So now it's just a matter of time before creationists start having archeologists arrested for digging up dinosaurs and interfering with their religion...
Article says he was offered $250K [wonder if that's cash?]... damn I'd sold. Used the money to tour the world, then apply for a job at Google.de
You'd be throwing away a bunch of money. A few years ago, a small mom-n-pop cable tv company out in New Mexico owned the roadrunner.com domain. My employer, a certain other, much larger cable modem company was understandably interested in that domain and they offered the owner a similar 250K low-ball figure.
The owner had an idea of what it would be worth to them so she declined. Then the larger company tried the bully approach, taking her to court and citing trademark infringement, etc. She knew she would probably win since it's the state bird of NM and had been part of the name of her company all along. She was right and she won the case. The larger company knew they were going to have to cough up the dough if they wanted that domain and they did. 8 figures worth.
(Oddly, I rarely use my embedded web-browser search box).
I actually use the embedded one exclusively, even though I have the google toolbar installed. Aside from regular searches, I'm often too lazy to open up a real calculator app for simple things, so I'll type in a calculation in that embedded search box and it pops up the "suggestion" which is the calc results without ever having to press the Enter key. For whatever reason, even though suggestions work, it does not display calc answers in the suggestion popup for the regular google toolbar.
What do you think? Is this snake oil, or is there something to this?
There is definitely something to this. At the ISP where I work, they have an excellent spam filtration system set up and it's very similar to what is being proposed. Our first line of defense here is a bit lower level though. As soon as a remote MTA makes a SYN connection to us, that ip is checked against the blacklist and if there's a match, the packet is simply dropped. This alone drops millions per hour.
If the message passes to the next step, it's given a quick envelope check and also makes an ldap check for the recipient. If it passes that, it's handed on again where a body check is done. This portion is done largely by a third party vendor's servers located here on site and takes care of checking for virii, as well as content checks and bayesian filtering. (Though our relationship with this vendor is pretty tight, my boss has actually written some code for them.) If it passes all of this, it's finally handed off to our MTA which does one more ldap check before passing it on to the LDA.
Overall, it does a great job of paring down the tens of millions of inbound delivery attempts to just a few hundred thousand actually delivered messages per day.
The same servers handle our customer outbound mail traffic and they do keep track of usage in an sql database for trend analysis. Any customers that exceed our delivery thresholds are automatically added to the blacklist and blocked during the syn packet check. It literally takes just a few minutes for an infected customer to be noticed and automatically blocked.
It works very well for us and mail servers that used to be under crushing load trying to handle all the spam traffic now perform very well and barely even break a sweat.
Me: OK, go to www.dimspace.com
Them: OK, I'll search for that. I'm on Yahoo.
Absolutely. But the funniest part is the way they say it. "I'm on Yahoo," with that subtle tone indicating they fully expect your next question to be wondering aloud what year they graduated from MIT.
Microsoft gets additional customer share from Linux, and has a diamond-crusted public whipping boy to prove once and for all Linux can't cut it in the big boys' world (business). We all know Linux can, but with big publicity coups I fear Microsoft gains more purchase in the PR war.
I wonder if you might be correct. I'm just coming off of a two week run of suse 10.2. I usually use freebsd as my desktop, but I thought I'd try 10.2 because it comes with xorg-7.2 and I wanted to try some of the gl mode desktop toys. From the get go, it was really slick. I installed it on an employer-provided Dell Inspiron 9300. Everything worked pretty easily, wireless wasn't too tough to get going, the touchpad scroll areas work which was a pleasant surprise, the front multimedia keys worked right away, and I really love how they've configured KDE.
Unfortunately, it went downhill after that. Just to mention a couple, Yast literally became unusable after a week. If I went into the network configuration and tried to edit an interface the whole gui would completely hang, although the same function would work fine in text mode. Eventually other yast control panels started following suit and just hanging. The other trouble I had was with the zen package management system. After I plugged in a handful of repositories it seemed like it was going to do a great job of keeping my system updated. Then I noticed what a *PIG* it was. I'd catch it during the day in the middle of doing a routine check for updates and it would be consuming two *HUNDRED* megabytes of ram. Using zen for even a simple package install, such as if I were installing something by clicking on an rpm link through firefox, would literally takes several minutes, even when I knew all the dependencies were satisfied. I could have probably lived with the slowness and excessive resource consumption if it would simply just work. Then all the repositories entries I had configured suddenly started vanishing...
Oh, and of course libxine is broken by default. Oh wait, that's actually a feature. DRM...
So today I installed a different distro to try out.
This could go far beyond simple security threats. Most of us have probably seen all the fax spam clogging up paper trays in offices everywhere. Imagine what the spammers could do with a vulnerability like this.
All of the sudden all of your documents are printing out with a new footer on every page. It'd be fscking priceless when the Human Resources girl prints out and distributes to everyone their updated copies of the company's sexual harrassment policy containing an ad asking me if I wanted to enlarge my penis...
And any dev who codes his app to check a file like this every day instead of caching it client-side should be smacked oh-my-god-so-frickin-hard.
Ironic because Netscape is guilty of this poor practive themselves. I have an old sun u2 box that I recently revived. I had a copy of netscape messaging server/netscape enterprise server on it (used by the isp where I worked at the time). I wanted to archive some old mail off of it before I wiped the drive. I couldn't start it up because there were so many files containing references to http://developer.netscape.com/products/servers/ent erprise/dtds/nes-webapps_6_1.dtd which of course doesn't even exist. Couldn't even start up until I replaced all references to that file with local file uri links.
MysSQL has a much larger user base than PostgreSQL, therefore the code is more tested and has historically been more stable than PostgreSQL and more used in production environments.
"Claiming that your RDBMS is the best in the world because more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."
Sorry, just an old joke that deserved retreading...;)
Anyone from southern Maine remember the old Peek and Poke newsletter?
Mike Procise, my old man, started one of the multitude of user groups, YUG, Your User Group, around here. I was around 13 then and those were fun times. He had me doing board level repairs on Commodores of various levels. There weren't many people around here who could actually fix a Commodore, so he made a little extra money and probably violated a child labor law or two in the process.;) Calibrating 1541's, resoldering chips, playing with eeprom chips to customize people's commodore's right from booting, all in a days work for me back then. How much of a geek was I, at that age, where I remember being utterly thrilled to have met Jim Butterfield in person at a Commodore convention.
Mike started the Peek and Poke newsletter primarily for the user group, but it grew larger and larger. Eventually Kinkos was getting far too much of our money so he started exploring ways of reproducing them ourselves. He bought an AB Dick "Desktop" printing press. It was a full fledged printing press that fit on your desk, providing your desk was able to hold something that weighed as much as a 383 magnum engine and shook like one too when it was running. It was eventually distributed to many hundreds, if not thousands of people, all over the place, with contributing writer's from all over. He was even nominated for a Jefferson Award, something given to people to recognize their contribution to a community.
Yes, but if you purchase the "Large" configuration from Sun, it comes with the optional camouflage/concealment package. Of course, I giant boulder with lots of wires coming out of it and a diesel generator parked next to it may arouse some suspicion.
Piers Anthony's August blog/newsletter is worth a read. He isn't the most technical person and I thought it was interesting to read someone of his skill level comparing a handful of Linux distros.
A friend recently posted the Sunday Creationist strip of Doonsbury in his blog. Very funny strip.
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...but for gameplay just look at stuff like CustomTF, RocketArena, MidAir, ClanArena. For that matter, I've yet to have a better co-op experience than quake right out of the box.
Absolutely. I ran a game server at the ISP I was working at and it became so popular they bought me a dual processor machine just for that. Other players really really hated us then. We had it positioned on the network so that we were 3 hops away from it, 15 or less ping times right from home over our cable modems. We were the original LPB's.:)
She took her time. A swipe swipe here, a swipe swipe there, here a swipe, there a swipe... After she satisfactorily buffed away the covering of my eyeball, she used an actual broom to sweep away the leftover shit in my eye. I know this because I heard her say the word "broom" before she used it. There were other tools used. Again I express my thanks to the inventors of those magical eyedrops. She continues to remove the last remnants of the covering of my eye like one might remove a proof of purchase from a can of Jif to win the $300,000 grand prize, gently now, don't want to ruin the serial number.
I've always wanted to know what MTA software they use at Yahoo. I've always assumed it was something homegrown, but have never heard anything one way or the other.
I was working at a large ISP and around six or seven years ago I was troubleshooting this exact problem. I noticed these same symptoms with yahoo where some of mx's were available sometimes, rarely, or never. This particular problem turned out to be that yahoo's MTA will not communicate with Post.Office, at the time a product of Software.com. Very bizarre. Even watching the traffic with a network sniffer, I could see no explanation at all.
The interim fix for that particular problem was to simply tell Post.Office to route all mail bound for yahoo.com addresses to a small Sun Ultra1 that I quickly put into production. I put postfix on it which came to the rescue just fine.
That's more extreme than I need. I'm only about 50-75% deaf in my left ear, but it's still usable. It's my dominant ear on the phone, for example, I just have to crank the volume up. At the moment, all I do with my ipod is just jam the left earbud in my ear rather tightly and leave the right one fairly loose.
Being half deaf on the left, I wish someone would figure out a "hack" for balance control. Pretty sad such an obvious control would have to be a hack though...
I use vim with a combination of the Viki plugin and GPG. Not too tough. Just make sure you've got the modeline set in your encrypted file: # vim: nobackup nowritebackup noswapfile bufhidden=wipe
Then a few auto commands in your.vimrc and you're good to go. I just press enter on my password file.gpg link and hit enter, vim takes care of allowing gpg to prompt for my passphrase and everything.
Sorry this might not be extremely useful to you yet... but if you have access to an IMAP server, you can use my script. It supports IMAP accounts and mbox files right now. I'm working on adding from a pop account, (about 75% complete). Then I might delve into other mailbox file formats.
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So now it's just a matter of time before creationists start having archeologists arrested for digging up dinosaurs and interfering with their religion...
You'd be throwing away a bunch of money. A few years ago, a small mom-n-pop cable tv company out in New Mexico owned the roadrunner.com domain. My employer, a certain other, much larger cable modem company was understandably interested in that domain and they offered the owner a similar 250K low-ball figure.
The owner had an idea of what it would be worth to them so she declined. Then the larger company tried the bully approach, taking her to court and citing trademark infringement, etc. She knew she would probably win since it's the state bird of NM and had been part of the name of her company all along. She was right and she won the case. The larger company knew they were going to have to cough up the dough if they wanted that domain and they did. 8 figures worth.
I actually use the embedded one exclusively, even though I have the google toolbar installed. Aside from regular searches, I'm often too lazy to open up a real calculator app for simple things, so I'll type in a calculation in that embedded search box and it pops up the "suggestion" which is the calc results without ever having to press the Enter key. For whatever reason, even though suggestions work, it does not display calc answers in the suggestion popup for the regular google toolbar.
Some irritable old lady in the human services office handling food stamp applications... "Your occupation sir?"
I'm sure that answer would go over really well.
There is definitely something to this. At the ISP where I work, they have an excellent spam filtration system set up and it's very similar to what is being proposed. Our first line of defense here is a bit lower level though. As soon as a remote MTA makes a SYN connection to us, that ip is checked against the blacklist and if there's a match, the packet is simply dropped. This alone drops millions per hour.
If the message passes to the next step, it's given a quick envelope check and also makes an ldap check for the recipient. If it passes that, it's handed on again where a body check is done. This portion is done largely by a third party vendor's servers located here on site and takes care of checking for virii, as well as content checks and bayesian filtering. (Though our relationship with this vendor is pretty tight, my boss has actually written some code for them.) If it passes all of this, it's finally handed off to our MTA which does one more ldap check before passing it on to the LDA.
Overall, it does a great job of paring down the tens of millions of inbound delivery attempts to just a few hundred thousand actually delivered messages per day.
The same servers handle our customer outbound mail traffic and they do keep track of usage in an sql database for trend analysis. Any customers that exceed our delivery thresholds are automatically added to the blacklist and blocked during the syn packet check. It literally takes just a few minutes for an infected customer to be noticed and automatically blocked.
It works very well for us and mail servers that used to be under crushing load trying to handle all the spam traffic now perform very well and barely even break a sweat.
Does this mean that each debater's point will be punctuated with Benny Hill skits and music? That would totally make it worth watching.
Them: OK, I'll search for that. I'm on Yahoo.
Absolutely. But the funniest part is the way they say it. "I'm on Yahoo," with that subtle tone indicating they fully expect your next question to be wondering aloud what year they graduated from MIT.
I wonder if you might be correct. I'm just coming off of a two week run of suse 10.2. I usually use freebsd as my desktop, but I thought I'd try 10.2 because it comes with xorg-7.2 and I wanted to try some of the gl mode desktop toys. From the get go, it was really slick. I installed it on an employer-provided Dell Inspiron 9300. Everything worked pretty easily, wireless wasn't too tough to get going, the touchpad scroll areas work which was a pleasant surprise, the front multimedia keys worked right away, and I really love how they've configured KDE.
Unfortunately, it went downhill after that. Just to mention a couple, Yast literally became unusable after a week. If I went into the network configuration and tried to edit an interface the whole gui would completely hang, although the same function would work fine in text mode. Eventually other yast control panels started following suit and just hanging. The other trouble I had was with the zen package management system. After I plugged in a handful of repositories it seemed like it was going to do a great job of keeping my system updated. Then I noticed what a *PIG* it was. I'd catch it during the day in the middle of doing a routine check for updates and it would be consuming two *HUNDRED* megabytes of ram. Using zen for even a simple package install, such as if I were installing something by clicking on an rpm link through firefox, would literally takes several minutes, even when I knew all the dependencies were satisfied. I could have probably lived with the slowness and excessive resource consumption if it would simply just work. Then all the repositories entries I had configured suddenly started vanishing...
Oh, and of course libxine is broken by default. Oh wait, that's actually a feature. DRM...
So today I installed a different distro to try out.
This could go far beyond simple security threats. Most of us have probably seen all the fax spam clogging up paper trays in offices everywhere. Imagine what the spammers could do with a vulnerability like this.
All of the sudden all of your documents are printing out with a new footer on every page. It'd be fscking priceless when the Human Resources girl prints out and distributes to everyone their updated copies of the company's sexual harrassment policy containing an ad asking me if I wanted to enlarge my penis...
Ironic because Netscape is guilty of this poor practive themselves. I have an old sun u2 box that I recently revived. I had a copy of netscape messaging server/netscape enterprise server on it (used by the isp where I worked at the time). I wanted to archive some old mail off of it before I wiped the drive. I couldn't start it up because there were so many files containing references to http://developer.netscape.com/products/servers/ent erprise/dtds/nes-webapps_6_1.dtd which of course doesn't even exist. Couldn't even start up until I replaced all references to that file with local file uri links.
MysSQL has a much larger user base than PostgreSQL, therefore the code is more tested and has historically been more stable than PostgreSQL and more used in production environments.
"Claiming that your RDBMS is the best in the world because more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world."
Sorry, just an old joke that deserved retreading... ;)
Interesting. That makes me wonder, could someone go and renew their license yet refuse to have their picture taken citing the 5th amendment.
Anyone from southern Maine remember the old Peek and Poke newsletter?
Mike Procise, my old man, started one of the multitude of user groups, YUG, Your User Group, around here. I was around 13 then and those were fun times. He had me doing board level repairs on Commodores of various levels. There weren't many people around here who could actually fix a Commodore, so he made a little extra money and probably violated a child labor law or two in the process. ;) Calibrating 1541's, resoldering chips, playing with eeprom chips to customize people's commodore's right from booting, all in a days work for me back then. How much of a geek was I, at that age, where I remember being utterly thrilled to have met Jim Butterfield in person at a Commodore convention.
Mike started the Peek and Poke newsletter primarily for the user group, but it grew larger and larger. Eventually Kinkos was getting far too much of our money so he started exploring ways of reproducing them ourselves. He bought an AB Dick "Desktop" printing press. It was a full fledged printing press that fit on your desk, providing your desk was able to hold something that weighed as much as a 383 magnum engine and shook like one too when it was running. It was eventually distributed to many hundreds, if not thousands of people, all over the place, with contributing writer's from all over. He was even nominated for a Jefferson Award, something given to people to recognize their contribution to a community.
Any folks who remember, send me a shout.
-- Andy
Yes, but if you purchase the "Large" configuration from Sun, it comes with the optional camouflage/concealment package. Of course, I giant boulder with lots of wires coming out of it and a diesel generator parked next to it may arouse some suspicion.
Piers Anthony's August blog/newsletter is worth a read. He isn't the most technical person and I thought it was interesting to read someone of his skill level comparing a handful of Linux distros.
A friend recently posted the Sunday Creationist strip of Doonsbury in his blog. Very funny strip.
...but for gameplay just look at stuff like CustomTF, RocketArena, MidAir, ClanArena. For that matter, I've yet to have a better co-op experience than quake right out of the box.
:)
Absolutely. I ran a game server at the ISP I was working at and it became so popular they bought me a dual processor machine just for that. Other players really really hated us then. We had it positioned on the network so that we were 3 hops away from it, 15 or less ping times right from home over our cable modems. We were the original LPB's.
Not...
I had it a couple years ago. I reposted my blog entry afterwards here in my slashdot journal.
Excerpt:She took her time. A swipe swipe here, a swipe swipe there, here a swipe, there a swipe... After she satisfactorily buffed away the covering of my eyeball, she used an actual broom to sweep away the leftover shit in my eye. I know this because I heard her say the word "broom" before she used it. There were other tools used. Again I express my thanks to the inventors of those magical eyedrops. She continues to remove the last remnants of the covering of my eye like one might remove a proof of purchase from a can of Jif to win the $300,000 grand prize, gently now, don't want to ruin the serial number.
I've always wanted to know what MTA software they use at Yahoo. I've always assumed it was something homegrown, but have never heard anything one way or the other.
I was working at a large ISP and around six or seven years ago I was troubleshooting this exact problem. I noticed these same symptoms with yahoo where some of mx's were available sometimes, rarely, or never. This particular problem turned out to be that yahoo's MTA will not communicate with Post.Office, at the time a product of Software.com. Very bizarre. Even watching the traffic with a network sniffer, I could see no explanation at all.
The interim fix for that particular problem was to simply tell Post.Office to route all mail bound for yahoo.com addresses to a small Sun Ultra1 that I quickly put into production. I put postfix on it which came to the rescue just fine.
FYI, you can delete google bookmarks. Just unstar it.
That's more extreme than I need. I'm only about 50-75% deaf in my left ear, but it's still usable. It's my dominant ear on the phone, for example, I just have to crank the volume up. At the moment, all I do with my ipod is just jam the left earbud in my ear rather tightly and leave the right one fairly loose.
Being half deaf on the left, I wish someone would figure out a "hack" for balance control. Pretty sad such an obvious control would have to be a hack though...
Tip for Firefox users. Adblock extension, add filter, *.wmf, click Ok...
I use vim with a combination of the Viki plugin and GPG. Not too tough. Just make sure you've got the modeline set in your encrypted file: # vim: nobackup nowritebackup noswapfile bufhidden=wipe
Then a few auto commands in your .vimrc and you're good to go. I just press enter on my password file.gpg link and hit enter, vim takes care of allowing gpg to prompt for my passphrase and everything.
Sorry this might not be extremely useful to you yet... but if you have access to an IMAP server, you can use my script. It supports IMAP accounts and mbox files right now. I'm working on adding from a pop account, (about 75% complete). Then I might delve into other mailbox file formats.