Sad, but it's true, it is simply easier to remember to type "google.com" than "askjeeves.com".
Do you really surf to the site every time? I think most of us use some kind of browser-integrated search mechanism, be it a separate field (Firefox or IE toolbar), an option in the url field (Mozilla), a keyword (gg:searchterm in Konqueror if I remember correctly). You can get or configure these for AJ too.
On the Url: what about ask.com or even aj.com?
Currently, I find myself using A9 quite often on pc's without a Google toolbar/field. You can just surf to a9.com/searchterm, instead of google.com/search?q=searchterm.. really easy, especially now that they are using a more eye-friendly colour scheme than the previous (beta) one.
> If port25 is being blocked and you dont want users to change their outgoing smtp
> servers all the time, what is the best way to have reliable email on laptops.
Authenticated SMTP over SSL. The Auth part to be able to relay mail for users you trust, SSL to prevent their login details from being stolen by middlemen looking for relays.
I'd just like to have one fake email/password so i could remember it for the thousand different sites that want my details
Your prayers have been answered: http://www.bugmenot.com
Just add their bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks toolbar, or attach a shortcut to it. Whenever a site asks your details, click the link and the site will provide you with a login/pass. If the site is unknown, register using a fake address (or an address like bugmenot@mailinator.com, if you need to 'click to activate your membership'), and let other users benifit from your time.
I wonder why it took so long for this to be posted.
You must be new here.
PS: don't worry about the lack of attention, now that you're in the collective mind of the/. audience, expect a duplicate of this story in a few days. That should make up for it
I recently had the pleasant opportunity to debate with the local technical manager of Microsoft, about legislation mandating open standards use by governements. Their argument was that they now publish their xml specs for office documents.
While this is true, often-used features (by companies) like macro's aren't 'open', and they have applied for patents on xml documents. This makes it legally dangerous to implement import and export filters.
Luckily software is not yet patentable in Europe, but Microsoft and the BSA are lobbying very hard to make this possible.
Two of his arguments made me laugh in his face (while he was a nice guy, it's hard to stay friendly and serious when he blatantly lies in your face):
* 'We are not litigious'. My response: Lindows will be glad to hear this. His response: silence
* 'We are only patenting this things out of self defense, to avoid Eolas-like situations.' My response: then why don't you define a patent policy like Redhat, then why do you state you want to get more revenue from your patents?.
Without a patent policy like Redhat's, I think it's irresponsible for governements to rely on proprietary formats as long as this software patents are hanging like a cloud above our heads.
I really think registrars have got a big responsability in the whole spam problem. They've got the key to prosecuting spammers, but usually prefer their 4$ they make on a domain (multiplied by the hundreds of different domains spammers and googlebombers usually register).
And if you mean spammer's web-servers, Gandi has done nothing wrong, yet you want to shut them down?
I want to look up the owner of the domain to be able to file a complaint at our ministry of Economic affairs, which is responsible for the enforcement of our national anti-spam law.
It's hard to file a complaint when the whois info is
Mr Joe
x st 13
xxx
xxx country
+xx 000000000
If that is the whois info, Gandi did something wrong and should terminate the domain, as the licensee did not play by the rules.
(That's also why I hate Domainsbyproxy. While I do see (a few) legitimate reasons to use this 'service', it's mostely used by spammers. The Domainsbyproxy abuse dept. takes on average 2 weeks to respond, and then takes no action. Now that's just great...)
Altough intended for kids, they usually have got huge, colourful buttons.
I don't think this one has got a display, but at least it hasn't got tiny buttons.
Good luck!
"OpenOffice.org uses a dual license strategy for the source code and a separate documentation license for most documents published on the website without the intention of being included in the product. The source-code licenses are the GNU General Public License and the Sun Industry Standards Source License. The document license is the Public Document License."
So it is licensed under three licenses: GPL, LGPL and their own SISSL. Pick the one which suits your need the best and follow it's terms.
define:PHB: Pointy-Haired Boss. A creation of Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame. (Dilbert's Boss)
Heh, for me it also was Sash!, but the single Equador.
It did not come from the internet, but from a local BBS on which MP3s where the new big thing.
Even tough I got my first internet account in late 1994 I still continued to connect to BBS as late as 1998, because back then my internet subscription was billed on a hourly late, on top of the hourly rates we have to pay on local phone calls here in Belgium, while most BBS's didn't require any sort of subscription.
A few months later the first cheap flat-rate internet subscription appeared, and most BBS's round here quickly faded away after that)
* In Flanders, the cable was until recently provided by local governement-owned companies. There only was competition in one city, Leuven. Telenet, a communications company that provides phone and internet via the cable bought they cable system from the communities and now owns the network too. (Shortly after that they raised tv subscription prices, but that's another story).
You've got cable access from Telenet. This costs 41,95 euros/month. For this price you may connect 1 pc (a second one raises the subscription cost to 45 euro). You get a traffic quota of 10 Gb, of which 15% may be upstream (1,5 Gb). At night (from 0 am to 10 am) the traffic only counts for 50%. If you exceed this quota you are being placed on a slower-then-dialup speed until your average goes down again or you buy extra traffic blocks.
Until some months ago you *had* to connect trough the Telenet proxy, which was frequently down, and almost all inbound ports were blocked. Telenet also actively searches for servers homsted on their lines. Static IPs are not possible.
In Brussels and Wallonia you can also get broadband via cable, but I don't know how the pricing is there. I suppose it's comparable to Telenet.
* DSL: The former Belgian telecom monopoly, Belgacom, which owns the POTS network offers DSL trough a range of providers. Skynet, which is owned by Belgacom, takes the largest part of the market. One of the means they achieve is is by claiming a user is located too far from the LEX if they try to subscribe trough a competitor, but when they want to subscribe to Skynet they 'magically' are close enough.
Prices vary around 39 euro / month. ADSL also has got a quota of 15 Gb, though it's not enforced as strictly as Telenet does. (Some providers don't overcharge you unless you really overuse excessively, some don't even count your traffic)
Recently Scarlet, which also offers ADSL via Skynet, has begun installing their own BAS equipment in Belgacom LEXes. Subscribers that are connected via the Scarlet BASes get higher up- and downstream speeds.
Even more recently Versatel has begun offering what they call "ADSL Light". They've got two formulas: Free ADSL and Always ADSL. The first one charges no monthly rate, but a per minute rate of 0,0425 euro and a per-session setup cost of 0,25 euro.
Always ADSL costs 19,90 euro per month, for which you get a traffic quota of 250 Mb. Extra usage is charged at 5 eurocent per MB, with a maximum of 10 euro. The speeds are also somewhat slower than 'classic' Adsl offered by Belgacom.
To sum up: you can choose between two monopolies, which offer a comparable product. Static IPs or running servers are out of the question, but the prices are quite nice. According to the Internet Service Providers Association, over 55% of all residential users is connected via broadband.
Yes, that's right, when I got the source off the CD, I got the original unmodified source tarball, a diff file, and a shell script with build options - not some mysteriously customized source tarball that the distro thinks is somehow better than the original, but the original tarball plus Slackware's modifications - meaning, I can easily make the same modifications to a new version of the source.
I totally respect Slackware, and I think it's good for 'the community' to have it, I have to add that RPM does this as well.
A source RPM (.srpm) is a CPIO archive containing, ao., the original tar + the patch(es) the packager have applied to them. This way you can create an RPM of a newer version without losing the enhancements/modifications your distribution has made to them, just like you did with Slackware. I suppose.debs have got the same functionality.
And, no matter how hard I might try to tell her not to, my mom keeps doing that.
Then block mom@example.com as well. Problem solved.
(OTOH I don't like this solution, even tough I use it myself. Spam that gets dev/nulled still eats up *my* cpu ticks, *my* bandwidth, *my* disk space (for a second, when it's in the queue)
" This is the official mirror system of Macromedia Linux packages.
With permission from Macromedia we take their software and package
it in Linux friendly ways (RPM, DEB, ebuild). These packages are
made available for manual download, apt-get, urpmi, or emerge.
Macromedia's EULA forbids repackaging and/or redistribution of
their software so please do not mirror this repository.
Please point your apt-get or urpmi to one of these official
mirrors of this site, as they will be permanent."
Apparently you can either try to ask MM for another exception, or you can make your distribution download the packages from this site. It's maintained by Warren Togami of Fedora.us-fame.
Real Player
You might want to ask the folks at helixsupport.org, and read the licenses over there.
Yahoo IM
When you go to messenger.yahoo.com, click on Unix and check the RPM you see that the license is "proprietary". You can contact them at messenger-unix-support@yahoo-inc.com, maybe they can give you more info.
As for the distributions which include it, like Lycoris, I suppose they've all gotten permission from the authors/owners of this products.
I don't always agree with Jakob "butt ugly, but look how useful" Nielsen, but on direct linking to PDFs the man's got a point.
What's next? an article about the flexibility of various body holes, linked to the site which ruined the whole.cx TLD?
(this is not flamebait, nor trolling.. Maybe off-topic..)
Thanks for pointing this out. It's nice to see they still care about their 'customers'/users, and actually do something about the complaints. I guess it will pay off for me to keep reporting the spammers.
Don't get me wrong from the original post, I still love Google, and I do hope they come up with a way to get rid of the spam domains once and for all.
I too am experiencing this more and more during the past few weeks (months?)..
For example when searching for visual basic decompiler the second to fourth results are 'spam sites'.
I always report this kind of crap via the "Dissatisfied with your search results?"-link, but apparently nothing is done against this sites, which are getting more and more annoying.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you really surf to the site every time? I think most of us use some kind of browser-integrated search mechanism, be it a separate field (Firefox or IE toolbar), an option in the url field (Mozilla), a keyword (gg:searchterm in Konqueror if I remember correctly). You can get or configure these for AJ too.
On the Url: what about ask.com or even aj.com?
Currently, I find myself using A9 quite often on pc's without a Google toolbar/field. You can just surf to a9.com/searchterm, instead of google.com/search?q=searchterm.. really easy, especially now that they are using a more eye-friendly colour scheme than the previous (beta) one.
Thank god I can use iTunes with Firefox.
Authenticated SMTP over SSL. The Auth part to be able to relay mail for users you trust, SSL to prevent their login details from being stolen by middlemen looking for relays.
Your prayers have been answered: http://www.bugmenot.com
Just add their bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks toolbar, or attach a shortcut to it. Whenever a site asks your details, click the link and the site will provide you with a login/pass. If the site is unknown, register using a fake address (or an address like bugmenot@mailinator.com, if you need to 'click to activate your membership'), and let other users benifit from your time.
I agree. They should get spelling lessons first.
entierly, Its, subjet, problems ... is, Youve, gaurdians, Americas, youve
A major part of the problem is that people are too incompetant to do the job.
I know you are..
You must be new here.
PS: don't worry about the lack of attention, now that you're in the collective mind of the /. audience, expect a duplicate of this story in a few days. That should make up for it
No, it's even better. ;)
Spammers don't filter on domain extensions.. My
"December 3, 2003" (Their patent on licensing the FAT file system)
I recently had the pleasant opportunity to debate with the local technical manager of Microsoft, about legislation mandating open standards use by governements. Their argument was that they now publish their xml specs for office documents.
While this is true, often-used features (by companies) like macro's aren't 'open', and they have applied for patents on xml documents. This makes it legally dangerous to implement import and export filters.
Luckily software is not yet patentable in Europe, but Microsoft and the BSA are lobbying very hard to make this possible.
Two of his arguments made me laugh in his face (while he was a nice guy, it's hard to stay friendly and serious when he blatantly lies in your face):
* 'We are not litigious'. My response: Lindows will be glad to hear this. His response: silence
* 'We are only patenting this things out of self defense, to avoid Eolas-like situations.' My response: then why don't you define a patent policy like Redhat, then why do you state you want to get more revenue from your patents?. Without a patent policy like Redhat's, I think it's irresponsible for governements to rely on proprietary formats as long as this software patents are hanging like a cloud above our heads.
(just my 0,02 off course)
I really think registrars have got a big responsability in the whole spam problem. They've got the key to prosecuting spammers, but usually prefer their 4$ they make on a domain (multiplied by the hundreds of different domains spammers and googlebombers usually register).
I want to look up the owner of the domain to be able to file a complaint at our ministry of Economic affairs, which is responsible for the enforcement of our national anti-spam law. It's hard to file a complaint when the whois info is Mr Joe x st 13 xxx xxx country +xx 000000000 If that is the whois info, Gandi did something wrong and should terminate the domain, as the licensee did not play by the rules.
(That's also why I hate Domainsbyproxy. While I do see (a few) legitimate reasons to use this 'service', it's mostely used by spammers. The Domainsbyproxy abuse dept. takes on average 2 weeks to respond, and then takes no action. Now that's just great...)
Altough intended for kids, they usually have got huge, colourful buttons. I don't think this one has got a display, but at least it hasn't got tiny buttons. Good luck!
No, it was born at the University of Louvain-La-Neuve, 'The New Louvain'. This is the French-speaking sister of the KUL.
OO.o/license.html, licensing FAQ.
"OpenOffice.org uses a dual license strategy for the source code and a separate documentation license for most documents published on the website without the intention of being included in the product. The source-code licenses are the GNU General Public License and the Sun Industry Standards Source License. The document license is the Public Document License."
So it is licensed under three licenses: GPL, LGPL and their own SISSL. Pick the one which suits your need the best and follow it's terms.
define:PHB: Pointy-Haired Boss. A creation of Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame. (Dilbert's Boss)
Heh, for me it also was Sash!, but the single Equador. It did not come from the internet, but from a local BBS on which MP3s where the new big thing. Even tough I got my first internet account in late 1994 I still continued to connect to BBS as late as 1998, because back then my internet subscription was billed on a hourly late, on top of the hourly rates we have to pay on local phone calls here in Belgium, while most BBS's didn't require any sort of subscription. A few months later the first cheap flat-rate internet subscription appeared, and most BBS's round here quickly faded away after that)
Thanks for the info!
* In Flanders, the cable was until recently provided by local governement-owned companies. There only was competition in one city, Leuven. Telenet, a communications company that provides phone and internet via the cable bought they cable system from the communities and now owns the network too. (Shortly after that they raised tv subscription prices, but that's another story).
You've got cable access from Telenet. This costs 41,95 euros/month. For this price you may connect 1 pc (a second one raises the subscription cost to 45 euro). You get a traffic quota of 10 Gb, of which 15% may be upstream (1,5 Gb). At night (from 0 am to 10 am) the traffic only counts for 50%. If you exceed this quota you are being placed on a slower-then-dialup speed until your average goes down again or you buy extra traffic blocks.
Until some months ago you *had* to connect trough the Telenet proxy, which was frequently down, and almost all inbound ports were blocked. Telenet also actively searches for servers homsted on their lines. Static IPs are not possible.
In Brussels and Wallonia you can also get broadband via cable, but I don't know how the pricing is there. I suppose it's comparable to Telenet.
* DSL: The former Belgian telecom monopoly, Belgacom, which owns the POTS network offers DSL trough a range of providers. Skynet, which is owned by Belgacom, takes the largest part of the market. One of the means they achieve is is by claiming a user is located too far from the LEX if they try to subscribe trough a competitor, but when they want to subscribe to Skynet they 'magically' are close enough. Prices vary around 39 euro / month. ADSL also has got a quota of 15 Gb, though it's not enforced as strictly as Telenet does. (Some providers don't overcharge you unless you really overuse excessively, some don't even count your traffic)
Recently Scarlet, which also offers ADSL via Skynet, has begun installing their own BAS equipment in Belgacom LEXes. Subscribers that are connected via the Scarlet BASes get higher up- and downstream speeds.
Even more recently Versatel has begun offering what they call "ADSL Light". They've got two formulas: Free ADSL and Always ADSL. The first one charges no monthly rate, but a per minute rate of 0,0425 euro and a per-session setup cost of 0,25 euro. Always ADSL costs 19,90 euro per month, for which you get a traffic quota of 250 Mb. Extra usage is charged at 5 eurocent per MB, with a maximum of 10 euro. The speeds are also somewhat slower than 'classic' Adsl offered by Belgacom.
To sum up: you can choose between two monopolies, which offer a comparable product. Static IPs or running servers are out of the question, but the prices are quite nice. According to the Internet Service Providers Association, over 55% of all residential users is connected via broadband.
I totally respect Slackware, and I think it's good for 'the community' to have it, I have to add that RPM does this as well. .debs have got the same functionality.
A source RPM (.srpm) is a CPIO archive containing, ao., the original tar + the patch(es) the packager have applied to them. This way you can create an RPM of a newer version without losing the enhancements/modifications your distribution has made to them, just like you did with Slackware. I suppose
Then block mom@example.com as well. Problem solved.
(OTOH I don't like this solution, even tough I use it myself. Spam that gets dev/nulled still eats up *my* cpu ticks, *my* bandwidth, *my* disk space (for a second, when it's in the queue)
And no, it's not cool to type it that way. What's next?
Wind00z licensing c0$ts are increasing. I wanna ch4ng3 to da Linuxx-side widout virii. W00t!
Grrr...
Check: http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/
" This is the official mirror system of Macromedia Linux packages.
With permission from Macromedia we take their software and package
it in Linux friendly ways (RPM, DEB, ebuild). These packages are
made available for manual download, apt-get, urpmi, or emerge.
Macromedia's EULA forbids repackaging and/or redistribution of
their software so please do not mirror this repository.
Please point your apt-get or urpmi to one of these official
mirrors of this site, as they will be permanent."
Apparently you can either try to ask MM for another exception, or you can make your distribution download the packages from this site. It's maintained by Warren Togami of Fedora.us-fame.
Real Player
You might want to ask the folks at helixsupport.org, and read the licenses over there.
Yahoo IM
When you go to messenger.yahoo.com, click on Unix and check the RPM you see that the license is "proprietary". You can contact them at messenger-unix-support@yahoo-inc.com, maybe they can give you more info.
As for the distributions which include it, like Lycoris, I suppose they've all gotten permission from the authors/owners of this products.
I don't always agree with Jakob "butt ugly, but look how useful" Nielsen, but on direct linking to PDFs the man's got a point. What's next? an article about the flexibility of various body holes, linked to the site which ruined the whole .cx TLD?
(this is not flamebait, nor trolling.. Maybe off-topic..)
Don't get me wrong from the original post, I still love Google, and I do hope they come up with a way to get rid of the spam domains once and for all.
One thing scares me, and that is how they behave towards Adsense-powered sites. Any Slashdot-reading Google-employee willing to comment on this?
For example when searching for visual basic decompiler the second to fourth results are 'spam sites'.
I always report this kind of crap via the "Dissatisfied with your search results?"-link, but apparently nothing is done against this sites, which are getting more and more annoying.
Time to switch?
> Microsoft never said that open source was the end of freedom. They said that about the GPL, but not BSD.
Which is probably why they distribute ao. gcc in one of their products and nicely distribute the source code on cd (for a fee) and on their site (for free) ?