Hotmail is since a few months already a lot better already. I received 200+ spam-emails a week on both hotmail-accounts I have, and now it's about 5 each week.
This is _not_ the spamfilter which you can choose to use, but rather a spamfilter valid for all Hotmail users. I don't know what they did, but they should've done this already a few years ago.:)
Really, it sounds stupid maybe, but hotmail has now one of the best spamfilters I know.
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If you like Linux on CD, you may want to check out Morphix. I don't know if there's already a release, but I guess if you ask it on #dutch at irc.chatjunkies.org, you may get a copy.
w00t! now i can finally get my vulcan ears, bajoran nose, klingon forhead and cardassian neck. Hmmz... I wonder where I can find a body of one of those anyway? Ebay maybe?
I live about 5km away and at 11:00 CET I could still see a lot of brown/grey smoke in the air.
frontpage.fok.nl (a dutch news site) reports the following, well at least not the article itself but in a reaction to it:
"The D-wing was recently renovated to make it more 'fireproof', so there are no harmful gasses and such.
Every morning a backup is made from all the data. Unfortunetely, before this backup could be taken, it was already destroyed, which means data from yesterday morning is lost.
Tonight (CET of course) there will probably be an emergency network running at 10kb/s and the server will probably be online in 3 days. Until then Teletop (some kind of information system for communication between tutors and students) and the utwente email will be down.
Something about the building: The TWRC building some kind of monument which included that the outside of the building cannot be changed. This means the renovation plans have to be the same as the orignal building."
At least I hope they got rid of the air-problem, because it really stinked in that building anyways. Too bad everything to lost. They were just about to move all the servers to another location.
I was just printing my report which I had to hand in at 12:00 CET when I heard it. I worked the last 24 hours to complete the damn thing and then this.:(
Lucky for me I don't have internet from the university, but it still sucks bigtime.
I'm currently using Windows XP with a license from my university, which means I have to pay 22 euro's for a legal version with CD. The same is valid for Office. So money is not really a reason for me to stop using it.
Besides that I find Windows easier to install and easier to use. Yes, I've used several linux distro's on the same computer but there's always something wrong after the install. (suse, redhat, mandrake). The computer is two years old and has only class A hardware so it should all work properly, but it doesn't. Besides that installing a program on Windows is so much easier, at least I think it is (you might of course feel different;)). You might think I'm pro-microsoft now, but I'm not really. I'm on several linux irc-channels and of course an always-on-topic-topic is the question why I'm using windows and 'what the heck are you doing in this channel if you do, because windows sucks'. Then of course some kind of debate starts in which I try to convince them Windows it's not that bad and of course all operating systems have their advantages and disadvantages.
The main arguments people come up with why windows is bad are: -money -security -stability
The first one is easy, because of course you have to pay for Windows (duh), but I consider 22 euro's not that much and if I had to pay more, I would get it from a warez-site or whatever. I know it's not legal, but do you think Microsoft is knocking on my door if I do? Neither do I...
Security is of course a bit of a problem, but I run a kinda secure gateway, so the security problem is only an ethernet related for me. Of course there are bugs, but with a proper firewall up, there's no need to worry about security.
Stability has always been a problem for me, well always... I used to run Windows 98 which came with my first pc when I bought it. I'm used to leave my computer running all the time, so after 4 weeks you had to reboot, because of all the memory leaks, etc, of course only _if_ you managed to reach 4 weeks... After a few reinstallations and even a lot more crashes windows 2000 was there. It ran 100 times more stable then 98 did so this was a must for me. Around the same time I got myself familiar with the phenomenon 'linux', so I downloaded copies of suse, redhat and mandrake and installed it dualbooting with windows 2000. It ran quite stable, but at that time I was used to the userfrienlyness of windows, which is currently way better then it was then (in Linux I mean). At the moment I'm running Windows XP and it's perfectly stable. No crashes (only a few program crashes, but no bsod's) and it's still as fast as it was after the last reboot. I just checked my uptime and it's 6 weeks and 1 day and I really use my computer intensively. Even after installing all kinds of upgrades and crappy programs it's still stable and fast.
Well, why I never swithed to linux is because windows works fine for me now. Due to problems in the past with installing linux I never had the motivation (and time) of swithing to linux. Currently my server runs bsd and I'm also quite happy with that.
Everything works for me as it should, so why should I change then? Because of the crap Microsoft puts on my machine? Do I care if they know what hardware windows runs on? not really, maybe you do but I don't. Because of the uber-skinnable features in linux? not really, I'm currently very happy with my flashy blue-green windows with a black background.
It's not that I don't like Linux, it's more like I have no reason to switch. There are small advantages, but if I start using linux as main-os there are also small things why I want to switch back. Besides that I don't have the time to do it or at least I want to spend my time on other things.
Of course this is only my point of view and if you think different about it, that's fine with me. There's not one best solution to a 'problem', there are more, it's just what you think is important that matters.
The only thing I don't like is when people try to convince me to run linux, because it's so cool and because windows and bill gates are evil. yeah sure, whatever, I couldn't really care less.
Actually, this is quite an active discussion topic at the moment in The Netherlands. And yes, you can offend anyone or anything here. The only problem is if you do, you may get sued, because you cannot discriminate anyone here. It's in the constitution. Most of the time if somebody is offended by something (in the newspaper or so), a short-process follows. If the writer looses, most of the time a rectification has to follow in the same paper.
These are seriously just more leftist lies that try to paint the US as some kind of dictatorship just because the media isn't slanted to the far left like theirs. Media concentration may be a problem, but we at least have a constitutional amendment protecting our rights.
Umm... and European countries don't? If you post something, make sure you know _all_ the details. Oh yeah... one word which makes _a lot_ of difference between the US and Europe countries: DMCA
In what other countries that are supposedly better than us are the press free to walk out into public with a Swastika armband, yell "HEIL HITLER" at the top of your lungs, and give the Roman salute?"
The Netherlands, but I'm not sure other people will like it, so it might actually be better for you if the police picks you up.:)
Going to a more serious matter, which of those European countries would allow a true report on the pernicious effects of uncontrolled illegal immigration? Most of their presses are so controlled by political correctness that you cannot offend anyone or anything.
Actually, this is quite an active discussion topic at the moment in The Netherlands. And yes, you can offend anyone or anything here. The only problem is if you do, you may get sued, because you cannot discriminate anyone here. It's in the constitution. Most of the time if somebody is offended by something (in the newspaper or so), a short-process follows. If the writer looses, most of the time a rectification has to follow in the same paper.
"These are seriously just more leftist lies that try to paint the US as some kind of dictatorship just because the media isn't slanted to the far left like theirs.
Media concentration may be a problem, but we at least have a constitutional amendment protecting our rights."
Umm... and European countries don't? If you post something, make sure you know _all_ the details.
Oh yeah... one word which makes _a lot_ of difference between the US and Europe countries: DMCA
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The DMCA is a bug which could be exploited, for example by Lawyers. So you cannot talk about it, which means also in court of course. This makes it illegal to use the DMCA, because of the DMCA. So actually what I'm saying here is illegal, because this could be exploited. Damn, glad I live in Europe these days:S
Hmmz... I wouldn't be surprised if MS would forbid any linux machines on it's campus, but this is quite the other way around! Now users are actually forced to buy a new OS (or download a free one of course), because they cannot run the most stable Windows OS (2k).
What's next: no, you cannot use Nokia cellphones, because they cause to much interference in comparison to others? or you cannot buy cookies because they crumble to much in comparison to bread and they give clean-up problems?
So much about free choices:S They should actually rename this topic to a YRO-topic.
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This type of voluntary system was already implemented at Schiphol (The Netherlands) in 2001.
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Hotmail is since a few months already a lot better already. I received 200+ spam-emails a week on both hotmail-accounts I have, and now it's about 5 each week. This is _not_ the spamfilter which you can choose to use, but rather a spamfilter valid for all Hotmail users. I don't know what they did, but they should've done this already a few years ago. :)
Really, it sounds stupid maybe, but hotmail has now one of the best spamfilters I know.
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XMPP-Charter
SIP-Charter
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for Europe only: www.viamichelin.com I use it all the time, has a good interface and knows all the information I need to know :)
Of course it could be different for other countries, but using it for looking up streets in The Netherlands it is perfect!
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Isn't it ironic?
No
Yes
I don't know
Do I look ironic to you!?
I don't like irony, you insensitive clod!
CowboyNeal takes care of my irony
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Uh Oh!
:S
These domains will not be registered:
co.la : domain is reserved.
Too bad
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after big brother, now also little brother will be watching us...
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If you like Linux on CD, you may want to check out Morphix. I don't know if there's already a release, but I guess if you ask it on #dutch at irc.chatjunkies.org, you may get a copy.
sounds like a sythetic drug to me...
hmm, maybe that's the intention of the movie! watch it while your stoned?
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It was Virgin Interactive together with Westwood Studio's (or maybe Westwood was a part of Virgin?).
The original Dune had splash screens during the introduction movie with both Virgin Interactive and Westwood logo's.
Too bad Westwood is down... I really enjoyed their games and I spended lots and lots of hours on them.
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Or maybe I'm just watching the wrong chans...
both virii and viri aint proper pluralizations of the word virus. There are only 2 correct pluralizations:
:)
viruses: the 'normal' english one, which is also in the dictionary as plural.
vira: the original latin plural. The latin word virus is actually a second declination neutrum. Perseus Digital Library explains the whole thing.
For those who are intrested:
nom sg virus/virum
voc sg virus/virum/vire
gen sg viri
dat sg viro
acc sg virus/virum
abl sg viro
nom pl vira
voc pl vira
gen pl virorum/virum
dat pl viris
acc pl vira
abl pl viris
a completely normal latin verb except for the virus part which should be virum
Hmm... then the shit would come out of your mouth :S
I'm still wondering if that's a good or a bad thing.
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w00t! now i can finally get my vulcan ears, bajoran nose, klingon forhead and cardassian neck.
Hmmz... I wonder where I can find a body of one of those anyway?
Ebay maybe?
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"...just north of Enschede in the East." :)
Ummz... that's northeast right?
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So much about a firewall...
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I live about 5km away and at 11:00 CET I could still see a lot of brown/grey smoke in the air.
:(
frontpage.fok.nl (a dutch news site) reports the following, well at least not the article itself but in a reaction to it: "The D-wing was recently renovated to make it more 'fireproof', so there are no harmful gasses and such.
Every morning a backup is made from all the data. Unfortunetely, before this backup could be taken, it was already destroyed, which means data from yesterday morning is lost.
Tonight (CET of course) there will probably be an emergency network running at 10kb/s and the server will probably be online in 3 days. Until then Teletop (some kind of information system for communication between tutors and students) and the utwente email will be down. Something about the building: The TWRC building some kind of monument which included that the outside of the building cannot be changed. This means the renovation plans have to be the same as the orignal building."
At least I hope they got rid of the air-problem, because it really stinked in that building anyways. Too bad everything to lost. They were just about to move all the servers to another location.
I was just printing my report which I had to hand in at 12:00 CET when I heard it. I worked the last 24 hours to complete the damn thing and then this.
Lucky for me I don't have internet from the university, but it still sucks bigtime.
I'm currently using Windows XP with a license from my university, which means I have to pay 22 euro's for a legal version with CD. The same is valid for Office. So money is not really a reason for me to stop using it.
;)).
Besides that I find Windows easier to install and easier to use. Yes, I've used several linux distro's on the same computer but there's always something wrong after the install. (suse, redhat, mandrake). The computer is two years old and has only class A hardware so it should all work properly, but it doesn't. Besides that installing a program on Windows is so much easier, at least I think it is (you might of course feel different
You might think I'm pro-microsoft now, but I'm not really. I'm on several linux irc-channels and of course an always-on-topic-topic is the question why I'm using windows and 'what the heck are you doing in this channel if you do, because windows sucks'. Then of course some kind of debate starts in which I try to convince them Windows it's not that bad and of course all operating systems have their advantages and disadvantages.
The main arguments people come up with why windows is bad are:
-money
-security
-stability
The first one is easy, because of course you have to pay for Windows (duh), but I consider 22 euro's not that much and if I had to pay more, I would get it from a warez-site or whatever. I know it's not legal, but do you think Microsoft is knocking on my door if I do?
Neither do I...
Security is of course a bit of a problem, but I run a kinda secure gateway, so the security problem is only an ethernet related for me. Of course there are bugs, but with a proper firewall up, there's no need to worry about security.
Stability has always been a problem for me, well always... I used to run Windows 98 which came with my first pc when I bought it. I'm used to leave my computer running all the time, so after 4 weeks you had to reboot, because of all the memory leaks, etc, of course only _if_ you managed to reach 4 weeks... After a few reinstallations and even a lot more crashes windows 2000 was there. It ran 100 times more stable then 98 did so this was a must for me. Around the same time I got myself familiar with the phenomenon 'linux', so I downloaded copies of suse, redhat and mandrake and installed it dualbooting with windows 2000. It ran quite stable, but at that time I was used to the userfrienlyness of windows, which is currently way better then it was then (in Linux I mean).
At the moment I'm running Windows XP and it's perfectly stable. No crashes (only a few program crashes, but no bsod's) and it's still as fast as it was after the last reboot. I just checked my uptime and it's 6 weeks and 1 day and I really use my computer intensively. Even after installing all kinds of upgrades and crappy programs it's still stable and fast.
Well, why I never swithed to linux is because windows works fine for me now. Due to problems in the past with installing linux I never had the motivation (and time) of swithing to linux. Currently my server runs bsd and I'm also quite happy with that.
Everything works for me as it should, so why should I change then? Because of the crap Microsoft puts on my machine? Do I care if they know what hardware windows runs on? not really, maybe you do but I don't. Because of the uber-skinnable features in linux? not really, I'm currently very happy with my flashy blue-green windows with a black background.
It's not that I don't like Linux, it's more like I have no reason to switch. There are small advantages, but if I start using linux as main-os there are also small things why I want to switch back. Besides that I don't have the time to do it or at least I want to spend my time on other things.
Of course this is only my point of view and if you think different about it, that's fine with me. There's not one best solution to a 'problem', there are more, it's just what you think is important that matters.
The only thing I don't like is when people try to convince me to run linux, because it's so cool and because windows and bill gates are evil. yeah sure, whatever, I couldn't really care less.
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Actually, this is quite an active discussion topic at the moment in The Netherlands. And yes, you can offend anyone or anything here. The only problem is if you do, you may get sued, because you cannot discriminate anyone here. It's in the constitution. Most of the time if somebody is offended by something (in the newspaper or so), a short-process follows. If the writer looses, most of the time a rectification has to follow in the same paper. Umm... and European countries don't? If you post something, make sure you know _all_ the details. Oh yeah... one word which makes _a lot_ of difference between the US and Europe countries: DMCA
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The DMCA is a bug which could be exploited, for example by Lawyers. :S
So you cannot talk about it, which means also in court of course.
This makes it illegal to use the DMCA, because of the DMCA.
So actually what I'm saying here is illegal, because this could be exploited.
Damn, glad I live in Europe these days
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Hmmz... I wouldn't be surprised if MS would forbid any linux machines on it's campus, but this is quite the other way around! Now users are actually forced to buy a new OS (or download a free one of course), because they cannot run the most stable Windows OS (2k).
:S
What's next: no, you cannot use Nokia cellphones, because they cause to much interference in comparison to others? or you cannot buy cookies because they crumble to much in comparison to bread and they give clean-up problems?
So much about free choices
They should actually rename this topic to a YRO-topic.
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I wonder if they'll include it, just like they do in the windows versions :S
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WOO! Ideal for students like me! Now I don't have to wash my windows anymore!!
err... anymore? hehe, I've never done them anyway
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wow! we should get a calendar with all anniverseries of viruses, so we can celebrate anna kournikova's birthday! ;)
err... the virus of course
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