties along with NTLM Authentication.
I have to take this article with a pinch of salt - I know it's hardly empirical evidence, but almost every developer I know is not installing Linux over Windows, rather they're dual-booting their systems to run both Linux and Windows. Maybe this will change in the long run, but I doubt the swing will have been made by 2004.
I'd love to believe what he says, but it doesn't quite ring true from my own personal experience.
IMHO, the ultimate 6502 based home computer had to be the BBC Micro; those of us educated in the UK during the 80's will almost certainly remember these ubiquitous machines sitting in virtally every computer lab in every school up and down the country.
One of the great things about this system was that it's BASIC interpreter contained a full 6502 assembler, and they produced some excellent documentation. Check out the Advanced User Guide from The BBC Lives! site. For my money, you couldn;t get a better start to 6502 development.
If this alumnus was proposing that the funds were reliant on the College only using Microsoft products, and not to use software from any other source, would you think it sensible or fair? Of course you wouldn't - likewise, any deal that deliberately excludes any player (no matter how reviled) should be politely declined.
Oh come on - are you implying that everything that has come out of Redmond is crap? Look, I know they're the evil empire, but blanket statements like that are just stupid.
Many moons ago, I used to work as a BOFH^H^H^H^H tech for a technical college. A PC had died in one of the labs, and being pressed for time, I started work on the machine while a lecture was in progress.
The lecuture finished without incident, but unfortunately I was left with a crowd of interested 17 year olds watching what I was doing, and one lad who was desperately trying to prove to his peers that he was a guru.
"It's a virus" - no it's not - "Check the BIOS" - why??? - "Do a FDISK/MBR" - Sod off and die...
So anyway, there's this gimp annoying the hell out of me, and I need a way of getting him away from me, so put a pound coin on the table beside me and said:
"You know the shop just down the road, opposite the pub?"
"Yep"
"Do me a favour; nip down there and buy me half a dozen eggs." Wait for blank look to take over luser's face; "And when you come back, you can teach me to suck them..."
Exit one deflated ego; cruel possibly, but it made me smile
I recently started suffering from severe pain in my left hand, below the thumb, whenever I used my keyboard, and to a lesser extent in my right (mousing) hand as well.
I convinced my boss to buy me two MS Multimedia Natural Keyboards (one for work, and one for home where I also work two days a week).
After about a week of getting used to the split keyboard, and the annoying positioning of the Insert key, my typing speed is back to what it used to be on 'normal' keyboards, but more importantly the pain has completely disappeared.
I know the parent post was about the iGesture, but from what I'm lead to believe it's keyboards and posture that do the most damage.
Er, I think you probably mean 1k; you had to add the RAM pack to get 16k. Anyone else here remember just touching the RAM pack could cause the ZX81 to reset? Ahhh, those were the days...
Most of the time, we're lucky if we ever get contact with the client before the Sales department have agreed completely unfeasible project specifications, and equally unfeasible deadlines.
In the cases where we do get involved before a project starts, the customer almost always ends up with exactly what they want (and more) - if we're not involved, the customer almost always ends up disappointed and doesn't get half of what he actually wanted.
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First of all, for the articles' author to moan about SpamAssassin's accuracy when he's using an ancient version (2.44 as opposed to 2.60) is a bit rich.
Secondly, yes it does take a bit longer to set up than other systems, but I find it's well worth it in the end
At home, I have a Mandrake 9.2 based mail gateway set up that uses Fetchmail + Qmail + Qmail-Scanner + ClamAV + SpamAssassin + CourierIMAP. I set this up from scratch in less than a day to replace an ageing machine that died (that includes building the machine from scratch). The system periodically downloads all my mail from the various email accounts I have, which I then access from Outlook using IMAP.
The trick I've used is to provide an 'Unfiltered' maildir that I can move mail into that SpamAssassin has missed. Once a day, a simple cron job performs an 'sa-learn -spam' operation on these items.
Overall, I've only ever had two false positives in all the time I've used SpamAssassin (which is well over two years now). Considering I receive well over 500 spam emails a day, this is an excellent record. I can't recommend SpamAssassin highly enough.
I couldn't agree with you more.
My beef is with the amount of time I've spent setting up a spam filtering solution for my family at home - with the nature of a lot of the spam that gets sent to me, it scares me that my daughter will one day have an email address of her own.
I currently have a fairly robust system - qmail, qmail-scanner, clamav, spamassassin - that seems to do the trick, and manages to drop 99.99% of the spam I receive.
Mail that has been identified as Spam gets dropped into an IMAP folder so I can do a cursory check once a day to see if any false positives have been caught (2 in the past 6 months - but in both cases it would have been fairly disastrous if I'd missed them).
But why in hell should I have to jump through so many hoops to get an email service that's workable?
Since this morning, my system has had to deal with over 300 spam emails and 500 instances of Worm.Gibe.F - if things carry on the way they are at the moment it won't be long before people start ditching their email accounts
McDonalds sell food? Is that what it's supposed to be?
Seriously though, you don't have a problem with blatant commercial advertising in schools?
The Canadians are no different to us Brits with regard to 'cheque/check'. As in, "have you checked the signature on that cheque?"
How about Valve including the world famous Victorinox Swiss Army Knife in a future release. I mean, you could even use it as a mini flame thrower!
I know I've already posted a comment on this story, but I just remembered something that's quite pertinant.
Remember Marilyn Mansons' essay about the blame he was being landed with over the Columbine incident? The last paragraph says everything...
I know he's a bit of a dickhead at times, but he does make a very good point. (And yes, I do realise this case has nothing to do with guns...)
Oh really? <sarcasm>What the hell was it then? A frag?</sarcasm>
Just because I played Super Mario x doesn't mean I go around jumping on other peoples pet turtles!
<soapbox>Murder is murder is murder. Unless you can honestly claim he was acting in self defense ("She was gonna get me with her BFG..."), then he committed murder and should be sentenced as such. Period. And IMHO, this lawyer should be struck off for trying to trivialise the actions of this person by insisting that videogames are to blame</soapbox>
Yeah, the character you played was (IIRC) G.I. ANT (groan) - I never quite worked out how pushing dominoes over was ever going get get packets of crisps back for a the frankly bizzare Colin Curly, but hey... The puzzles were quite cool though.
Back in 1992, Ocean Software released a game on the Amiga and PC in conjunction with Smiths Crisps in the UK to promote Quavers, that tied in with their current Lenny Henry voiced mascot Colin Curly. The game wasn't a half bad puzzler either.
Much of the spam I receive at the moment is highly pornographic - not a problem for me, but I have a two year old daughter. In a couple of years, she'll be using the 'net (albeit from behind some kind of transparent filtering proxy); how would you feel if your child was being sent pornographic mail?
OK, so I'll be closely monitoring her email account when I set one up for her, but why should I have to do this? It's not as though I have to open every envelope sent to her through the post.
...and no one likes people who don't read the question.
How exactly are you proposing to bind one keyboard/mouse pair to one monitor using XP? Are you suggesting that different users could be logged in to different displays at the same time?
The fact that the site refuses to talk to anything other than IE is a product of piss-poor development (and/or deployment), not the platform.
It does suprise me that your complaints have fallen on deaf ears though, especially since I guess all they need to do is enable Basic Authentication in the virtual server properties along with NTLM Authentication.
I have to take this article with a pinch of salt - I know it's hardly empirical evidence, but almost every developer I know is not installing Linux over Windows, rather they're dual-booting their systems to run both Linux and Windows. Maybe this will change in the long run, but I doubt the swing will have been made by 2004.
I'd love to believe what he says, but it doesn't quite ring true from my own personal experience.
IMHO, the ultimate 6502 based home computer had to be the BBC Micro; those of us educated in the UK during the 80's will almost certainly remember these ubiquitous machines sitting in virtally every computer lab in every school up and down the country.
One of the great things about this system was that it's BASIC interpreter contained a full 6502 assembler, and they produced some excellent documentation. Check out the Advanced User Guide from The BBC Lives! site. For my money, you couldn;t get a better start to 6502 development.
If this alumnus was proposing that the funds were reliant on the College only using Microsoft products, and not to use software from any other source, would you think it sensible or fair? Of course you wouldn't - likewise, any deal that deliberately excludes any player (no matter how reviled) should be politely declined.
Evangelise, Explain, Educate but don't Exclude
Oh come on - are you implying that everything that has come out of Redmond is crap? Look, I know they're the evil empire, but blanket statements like that are just stupid.
Many moons ago, I used to work as a BOFH^H^H^H^H tech for a technical college. A PC had died in one of the labs, and being pressed for time, I started work on the machine while a lecture was in progress.
The lecuture finished without incident, but unfortunately I was left with a crowd of interested 17 year olds watching what I was doing, and one lad who was desperately trying to prove to his peers that he was a guru.
"It's a virus" - no it's not - "Check the BIOS" - why??? - "Do a FDISK /MBR" - Sod off and die...
So anyway, there's this gimp annoying the hell out of me, and I need a way of getting him away from me, so put a pound coin on the table beside me and said:
"You know the shop just down the road, opposite the pub?"
"Yep"
"Do me a favour; nip down there and buy me half a dozen eggs." Wait for blank look to take over luser's face; "And when you come back, you can teach me to suck them..."
Exit one deflated ego; cruel possibly, but it made me smile
s/Laetitia Casta/Vanessa Paradis/
Phwoar!
I recently started suffering from severe pain in my left hand, below the thumb, whenever I used my keyboard, and to a lesser extent in my right (mousing) hand as well.
I convinced my boss to buy me two MS Multimedia Natural Keyboards (one for work, and one for home where I also work two days a week).
After about a week of getting used to the split keyboard, and the annoying positioning of the Insert key, my typing speed is back to what it used to be on 'normal' keyboards, but more importantly the pain has completely disappeared.
I know the parent post was about the iGesture, but from what I'm lead to believe it's keyboards and posture that do the most damage.
No, I'm a frayed knot
So how do they flood the market? Do we assume that the motors would crash, thus causing a Kitchen Flood of Death?
Er, I think you probably mean 1k; you had to add the RAM pack to get 16k. Anyone else here remember just touching the RAM pack could cause the ZX81 to reset? Ahhh, those were the days...
Most of the time, we're lucky if we ever get contact with the client before the Sales department have agreed completely unfeasible project specifications, and equally unfeasible deadlines.
In the cases where we do get involved before a project starts, the customer almost always ends up with exactly what they want (and more) - if we're not involved, the customer almost always ends up disappointed and doesn't get half of what he actually wanted.
Just think along the lines of a 'communal ride'
What, you'd let David Lynch at Dune Messiah after shredding the original Dune? Dude, you've got to be sick in the head.