http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm
these things are great. more expansion options and purpose built than the little boxes you might find on amazon or similar in the same category. really just more capable in general. passive cooling, runs anything you want to put on it, dedicated serial port.. GPIO, mPCIe expansion its perfect for this 'homebrew' stuff, especially a firewall/network appliance.
too bad we can't trust the companies that watch that information to be as reliable/organized/trustworthy as we appear to be from an informal numbering system.
good point, but all we've done is accepted spam as a fact of life and are creating ways to filter it or "deal" with it..unsolicted mail, advertisements and anything else you can imagine have been around since, well, people had something to sell. its only until now, that such things can be delivered to all over the world instantly have people begun to notice and make an issue out of it. although once you have products like yours in place, then yes, all thats left is licensing costs and support, which in any IT environment exists anyway.
i work for one of said "acme" companies. our monthly spam volume is in tens of millions. yes, we probably even have the product you gratefully work on so dilligently. though the numbers based on salary and time it takes to delete is more corporate jargon than anything.. a sales pitch if you will...created by the type of company you work for to sell their product to companies like mine. you pay your employee's much more everyday to go to lunch or take a smoke break than you do to delete spam... and how about the emails they actually read but have nothing to do with work... there is money lost everywhere, its "the cost of business."
i'm also not really arguing the statistics. i know the statistics and now, thanks to your insight, i know a little bit more. since we all know how much network bandwidth is consumed by just spam and viruses, what do we do about it? we offer larger pipes and more bandwidth to, sadly, the consumer markets where most of these spam bots and abusers are.
perhaps instead of creating technology products that filter spam and ultimately keep you in your current job, how about making a better, more reliable, more cost effective mail server or protocol that can help eliminate the NEED for spam filtering? but that wont happen because there is too much money to be made all around, in all sectors of IT.
seriously, its not just the spammers that are responsible, its everyone.
why do people make such big deal about spam anyway? sure its annoying and it accounts for most of the traffic on the net, but seriously, is your inbox really being bloated by spam everyday to a point where your time is wasted for hours?? please dont throw the "wasted resources" bit at me either, cause in reality, the only thing wasted is some server cycles and maybe some hard disk space that is eventually recovered anyway, oh and maybe a few minutes of your time. with services like gmail and all these advanced spam filters available for free or otherwise, how many spam emails does everyone really have to deal with on a daily basis?
secondly, how is spam any different than all the bullshit snail mail your get in your mailbox? coupons, missing children, targeted advertising and whatever else you can imagine. you dont look at any of that stuff, and if you say you do, your probably lying. you dont see coupon makers being jailed for sending out millions of coupons for stores that aren't even in your area. it takes more energy to *physically* remove email from your actual mailbox than it does clicking a few checkboxes or selecting many and hitting delete, not to mention all the natural resources wasted when compared to a few electronic pulses.
it seems when it comes to using computers, people are just more inherently lazy and unwilling to accept annoyances than they are in their day to day lives. if you dont want spam, dont throw you email address out in every form that asks for it. if the place your giving your email address is legitimate, then you generally have the abilty to opt out of soliciation emails.
personally, the whole spam phenomenon can really just be correlated back to peoples general ignorance and curiosity than anything else. i'm saddened by these tragic events, but honestly i think general society is more to blame than anyone else.
i think the show is pretty lame... i'll point out the sniper episode...
pedestrians get shot by a sniper....
CSI shows up... point "laser pen" in the direction the bullets came from... somehow, they see the "dot" at the top of a twenty story building 4 blocks away....
on the roof... there is an air conditioner...
surrounded by sand and pebbles...
there is a pile of sand on the air conditioner...
must be the sweet bag used by the sniper to help with accuracy..
just lame.. thats all.
I'm currently employed by a large health care provider. We use websense to block spyware, malicious content and of course unauthorized websites. Seems to work pretty good. The real problem is patch management for 25,000+ workstations.
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Georiga already has something similar to this. Construction, accidents, future changes. Pretty neat.
http://www.georgia-navigator.com/
Here in columbus, ga, they are building a new 60m dollar library. Its interesting the people I was speaking with about it yesterday said they thought libraries were a waste of money, that no one used them! I guess the results are in a show it to be a little different from what everyone expected.
at my office, i just deployed linux on most of the servers and since i'm the only one in this wonderful town that they can pay what they pay me to manage it all, i feel i might have their balls in my hand..
anything can happen though.
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http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm these things are great. more expansion options and purpose built than the little boxes you might find on amazon or similar in the same category. really just more capable in general. passive cooling, runs anything you want to put on it, dedicated serial port.. GPIO, mPCIe expansion its perfect for this 'homebrew' stuff, especially a firewall/network appliance.
too bad we can't trust the companies that watch that information to be as reliable/organized/trustworthy as we appear to be from an informal numbering system.
good point, but all we've done is accepted spam as a fact of life and are creating ways to filter it or "deal" with it..unsolicted mail, advertisements and anything else you can imagine have been around since, well, people had something to sell. its only until now, that such things can be delivered to all over the world instantly have people begun to notice and make an issue out of it. although once you have products like yours in place, then yes, all thats left is licensing costs and support, which in any IT environment exists anyway.
i work for one of said "acme" companies. our monthly spam volume is in tens of millions. yes, we probably even have the product you gratefully work on so dilligently. though the numbers based on salary and time it takes to delete is more corporate jargon than anything.. a sales pitch if you will...created by the type of company you work for to sell their product to companies like mine. you pay your employee's much more everyday to go to lunch or take a smoke break than you do to delete spam... and how about the emails they actually read but have nothing to do with work... there is money lost everywhere, its "the cost of business."
i'm also not really arguing the statistics. i know the statistics and now, thanks to your insight, i know a little bit more. since we all know how much network bandwidth is consumed by just spam and viruses, what do we do about it? we offer larger pipes and more bandwidth to, sadly, the consumer markets where most of these spam bots and abusers are.
perhaps instead of creating technology products that filter spam and ultimately keep you in your current job, how about making a better, more reliable, more cost effective mail server or protocol that can help eliminate the NEED for spam filtering? but that wont happen because there is too much money to be made all around, in all sectors of IT.
seriously, its not just the spammers that are responsible, its everyone.
why do people make such big deal about spam anyway? sure its annoying and it accounts for most of the traffic on the net, but seriously, is your inbox really being bloated by spam everyday to a point where your time is wasted for hours?? please dont throw the "wasted resources" bit at me either, cause in reality, the only thing wasted is some server cycles and maybe some hard disk space that is eventually recovered anyway, oh and maybe a few minutes of your time. with services like gmail and all these advanced spam filters available for free or otherwise, how many spam emails does everyone really have to deal with on a daily basis?
secondly, how is spam any different than all the bullshit snail mail your get in your mailbox? coupons, missing children, targeted advertising and whatever else you can imagine. you dont look at any of that stuff, and if you say you do, your probably lying. you dont see coupon makers being jailed for sending out millions of coupons for stores that aren't even in your area. it takes more energy to *physically* remove email from your actual mailbox than it does clicking a few checkboxes or selecting many and hitting delete, not to mention all the natural resources wasted when compared to a few electronic pulses.
it seems when it comes to using computers, people are just more inherently lazy and unwilling to accept annoyances than they are in their day to day lives. if you dont want spam, dont throw you email address out in every form that asks for it. if the place your giving your email address is legitimate, then you generally have the abilty to opt out of soliciation emails.
personally, the whole spam phenomenon can really just be correlated back to peoples general ignorance and curiosity than anything else. i'm saddened by these tragic events, but honestly i think general society is more to blame than anyone else.
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cares? really.
and all i got was a lousy t-shirt.
reminds me of a bumper sticker i see everyday in the parking lot.. "France: Irrelevant for over 150 years."
i think the show is pretty lame... i'll point out the sniper episode... pedestrians get shot by a sniper.... CSI shows up... point "laser pen" in the direction the bullets came from... somehow, they see the "dot" at the top of a twenty story building 4 blocks away.... on the roof... there is an air conditioner... surrounded by sand and pebbles... there is a pile of sand on the air conditioner... must be the sweet bag used by the sniper to help with accuracy.. just lame.. thats all.
when i purchased Cedega, i didn't buy the software, i just paid for 3 months of a transgaming membership.
I'm currently employed by a large health care provider. We use websense to block spyware, malicious content and of course unauthorized websites. Seems to work pretty good. The real problem is patch management for 25,000+ workstations.
Georiga already has something similar to this. Construction, accidents, future changes. Pretty neat. http://www.georgia-navigator.com/
I get my taxes done for free after setting up a Samba domain for a local accountant here in my area. Pretty nice if you ask me.
tarentella. Well, with some obvious "features" that would make it more valuable.
Here in columbus, ga, they are building a new 60m dollar library. Its interesting the people I was speaking with about it yesterday said they thought libraries were a waste of money, that no one used them! I guess the results are in a show it to be a little different from what everyone expected.
wow, what a release!
at my office, i just deployed linux on most of the servers and since i'm the only one in this wonderful town that they can pay what they pay me to manage it all, i feel i might have their balls in my hand.. anything can happen though.
i dont' have cable, i'm so sad...