I recently installed a "realtime blackhole list" filter on my Exchange 2000 server. Shout outs to Martijn - the man who wrote the free "ORFILTER". So far, this thing works GREAT. I can't believe how much spam we don't get now!
I've had two instances here where someone wasn't getting their mail. In both cases, the ISP was contacted and they fixed the problem. NO ISP wants an open relay, but sometimes it happens through negligence or incompetance. Closing or blocking these open relays is a great first step in the fight against spam.
Oh, and to check out this filter - go here:
http://www.martijnjongen.com/eng/orfilter/defaul t. htm
Actually, considering how bad the market has been doing lately, I'm surprised they haven't taken even bigger hits than this.
REAL tech stocks have to be treated as any other stock - a long range investment. Not sure I would take a chance on either, but there's far worse out there!
It seems to me that Salon's failure has more to do with it's left-wing politics than anything else. I read Salon but the constant bush-bashing is irritating to say the least. Great if you're a bitter Democrat, but I don't even look at the politics section anymore.
It's like talk radio. Mostly right wing and profitable. I hear that Al Franken and some others want to start a left-wing talkk radio network. Well, I wish 'em luck, but I thought they already had Larry King and Sally Jesse...
That's what Rhino's been doing. They've obviously had a great deal of success sellign back catalogues of stuff. Some of it isn't even that obscure - it's just that they package it better.
But why, exactly, should this be our problem? If Sony is too big to handle individual requests, than what's wrong with an automated online distribution system?
No, these greedy bastards (and not just Sony, btw) want not just some, but ALL to themselves. Their own rules. Their gameplan or no ones. This is why the vast majority of the American public thinks that music companies and those that support them (RIIA, for instance), suck.
And don't get me started about the ridiculousness of 'public performances'. If the RIAA wants the public to feel better about them they should stop suing organizations like the Girl Scouts for singing 'Happy Birthday'.
Is this related in any way to the story about a little guy that lives in a blue world? And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him inside and outside?:P
nVidia's plans for the FX were greater than what actually happened. If this had been released with support for 256 bit memory, I think it would've stomped ATi big time.
Sometimes it takes a brilliant failure like this to catapult R&D to the next level. Let's hope that happens here.
"...but who cares? People who license their code under the BSD License don't waste time and energy investigating these types of issues. Instead, they keep coding. "
I care. That doesn't mean I want to mod you down either. It just proves that people don't understand the spirit of the GPL. Why it exists. Why it's important to defend.
Part of the point of the GPL isn't so much the technical aspect of the license - there's RELIGION there also. It is the unspoken belief (well, I think RMS has said something to this effect), that many coders contribute to the GPL codebase to make it better (and therefore save the universe from oppression or something like that);)
When one steals from the GPL codebase, their contribution - which if sold is REQUIRED, must be returned to the whole. To not do so, to take the accomplishments of others who build on this license diminishes us all. It's as simple as that. Now, it is apparent (at least to what I've heard) that what this company (Castle) has STOLEN the work of others. Of course it should be looked at.
Hell, since many of us are now paying the "assumed CD-R piracy" fees everytime we buy blanks, this at least is a blatent violation of a legally enforceable license.
Most defense contracting is a rubber stamp process. Contractors get the MANDATORY yearly price increases, freely given by the gov't, then you have companies tack on extra in fees with little or no real accountability.
If Lockheed builds your F-16, you get the parts from them. If, for some reason, the price on an F-16 widget goes up 200% in one year, this is rarely challenged. The process to do so costs almost as much.
As a Navy boss once said, "Yeah, they got us on this one, but we'll get them on the BIG ones..." This was for a part that was elevated over 1000% in less than three years time. Total cost was over 10 million dollars. Big ones... Right.
Don't forget about the VERY proprietary extended play/record modes on the Canon's. Yes, you can store 6 hrs. worth of video on it but Premiere doesn't seem to enjoy it much. Haven't yet tried it with Vegas...
There is a means - that's what the popular vote is for. Of course, that doesn't mean that it's always right, but it beats the other alternatives - apathy, for instance.
"With every new inane law or result of a lawsuit that I hear, I get one step closer to leaving the United States. It's becoming a bloody corporate rape scene here in the States and I for one am just about at the end of my rope."
I agree with most of your points but I'm really getting tired of the "Hollywood Solution" to this country's problems. England has Madonna now, and they can have her for all I care. But you know, it figures. Artists like her and the Alec Baldwin's of the world made their money from the very system they want so desparately to escape (by the way Alec, your man lost - you can leave anytime now). Does Hollywood really provide the best moral basis to compare by?
This is the same kind of escapism that bubbled up to the top in the 60's. Maybe part of the problem is that there are fewer and fewer people actually willing to tackle these sorts of issues.
Ever meet anyone who didn't vote in an election because they felt that their vote didn't count? More escapism. The real truth is, they don't vote because the don't want to be blamed if it all goes to hell. Well, GROW UP! Take responsibility and DO something for once. People are people everywhere. If you really want to live somewhere better, why not start in your own backyard?
This country still has much to offer her people. Don't be so quick give up on her when things get rough.
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In this economy, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice shouldn't be ignored. The OpenOffice project has provided a great way for us to provide free software to our students/staff, while giving us reasonable compatibility with MS Office.
Remember, MS Office 11 will be switching file formats again making things as incompatible as that disasterous MS Office 95. This is part of the lever I've been using with both schools and businesses here.
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Agreed, and I'll add one more thing. The first distro that adds Windows Domain support - COMPLETE support will be the one I implement here.
My users get mapped drives and shares when they login to the domain. I need my users to have centralized information stored on a Windows-based server. The software we use have few analogs in the open source world, so our backend is likely to remain the same for the forseeable future.
All of this needs to be seamless, and it needs to happen reliably. I haven't seen that yet. The pieces parts are there, certainly, but no one has gotten it right yet.
My guess is, this is EXEACTLY what Red Hat is planning to do with their next Workstation version.
{What would be super cool is if I could figure out how to get MAME to work. I haven't been able to use it since version 0.32. Every time I click on the executable it does nothing. No windows open. No program launches. No errors. Nothing.}...and this is exactly why you'll never see a major company put their roms in a MAME-enabled anything. Support costs like this will kill that idea.
How about copy protection on a game like 'Battlefield 1942'? Just what is the point of putting copy protection on a game like this where the only point to it is the online aspect.
No one plays single player in BF - NO ONE. And even if you could deal with the lame computer AI, you gotta figure that this would only whet a pirate's appetite enough to get them to get a key for themselves.
Hey EA, why do you keep pissing off your PAYING customers with this crap?
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I recently installed a "realtime blackhole list" filter on my Exchange 2000 server. Shout outs to Martijn - the man who wrote the free "ORFILTER". So far, this thing works GREAT. I can't believe how much spam we don't get now!
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I've had two instances here where someone wasn't getting their mail. In both cases, the ISP was contacted and they fixed the problem. NO ISP wants an open relay, but sometimes it happens through negligence or incompetance. Closing or blocking these open relays is a great first step in the fight against spam.
Oh, and to check out this filter - go here:
http://www.martijnjongen.com/eng/orfilter/defau
Actually, considering how bad the market has been doing lately, I'm surprised they haven't taken even bigger hits than this.
REAL tech stocks have to be treated as any other stock - a long range investment. Not sure I would take a chance on either, but there's far worse out there!
So where does that leave Transmeta? Hmmmmm?
It seems to me that Salon's failure has more to do with it's left-wing politics than anything else. I read Salon but the constant bush-bashing is irritating to say the least. Great if you're a bitter Democrat, but I don't even look at the politics section anymore.
It's like talk radio. Mostly right wing and profitable. I hear that Al Franken and some others want to start a left-wing talkk radio network. Well, I wish 'em luck, but I thought they already had Larry King and Sally Jesse...
Oh.. My bad. :)
That's what Rhino's been doing. They've obviously had a great deal of success sellign back catalogues of stuff. Some of it isn't even that obscure - it's just that they package it better.
But why, exactly, should this be our problem? If Sony is too big to handle individual requests, than what's wrong with an automated online distribution system?
No, these greedy bastards (and not just Sony, btw) want not just some, but ALL to themselves. Their own rules. Their gameplan or no ones. This is why the vast majority of the American public thinks that music companies and those that support them (RIIA, for instance), suck.
And don't get me started about the ridiculousness of 'public performances'. If the RIAA wants the public to feel better about them they should stop suing organizations like the Girl Scouts for singing 'Happy Birthday'.
Is this related in any way to the story about a little guy that lives in a blue world? And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him inside and outside? :P
nVidia's plans for the FX were greater than what actually happened. If this had been released with support for 256 bit memory, I think it would've stomped ATi big time.
Sometimes it takes a brilliant failure like this to catapult R&D to the next level. Let's hope that happens here.
So much for fan taping of these shows. Jeez, squeeze EVERY penny!
" ...but who cares? People who license their code under the BSD License don't waste time and energy investigating these types of issues. Instead, they keep coding. "
;)
I care. That doesn't mean I want to mod you down either. It just proves that people don't understand the spirit of the GPL. Why it exists. Why it's important to defend.
Part of the point of the GPL isn't so much the technical aspect of the license - there's RELIGION there also. It is the unspoken belief (well, I think RMS has said something to this effect), that many coders contribute to the GPL codebase to make it better (and therefore save the universe from oppression or something like that)
When one steals from the GPL codebase, their contribution - which if sold is REQUIRED, must be returned to the whole. To not do so, to take the accomplishments of others who build on this license diminishes us all. It's as simple as that. Now, it is apparent (at least to what I've heard) that what this company (Castle) has STOLEN the work of others. Of course it should be looked at.
Hell, since many of us are now paying the "assumed CD-R piracy" fees everytime we buy blanks, this at least is a blatent violation of a legally enforceable license.
Oh, cry me a river.
Most defense contracting is a rubber stamp process. Contractors get the MANDATORY yearly price increases, freely given by the gov't, then you have companies tack on extra in fees with little or no real accountability.
If Lockheed builds your F-16, you get the parts from them. If, for some reason, the price on an F-16 widget goes up 200% in one year, this is rarely challenged. The process to do so costs almost as much.
As a Navy boss once said, "Yeah, they got us on this one, but we'll get them on the BIG ones..." This was for a part that was elevated over 1000% in less than three years time. Total cost was over 10 million dollars. Big ones... Right.
We fund public schools. How much of your tax dollars ultimately end up in the hands of Microsoft? Is it necessary?
Don't forget about the VERY proprietary extended play/record modes on the Canon's. Yes, you can store 6 hrs. worth of video on it but Premiere doesn't seem to enjoy it much. Haven't yet tried it with Vegas...
Agreed. I recently got turned onto Project Gutenberg (www.projectgutenberg.org), and have been perusing the classics on my PDA.
It has truly been enlightening to read Sinclair Lewis and Mark Twain's actual works and not just some quick quotes.
Actually, given all the scandals that have plaqued the CatLick Church lately, who WOULDN'T believe it? That is, unless you're a drone.
There is a means - that's what the popular vote is for. Of course, that doesn't mean that it's always right, but it beats the other alternatives - apathy, for instance.
Wish I had some mod points for this one. +5 Insightful
"With every new inane law or result of a lawsuit that I hear, I get one step closer to leaving the United States. It's becoming a bloody corporate rape scene here in the States and I for one am just about at the end of my rope."
I agree with most of your points but I'm really getting tired of the "Hollywood Solution" to this country's problems. England has Madonna now, and they can have her for all I care. But you know, it figures. Artists like her and the Alec Baldwin's of the world made their money from the very system they want so desparately to escape (by the way Alec, your man lost - you can leave anytime now). Does Hollywood really provide the best moral basis to compare by?
This is the same kind of escapism that bubbled up to the top in the 60's. Maybe part of the problem is that there are fewer and fewer people actually willing to tackle these sorts of issues.
Ever meet anyone who didn't vote in an election because they felt that their vote didn't count? More escapism. The real truth is, they don't vote because the don't want to be blamed if it all goes to hell. Well, GROW UP! Take responsibility and DO something for once. People are people everywhere. If you really want to live somewhere better, why not start in your own backyard?
This country still has much to offer her people. Don't be so quick give up on her when things get rough.
In this economy, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice shouldn't be ignored. The OpenOffice project has provided a great way for us to provide free software to our students/staff, while giving us reasonable compatibility with MS Office.
Remember, MS Office 11 will be switching file formats again making things as incompatible as that disasterous MS Office 95. This is part of the lever I've been using with both schools and businesses here.
Agreed, and I'll add one more thing. The first distro that adds Windows Domain support - COMPLETE support will be the one I implement here.
My users get mapped drives and shares when they login to the domain. I need my users to have centralized information stored on a Windows-based server. The software we use have few analogs in the open source world, so our backend is likely to remain the same for the forseeable future.
All of this needs to be seamless, and it needs to happen reliably. I haven't seen that yet. The pieces parts are there, certainly, but no one has gotten it right yet.
My guess is, this is EXEACTLY what Red Hat is planning to do with their next Workstation version.
{What would be super cool is if I could figure out how to get MAME to work. I haven't been able to use it since version 0.32. Every time I click on the executable it does nothing. No windows open. No program launches. No errors. Nothing.} ...and this is exactly why you'll never see a major company put their roms in a MAME-enabled anything. Support costs like this will kill that idea.
If I had them, you'd be +5 cool for the 2010 reference. ;)
Our school just dumped the last of our payphones recently. I didn't know this, but they were actually costing US money!
With everyone using cell phones now, I guess the call for an occasional pizza wasn't paying for the upkeep of those things.
How about copy protection on a game like 'Battlefield 1942'? Just what is the point of putting copy protection on a game like this where the only point to it is the online aspect.
No one plays single player in BF - NO ONE. And even if you could deal with the lame computer AI, you gotta figure that this would only whet a pirate's appetite enough to get them to get a key for themselves.
Hey EA, why do you keep pissing off your PAYING customers with this crap?