Although I'm not sure its the project you've described: Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA), from their site:
TMDA is an open source software application designed to significantly reduce the amount of spam (Internet junk-mail) you receive. TMDA strives to be more effective, yet less time-consuming than traditional spam filters. TMDA can also be used as a general purpose local mail delivery agent to filter, sort, deliver and dispose of incoming mail.
The technical countermeasures used by TMDA to thwart spam include:
* whitelists: accept mail from known, trusted senders.
* blacklists: refuse mail from undesired senders.
* challenge/response: allows unknown senders which aren't on the whitelist or blacklist the chance to confirm that their message is legitimate (non-spam).
* tagged addresses: special-purpose e-mail addresses such as time-dependent addresses, or addresses which only accept certain kinds of communication. These increase the transparency of TMDA for unknown senders by allowing them to safely circumvent the challenge/response system.
I currently use bluebottle.com who just recently re-emerged after shutting their service down (siting DDOS attacks by spammers). Their service is basically what the TMDA site describes with a nice setup and a few extra features. Its a free service so if your thinking about trying something like this out, this is the one. I personally am not a fan of filter and to date this is my favorite option. Stuff that I need gets in.
Other then the idea of another appliaction *flashing* endlessly as my 248 little tech devices have new firmware become magically available, I like it.;-)
As a techy I agree with you in concept but no matter what we do we are NEVER going to change Joe Sixpack. This is where it falls on the software engineers and the hardware engineers to design better. As our technology becomes more complicated (and more heavily depended upon) it should become more transparent, not require more unnecessary technical reading for the user.
The true beauty of technology should be judged in its apparent simplicity.
its a flaw NOT a feature. User-hostile features like DRM and the miriad, complicated upgrade schemes, authentication and registration hurdles will either have to dramatically improve (ie benift the user directly) or go away.
I'm not just talking out my ass about how theoretically Freevo or MythTV will do what you want, if you can figure out how to install it.
Ya, I know its a real brain buster.
urpmi mythtv
or
apt-get install mythtv
Yawn. or
emerge mythtv
If your still thinking you need to
tar -xjf mythtv-0.14.tar.bz2
cd mythtv ./configure
qmake mythtv.pro
make
You should probably update your distribution. Ripping DVD's works great on my system (as does video watching, music archiving, picture galleries and all the other good stuff). I built myth from source *exactly* once (because I didn't know binaries where available) and its a pain. You don't have to though and if you chose to after updating your system (by installing the binary and letting it add all the required files) its pretty much a snap too.
Blackholing entire netblocks BLOWS. Its the worst solution creating a problem as large or larger then the problem it was trying to solve. Always put the authentication into the hands of the user and KEEP AWAY from clumsy, monolithic/authoritarian systems. They don't have the resources or the interest to accurately screen the 100's of thousands of addresses out there.
I thank Microsoft. Sometimes it takes a 4000 pound gorilla to create standards and *while I don't agree with everything they do* they force a sort of standardization that make cheap OTS PC's a reality and brings a little order to what could easily be chaos.
I'd like to see a little more toe-stepping in the Linux market. We could use a bit of a bully.
The one big problem neither system solves is spam from sources that are not forged, and actually have a valid return address.
There are 2 current solutions for this issue. Blacklisting/or greylisting or the nebulous 'Web of Trust'. I've been using Bluebottles (recently revived service) which implments TMDA like greylisting, but with some additional add methods like requiring your user-name in the subject line or a 'pass-code' in order to self add.
Also, you make it sound in your previous comment as if everyone should unsubscribe from LJ because of those articles
Your probably refering to one of the other comments attached to mine. I read LJ myself, I also have a lot of respect for the editor Don Marti and although I do find it dissapointing because I can not 'disregard the comments and focus on the point of the article' I would not let that stop me from enjoying the rest of the magazine.
If this was a humor column I would have just written it off as not my style and moved on. The trouble is this is a technical column. *shrug*
I guess he would have his admirers but I'd appreciate his articles a whole lot more without the cutesy. For me it shoots straight past painful into new, uncharted territory.
Its too bad too, LJ is a really good journal and his articles are informative. But I can't read more then two lines myself before I become angry and lose patience. If I where reading comedy, maybe...but I like to keep my technical reading clear and comprehensible.
Good to know I'm not alone on this (my wife thought I was nuts grumbling under my breath..lol)!
then it needs to include some Linux distro that is practically guaranteed to install with no hassle (or at least no hassles not described in the book!).
If THAT can be accomplished, then Microsoft can start kissing itself goodbye.
There is a hell of a lot more to a good distro then the install process. Linux has excelled well beyond Windows in this regard already. Take my personal favorite: Mandrake. Not only does it look good installing, but it will configure and install most of your drivers in less then 10 minutes. But that doesn't make it time to kiss Microsoft goodbye. There are a lot of areas that still need work (configuration suites/desktop integration/filesystem layout/rational system application naming/menus).
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but we need to look at this pragmatically if we would like this to succeed.
System binaries go into/usr/bin and user installed binaries go into/usr/local/*. The idea being that if you need to back up your system you can back up/usr/local/* and get any extra software you installed, leaving the system software (which can be reinstalled with the system disk) in/usr/bin. Its good for servers (but not necessarily a good ease of use versus usefulness trade off).
Linux is ready for the desktop - the desktop just isn't ready for linux.
I've got 2 Linux boxes at home (no Windows partitions). I'd have to disagree though. Until Windows users know what emacs is or why some application binaries go under/usr/bin versus some/usr/local/bin or that documentation will be found under/usr/share/doc (or/usr/local/share/doc) and how to correct symbolic links pointing to outdate lib files I don't think its ready.
The way I'm seeing it now is Linux is two distict operating systems: desktop user system and POSIX *nix server. To truely be ready for the desktop we are going to have to cut out some of the cruft (at least for default) and thats going to REALLY piss some people off.
Make him stop using the CORNY FRENCH shtick. It make interesting articles unbearable. French is a beautiful language, but Marcel's French waiter doesn't belong in my firewall configuration article.
The interesting thing about gaming is the fact that the friends you make can be so diverse. To say one (minority) group should be segregated because they don't play as good as majority group Y is just silly. Why would we want to put up more artificial walls?
The girls, at least so far, are never the top players.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am the former leaders of a largish (70+) T2 clan. We had only one female player that I was aware of, but she was our star capper. She was very respected between the other clans and would definately be considered a top player. As far as I can tell there are fewer women playing then men, but thats about all the differnce there is.
We had a clan (T2) with over 70 players. We had ONE girl among them, but she was our start capper (flag grabber, CTF). She was well respected and not just by the members of our own clan. I've seen a few girls in various games since and they play just as good (or poorly) as their male counterparts.
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Other then the idea of another appliaction *flashing* endlessly as my 248 little tech devices have new firmware become magically available, I like it. ;-)
As a techy I agree with you in concept but no matter what we do we are NEVER going to change Joe Sixpack. This is where it falls on the software engineers and the hardware engineers to design better. As our technology becomes more complicated (and more heavily depended upon) it should become more transparent, not require more unnecessary technical reading for the user.
The true beauty of technology should be judged in its apparent simplicity.
its a flaw NOT a feature. User-hostile features like DRM and the miriad, complicated upgrade schemes, authentication and registration hurdles will either have to dramatically improve (ie benift the user directly) or go away.
Looks like a job for PETA!
Or does that headline read like its been sent through babelfish?
FUCKING MEAN MAN! ;-)
Now I can hear my favorite artist when I'm in..the elevator? ;-)
And whats up with this You have 5 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!?
;-)
Christ I just come here to troll, not to get harrased!
I'm not just talking out my ass about how theoretically Freevo or MythTV will do what you want, if you can figure out how to install it.
./configure
Ya, I know its a real brain buster.
urpmi mythtv
or
apt-get install mythtv
Yawn. or
emerge mythtv
If your still thinking you need to
tar -xjf mythtv-0.14.tar.bz2
cd mythtv
qmake mythtv.pro
make
You should probably update your distribution. Ripping DVD's works great on my system (as does video watching, music archiving, picture galleries and all the other good stuff). I built myth from source *exactly* once (because I didn't know binaries where available) and its a pain. You don't have to though and if you chose to after updating your system (by installing the binary and letting it add all the required files) its pretty much a snap too.
Or maybe Windows is the heart attack and Linux the begining of a healthy new lifestyle.
;-)
Pfft. Those PR guys.
Hmmm. Sounds interesting. It will be nice to see what this addition looks like after the beta.
;-)
Blackholing entire netblocks BLOWS. Its the worst solution creating a problem as large or larger then the problem it was trying to solve. Always put the authentication into the hands of the user and KEEP AWAY from clumsy, monolithic/authoritarian systems. They don't have the resources or the interest to accurately screen the 100's of thousands of addresses out there.
I thank Microsoft. Sometimes it takes a 4000 pound gorilla to create standards and *while I don't agree with everything they do* they force a sort of standardization that make cheap OTS PC's a reality and brings a little order to what could easily be chaos.
I'd like to see a little more toe-stepping in the Linux market. We could use a bit of a bully.
The one big problem neither system solves is spam from sources that are not forged, and actually have a valid return address.
There are 2 current solutions for this issue. Blacklisting/or greylisting or the nebulous 'Web of Trust'. I've been using Bluebottles (recently revived service) which implments TMDA like greylisting, but with some additional add methods like requiring your user-name in the subject line or a 'pass-code' in order to self add.
We are getting closer!
Also, you make it sound in your previous comment as if everyone should unsubscribe from LJ because of those articles
Your probably refering to one of the other comments attached to mine. I read LJ myself, I also have a lot of respect for the editor Don Marti and although I do find it dissapointing because I can not 'disregard the comments and focus on the point of the article' I would not let that stop me from enjoying the rest of the magazine.
If this was a humor column I would have just written it off as not my style and moved on. The trouble is this is a technical column. *shrug*
I guess he would have his admirers but I'd appreciate his articles a whole lot more without the cutesy. For me it shoots straight past painful into new, uncharted territory.
Its too bad too, LJ is a really good journal and his articles are informative. But I can't read more then two lines myself before I become angry and lose patience. If I where reading comedy, maybe...but I like to keep my technical reading clear and comprehensible.
Good to know I'm not alone on this (my wife thought I was nuts grumbling under my breath..lol)!
then it needs to include some Linux distro that is practically guaranteed to install with no hassle (or at least no hassles not described in the book!). If THAT can be accomplished, then Microsoft can start kissing itself goodbye.
There is a hell of a lot more to a good distro then the install process. Linux has excelled well beyond Windows in this regard already. Take my personal favorite: Mandrake. Not only does it look good installing, but it will configure and install most of your drivers in less then 10 minutes. But that doesn't make it time to kiss Microsoft goodbye. There are a lot of areas that still need work (configuration suites/desktop integration/filesystem layout/rational system application naming/menus).
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but we need to look at this pragmatically if we would like this to succeed.
System binaries go into /usr/bin and user installed binaries go into /usr/local/*. The idea being that if you need to back up your system you can back up /usr/local/* and get any extra software you installed, leaving the system software (which can be reinstalled with the system disk) in /usr/bin. Its good for servers (but not necessarily a good ease of use versus usefulness trade off).
Linux is ready for the desktop - the desktop just isn't ready for linux.
/usr/bin versus some /usr/local/bin or that documentation will be found under /usr/share/doc (or /usr/local/share/doc) and how to correct symbolic links pointing to outdate lib files I don't think its ready.
I've got 2 Linux boxes at home (no Windows partitions). I'd have to disagree though. Until Windows users know what emacs is or why some application binaries go under
The way I'm seeing it now is Linux is two distict operating systems: desktop user system and POSIX *nix server. To truely be ready for the desktop we are going to have to cut out some of the cruft (at least for default) and thats going to REALLY piss some people off.
Make him stop using the CORNY FRENCH shtick. It make interesting articles unbearable. French is a beautiful language, but Marcel's French waiter doesn't belong in my firewall configuration article.
The interesting thing about gaming is the fact that the friends you make can be so diverse. To say one (minority) group should be segregated because they don't play as good as majority group Y is just silly. Why would we want to put up more artificial walls?
The girls, at least so far, are never the top players.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I am the former leaders of a largish (70+) T2 clan. We had only one female player that I was aware of, but she was our star capper. She was very respected between the other clans and would definately be considered a top player. As far as I can tell there are fewer women playing then men, but thats about all the differnce there is.
We had a clan (T2) with over 70 players. We had ONE girl among them, but she was our start capper (flag grabber, CTF). She was well respected and not just by the members of our own clan. I've seen a few girls in various games since and they play just as good (or poorly) as their male counterparts.