Sendmail is listening on port 587 as well as the standard port 25! What is going on?
Recent versions of Sendmail support a mail submission feature that runs over port 587. This is not yet widely supported, but is growing in popularity.
Now if listening to port 587 for SMTP is gaining popularity then thats just another reason I should not use it as once residential broadband isp's get wind of it they might start blocking that port too. This is a cat and mouse game staying away from the crowd is they way to go IMO.
True, that would be the better approach, but they want a very simple solution and so far POP3/SMTP has been working fine. I've been trying to explain the virtues of RPC over HTTP (MAPI), or even SSL IMAP / SSL SMTP but VPN is out of the question (For some reason CIO doesnt like the word). Besides this solution is universal for everyone, not just the road warriors, which means less confusion in documentation.
I do run authentication and SSL is on its way, but care explaining why port 587 would be any better than, say, 26? Am I missing something here? Did I just not get the memo or were you trying to be funny.
As a mail administrator for a medium size company I've had to deal with residential broadband ISPs blocking access to port 25 a lot lately. It was a headache explaining to employees that work at home, at the office, and at customer sites, that they must change their outgoing SMTP setting in Outlook depending on their location. This is a true PITA as lots of times your not supplied with that information (or at least it is not obvious to the non-technical people), for example, internet access in hotel rooms.
For a while the quick and dirty solution was to use webmail when in doubt but we needed something that people could live with and as much as I dislike M$ Outlook its a lot better than Horde, Neo, or Sruirrel Mail (IMO).
My 80% solution now is to handle SMTP on both ports 25 and, hehe, 26. So far so good, I'm able to go between the office and home on my laptop with no problems where as before Cox Cable wouldnt let me get to our SMTP server.
I'm wondering what other admins have had to do in this situation. I know I'm not alone here. And how do you think it will effect the propogation of spam in the future.
ATI's goal is to offer a complete HDTV solution for an MSRP of $199. The package will include the HDTV Wonder, a Remote Wonder and a yet to be determined antenna. Throw in a potent Multimedia Center 9 and you have the makings for a sweet HDTV experience. To get the full experience of the card, users will need to use it in conjunction with an ATI graphics card to take advantage of such features as ThruView and Video Desktop, but the card will work with other DirectX 9 compatible OEM products otherwise.
Too bad MythPC's track record for supporting ATI hardware hasn't been the greatest. If your on the windows side of the fence I suggest looking at Media Portal. Its fairly new to the HTPC scene but looks promising and works with just about any card.
Being a Radeon 7500 All in Wonder user I'm very happy to see the HDTV Wonder as a PCI card. I was sure when I bought my AGP 7500 AIW it was going to be the last card I would need in a very long time.
The conference room used for the first discussions had been converted to a war room. The whiteboards were filled with IP addresses gathered by the help desk of systems suspected of being infected and trying to propagate the worm. Another list for all of the nonfunctional pay systems covered the entire portable whiteboard. These systems would have to be patched before they could be used to receive payments again.
Red Alert! All senior officers to the battle bridge. Prepare for saucer seperation in T minus 3 minutes and counting.
Picard: Data, can you locate the origin of infection?
Data: It will take aproximatly 10 minutes to scan each subnet.
Picard: We don't have that kind of time. Number One, options?
Riker: Disconnect the OC3 and raise the firewall, leave no ports open.
Captain: That should buy us some time but we need a better solution than that.
Diana: I am sensing something captain, it feels as if the SUS server has fallen offline, we may have missed the latest patches
Data: Her hypothesis could be correct
We are the Borg, We will assimilate you!
Captain: Damn, and here I was thinking it was The Boy and his nanites again
Now if only YahooPOPs could update their project to be compatible with Yahoo Mail I would be using Thunderbird again.
I just recently rebuilt my g/f's computer, removing IE, MSN, etc, and installing OO.o, Firefox, and the like. (Thank you the open cd) She liked how fast her computer was now that the spyware was gone, but she could NOT stand how Firefox rendered the fonts on the Yahoo Mail page "incorrectly" (dear God! What will I do now!). Thankfully I ran across this nifty little project on source forge called Yahoo Pops which acts as a SMTP/POP3 server on localhost and bridges the gap between your favoriate email client and the Yahoo Webmail service. That evening I VNC'd into her computer, installed YahooPOPs and Thunderbird 0.6 and hooked her up with a cute theme with a rotating penguin in the top right (She's all about some Tux racer). I showed her how to use it and she loved it. No more ads, no more waiting for the web pages to load, spell checking, the whole 9!
But just when I thought I had sold her on the wonderfullness that is Open Source (I'm on my way to getting her to suse) Yahoo decided they are going to try to compete with G-Mail and offer 100MB to their free customers, as well as a few other minor "improvements". To make a long story short the upgrade broke YahooPOPs and thus Thunderbird. We were both very disapointed.
Now she found a way to open IE by typing "iexplore" on the run line and is using Yahoo Mail again. Its going to be hard to get her to try open source again, but for some reason she cant keep off Tux Racer. (PS: Go neverball!).
Any advice on ways to keep her using Thunderbird? Its really a great product and if my company wasnt tied religiously to MS Outbreak I would be putting it on every desktop in the place.
And all you people were complaining about how lame the surfing lightsaber battle between obi-wan and anakin was going to be. Ha, in your face now! They'll be on centrino surfboards!
I am definatly interested in more efficient power suplies, as well as more efficient processors. I have just recently built an arcade system dedicated to the game NeverBall and NeverPutt which uses a 7" LCD and a Trackball for input. The PC sits under the bar and idles most of the day. The 600MHz Celeron CPU uses little power, and I'm sure a Transmeta or Via C3 would use even less but its what I had. My main concern with leaving the box on all of the time is the power drain. Already with a MythPC and a Squid box running all the time my powerbill is in the 100-150 range for a guy a cat and an apartment.
The PSU in the NeverBall-Box is a 250Watt ATX from Compusa (not sure who makes compusa brand PSU). I once ran across a link on/. which showed what the average powersuply costs in $/mo but I cant seem to find it right now. I use a power brick for my laptop and see similar products for sale for Mini-ITX PC's. Is there a way to use these for an ATX and are they more efficient than normal PSU?
PS: OT: Anyone else have issues with neverball and ATI? Got texture probs with Rage and Radeon on XP. Sorry so off topic.
In my experience with mobile 3D gaming so far (Visor, iPaq, Samsung 8100), the only thing that has been truly enjoyable was Dan East's wonderful port of Quake to the Pocket PC. I've been playing it since Beta 0.062 in 2001 and it has really evolved into a very playable game on the iPaq. With a PCMCIA wifi card I was able to walk around a large LAN party fragging to my hearts content. It was especially fun sitting next to my opponents and seeing the look on their faces when they saw that I was playing on a handheld. Hats off to Dan East, you rock.
With Stinger (smart) phones around the corner, and ATI with its latest mobile graphics chips, I expect we might see Quake on a cell phone. I think I saw a demo video from last years E3 of Quake on a 2" LCD for a cell phone, but I remember seeing the Pocket PC interface before the game launched so I'm not sure if the game has been ported.
Thank god we could. I dont know about you but the second I noticed something was terribly wrong with the net I started opening every slashdot story on the homepage in different tabs...
I noticed this problem this morning when I was hunting for an updated version of YahooPOPs. I wasnt getting replies from Google. I opened another FirePanda window and my homepage, slashdot, was working fine (Hey look at that on the homepage, Yahoo changed their mail service today, no luck for YahooPOPs). I tried yahoo, altavista, even msn in different tabs but I wasnt getting anywhere.
I tried pinging google and I was getting a reply so my first thought was, there is something terribly wrong at verizon DSL. I must make the most of what fragmented connection I have now before its down all day and I'm stranded actually doing work.
Thats when I started opening every story on slashdot's homepage in different tabs and setting them all to threshold 3, threaded... Just incase.
Come to think of it, I'm going to change my slashdot bookmark from slashdot.org to 66.35.250.151 just incase of DNS failure.
This mod reminds me a lot of my PC mod. I'm not trying to tute my own wistle here, just offer some insight into the wonderful things one can do with something as simple as silver loom and offer some advice
My friends and I got into the case mod thing a while back. I ended up getting a nice case with a window, threw in a few blue cold cathodes, and watched in glee as all of my friends and I had the same exact thing albeit different colored LEDs and Neons. Wippdie-do. I needed something to make mine look a little different than my friends so aside from doing the invisible CD drive mod (case simplicity is bliss), I loomed all of my power and IDE cords with chrome loom you can pick up from automotive shops like Advance or Auto Zone.
I also found the chrome loom at a few online retailers but the price was ridicilious. I think I ended up getting a few feet of the stuff from a local auto shop from the StreetGlow brand. This stuff can really make what used to be a boring case something plesant on the eyes. It really accents the colored LEDs or Neons in your case.
The tricky part is figuring out how much to cut for each strip of wite. I suggest laying out all of your drives in your case and connecting the molexes. Make sure to leave an extra molex near the bottom for future upgrade as I'm sure most new graphics cards will require them. Cut the loom to size of the wire with a litte bit extra which can nicely cover that ugly molex. I went with 1/4" loom which worked perfectly for that huge motherboard connector, and works great with room to spare on the rounded IDE cables. If you want to give it something a little extra get some 1/8" also and use it for the smaller cables. I was going to cover my water cooling tubes with the stuff but that was a bit over kill. Still, the case looks more like something out of a badass anime while all of my friends cases look just about the same.
You can also try colored chrome loom instead of traditional silver but since I've got blue lights I wanted as much reflection as possible.
Has anyone else had experience with this, what problems did you run across? Can you share some advice?
I was about to go to a big anual LAN party in my area when my second 256 stick of DDR died. Having had just got a new Dell workstation in the office with 2GB ram I figured nobody would notice over the weekend if I borrowed 2 512 sticks (to run in dual on my nForce2 of course). My 2 256'ers were CAS 2.5, the 512'ers were CAS 3. I actually lost 20 FPS in UT2003 because of the ram. I figured that doubling the ammount of ram would equal out the "minor" speed difference.
Long story short I went to the lan party with just a 256 and did just fine, but when I got the extra bucks I splurged for Cas2 ram. I remember it not being too much at newegg, maybe $100 for two 256 sticks of Giel or OCZ, and while I'm not a freak that has to have 2-2-2 I did get 2 sticks with 2-3-4 (or something, its been a while). The new CAS 2 ram has made a bigger performance boost than it would had I spent over twice as much upgrading from a Radeon 9500 Pro to a 9600XT, or 9800.
PS: Ever notice that the 9500 Pro's are so much more expensive than the 9600 XT's? Twice the pipes baby!
I'm bringing $1640 home a month after taxes. If your really that interested my rent is $700. That leaves me with about $940. Sure, as another poster said, I could live in a place down the road some where I would get stabbed, shot, or have my place broken into and my hardware stolen, for a mere $450/Mo but is it really worth it?
Its amazing to think that if I were to live in my freakin car for a month relying only on my inverter, laptop, and wireless card, I would have saved over $1000.
The biggest expense right now is rent, and second to that is the G/F. Girls are expensive, can I get an Amen?
I guess now that G4 ate Tech TV I can get rid of Basic and digital cable and save an extra $50/mo, but that translates into famele as "I've got $50 extra to take you out now"
For the longest time I was living from paycheck to paycheck. Compared to my friends I made some pretty good money for being 20 (30K/Yr) but it didnt seem like much when you were living on your own with rent, insurance, car payments, electric, cable, phone, water, and a girlfriend. Its amazing how things add up. It just so happens that I receive the first paycheck of the month on the same day that rent is due. After paying rent I'm left with about $100. It is also convenient that the second and last paycheck of the month is received on the same day that all of the bills are due. After paying them I'm left with $300. Note I havent mentioned the G/F tax yet but that one is expensive.
Anyway, my tip is, next time you get a bonus, tax returns, some lump sum of money, spend it on next months rent before you can do anything else with it. Trust me on this. If you put it in your savings you can too easily transfer it to checking when you see Wizz-Bang4000 on pricewatch for only $499! I do this every chance I get and it really helps out a lot.
Now if I could only figure out what to do with the SO.
I too used to like those amuzing proggies, but now I'm near afraid to download a NO-CD crack for a game I purchased, or a serial generator for an old game I lost the cover for. Spy/Ad/Mal/ware is filthing up the net way too much. My evidence follows:
Exibit A:
A friend of mine and I decided to play with PhotoShop and 3D Studio one night and come up with wallpapers. We've all done it hu? After completing our masterpieces we decided to give something back to the community so we uploaded our works to ThemeXP.org. This at the time new website was gaining popularity and looked innocent enough to give our art away to. It wasnt until almost one year later that I checked on my friends wallpaper on ThemeXP.org at this location and found that not only was the wallpaper doing alright having been downloaded 758 times, but the wallpaper had been encapsulated in spyware! A WALLPAPER, WITH SPYWARE! WTF have we come to. The site had a note at the bottom which said:
* This author has generously allowed us to wrap this file to help keep our costs down.
My friend does not remember clicking any checkbox saying it was ok to shit on his wallpaper with crapware, but then again nor does he remember not checking a box. At this point it doesnt really matter, it wasnt that good of a wallpaper. I dont feel sorry for my buddy, I feel bad for the 758 people who downloaded the crap-ridden wallpaper.
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
If you paste your URL into the address bar and hit ALT+Enter the URL will open in a new tab.
This is only a partial solution.
Sometimes I will highlight the URL and right click selecting "Web Search For ''" which will open a new tab with a google search on the URL. This is a partial solution also.
What I would love in addition to the "Web Search For..." context menu would be a "Wikipedia Search for...", and "Google Define: for..." but maybe I'm just too picky.
My bank, chesbank.com, has a nice interface and is very useful however the security has a few flaws in my opinion. They do clain that you need a browser supporting 128bit SSL and even though they say you need internet explorer it works just fine in Mozilla. I like the fact that I get to choose my logon name, and can change it whenever I want. The password must be changed every 3 months which is a good policy but I think it should be shorter. I do not like the fact that the password *MUST* be 6 characters long. I have a good secure password which is easy to remember, including 2 numbers, 2 lower, and 2 capital letters, but I cannot use it on this system. Why in the world they decided all passwords must be 6 characters is beyond me. If I ever forget my password I need to send email to their support address and within a few hours it is reset to the last 4 digits of my social security number. No doubt there are better ways to do this.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok, I googled a bit and found:
Sendmail is listening on port 587 as well as the standard port 25! What is going on?
Recent versions of Sendmail support a mail submission feature that runs over port 587. This is not yet widely supported, but is growing in popularity.
Now if listening to port 587 for SMTP is gaining popularity then thats just another reason I should not use it as once residential broadband isp's get wind of it they might start blocking that port too. This is a cat and mouse game staying away from the crowd is they way to go IMO.
Thoughts?
True, that would be the better approach, but they want a very simple solution and so far POP3/SMTP has been working fine. I've been trying to explain the virtues of RPC over HTTP (MAPI), or even SSL IMAP / SSL SMTP but VPN is out of the question (For some reason CIO doesnt like the word). Besides this solution is universal for everyone, not just the road warriors, which means less confusion in documentation.
Ok, this is the first I've heard of this. Got any references I should check out? Googling "Port 587" isn't leading me anywhere useful yet.
I do run authentication and SSL is on its way, but care explaining why port 587 would be any better than, say, 26? Am I missing something here? Did I just not get the memo or were you trying to be funny.
As a mail administrator for a medium size company I've had to deal with residential broadband ISPs blocking access to port 25 a lot lately. It was a headache explaining to employees that work at home, at the office, and at customer sites, that they must change their outgoing SMTP setting in Outlook depending on their location. This is a true PITA as lots of times your not supplied with that information (or at least it is not obvious to the non-technical people), for example, internet access in hotel rooms.
For a while the quick and dirty solution was to use webmail when in doubt but we needed something that people could live with and as much as I dislike M$ Outlook its a lot better than Horde, Neo, or Sruirrel Mail (IMO).
My 80% solution now is to handle SMTP on both ports 25 and, hehe, 26. So far so good, I'm able to go between the office and home on my laptop with no problems where as before Cox Cable wouldnt let me get to our SMTP server.
I'm wondering what other admins have had to do in this situation. I know I'm not alone here. And how do you think it will effect the propogation of spam in the future.
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ATI's goal is to offer a complete HDTV solution for an MSRP of $199. The package will include the HDTV Wonder, a Remote Wonder and a yet to be determined antenna. Throw in a potent Multimedia Center 9 and you have the makings for a sweet HDTV experience. To get the full experience of the card, users will need to use it in conjunction with an ATI graphics card to take advantage of such features as ThruView and Video Desktop, but the card will work with other DirectX 9 compatible OEM products otherwise.
Too bad MythPC's track record for supporting ATI hardware hasn't been the greatest. If your on the windows side of the fence I suggest looking at Media Portal. Its fairly new to the HTPC scene but looks promising and works with just about any card.
Being a Radeon 7500 All in Wonder user I'm very happy to see the HDTV Wonder as a PCI card. I was sure when I bought my AGP 7500 AIW it was going to be the last card I would need in a very long time.
The conference room used for the first discussions had been converted to a war room. The whiteboards were filled with IP addresses gathered by the help desk of systems suspected of being infected and trying to propagate the worm. Another list for all of the nonfunctional pay systems covered the entire portable whiteboard. These systems would have to be patched before they could be used to receive payments again.
:)
Red Alert! All senior officers to the battle bridge. Prepare for saucer seperation in T minus 3 minutes and counting.
Picard: Data, can you locate the origin of infection?
Data: It will take aproximatly 10 minutes to scan each subnet.
Picard: We don't have that kind of time. Number One, options?
Riker: Disconnect the OC3 and raise the firewall, leave no ports open.
Captain: That should buy us some time but we need a better solution than that.
Diana: I am sensing something captain, it feels as if the SUS server has fallen offline, we may have missed the latest patches
Data: Her hypothesis could be correct
We are the Borg, We will assimilate you!
Captain: Damn, and here I was thinking it was The Boy and his nanites again
No offense Wil
Now if only YahooPOPs could update their project to be compatible with Yahoo Mail I would be using Thunderbird again.
I just recently rebuilt my g/f's computer, removing IE, MSN, etc, and installing OO.o, Firefox, and the like. (Thank you the open cd ) She liked how fast her computer was now that the spyware was gone, but she could NOT stand how Firefox rendered the fonts on the Yahoo Mail page "incorrectly" (dear God! What will I do now!). Thankfully I ran across this nifty little project on source forge called Yahoo Pops which acts as a SMTP/POP3 server on localhost and bridges the gap between your favoriate email client and the Yahoo Webmail service. That evening I VNC'd into her computer, installed YahooPOPs and Thunderbird 0.6 and hooked her up with a cute theme with a rotating penguin in the top right (She's all about some Tux racer). I showed her how to use it and she loved it. No more ads, no more waiting for the web pages to load, spell checking, the whole 9!
But just when I thought I had sold her on the wonderfullness that is Open Source (I'm on my way to getting her to suse) Yahoo decided they are going to try to compete with G-Mail and offer 100MB to their free customers, as well as a few other minor "improvements". To make a long story short the upgrade broke YahooPOPs and thus Thunderbird. We were both very disapointed.
Now she found a way to open IE by typing "iexplore" on the run line and is using Yahoo Mail again. Its going to be hard to get her to try open source again, but for some reason she cant keep off Tux Racer. (PS: Go neverball!).
Any advice on ways to keep her using Thunderbird? Its really a great product and if my company wasnt tied religiously to MS Outbreak I would be putting it on every desktop in the place.
I was refering to your Windows XP skin, not your Mozilla theme. Happen to know the name / where you got it? Thanks.
And all you people were complaining about how lame the surfing lightsaber battle between obi-wan and anakin was going to be. Ha, in your face now! They'll be on centrino surfboards!
What skin/theme is that for XP? URL welcome.
I am definatly interested in more efficient power suplies, as well as more efficient processors. I have just recently built an arcade system dedicated to the game NeverBall and NeverPutt which uses a 7" LCD and a Trackball for input. The PC sits under the bar and idles most of the day. The 600MHz Celeron CPU uses little power, and I'm sure a Transmeta or Via C3 would use even less but its what I had. My main concern with leaving the box on all of the time is the power drain. Already with a MythPC and a Squid box running all the time my powerbill is in the 100-150 range for a guy a cat and an apartment.
/. which showed what the average powersuply costs in $/mo but I cant seem to find it right now. I use a power brick for my laptop and see similar products for sale for Mini-ITX PC's. Is there a way to use these for an ATX and are they more efficient than normal PSU?
The PSU in the NeverBall-Box is a 250Watt ATX from Compusa (not sure who makes compusa brand PSU). I once ran across a link on
PS: OT: Anyone else have issues with neverball and ATI? Got texture probs with Rage and Radeon on XP. Sorry so off topic.
In my experience with mobile 3D gaming so far (Visor, iPaq, Samsung 8100), the only thing that has been truly enjoyable was Dan East's wonderful port of Quake to the Pocket PC. I've been playing it since Beta 0.062 in 2001 and it has really evolved into a very playable game on the iPaq. With a PCMCIA wifi card I was able to walk around a large LAN party fragging to my hearts content. It was especially fun sitting next to my opponents and seeing the look on their faces when they saw that I was playing on a handheld. Hats off to Dan East, you rock.
With Stinger (smart) phones around the corner, and ATI with its latest mobile graphics chips, I expect we might see Quake on a cell phone. I think I saw a demo video from last years E3 of Quake on a 2" LCD for a cell phone, but I remember seeing the Pocket PC interface before the game launched so I'm not sure if the game has been ported.
Dan, if your out there how about some insight?
Thank god we could. I dont know about you but the second I noticed something was terribly wrong with the net I started opening every slashdot story on the homepage in different tabs. ..
You know... Just incase
I noticed this problem this morning when I was hunting for an updated version of YahooPOPs. I wasnt getting replies from Google. I opened another FirePanda window and my homepage, slashdot, was working fine (Hey look at that on the homepage, Yahoo changed their mail service today, no luck for YahooPOPs). I tried yahoo, altavista, even msn in different tabs but I wasnt getting anywhere.
I tried pinging google and I was getting a reply so my first thought was, there is something terribly wrong at verizon DSL. I must make the most of what fragmented connection I have now before its down all day and I'm stranded actually doing work.
Thats when I started opening every story on slashdot's homepage in different tabs and setting them all to threshold 3, threaded... Just incase.
Come to think of it, I'm going to change my slashdot bookmark from slashdot.org to 66.35.250.151 just incase of DNS failure.
Need my SlashCrack
This mod reminds me a lot of my PC mod. I'm not trying to tute my own wistle here, just offer some insight into the wonderful things one can do with something as simple as silver loom and offer some advice
My friends and I got into the case mod thing a while back. I ended up getting a nice case with a window, threw in a few blue cold cathodes, and watched in glee as all of my friends and I had the same exact thing albeit different colored LEDs and Neons. Wippdie-do. I needed something to make mine look a little different than my friends so aside from doing the invisible CD drive mod (case simplicity is bliss), I loomed all of my power and IDE cords with chrome loom you can pick up from automotive shops like Advance or Auto Zone.
I also found the chrome loom at a few online retailers but the price was ridicilious. I think I ended up getting a few feet of the stuff from a local auto shop from the StreetGlow brand. This stuff can really make what used to be a boring case something plesant on the eyes. It really accents the colored LEDs or Neons in your case.
The tricky part is figuring out how much to cut for each strip of wite. I suggest laying out all of your drives in your case and connecting the molexes. Make sure to leave an extra molex near the bottom for future upgrade as I'm sure most new graphics cards will require them. Cut the loom to size of the wire with a litte bit extra which can nicely cover that ugly molex. I went with 1/4" loom which worked perfectly for that huge motherboard connector, and works great with room to spare on the rounded IDE cables. If you want to give it something a little extra get some 1/8" also and use it for the smaller cables. I was going to cover my water cooling tubes with the stuff but that was a bit over kill. Still, the case looks more like something out of a badass anime while all of my friends cases look just about the same.
You can also try colored chrome loom instead of traditional silver but since I've got blue lights I wanted as much reflection as possible.
Has anyone else had experience with this, what problems did you run across? Can you share some advice?
Maybe with this new DSL I'll actually be able to download movies from Starz
But seriously, bring on the bandwidth. Hopefully it wont be something stupid like 199mbps down, 1mbps up.
Smelly Cat, Smelly cat what are they feeding you?
Smelly Cat, smelly cat it's not your fault...
They won't take you to the vet.
You're obviously not their favorite pet.
You may not be a bed of roses,
And you're no friend to those with noses.
Smelly cat, smelly cat what are they feeding you?
Smelly cat, smelly cat it's not your fault!
Had to say it.
I was about to go to a big anual LAN party in my area when my second 256 stick of DDR died. Having had just got a new Dell workstation in the office with 2GB ram I figured nobody would notice over the weekend if I borrowed 2 512 sticks (to run in dual on my nForce2 of course). My 2 256'ers were CAS 2.5, the 512'ers were CAS 3. I actually lost 20 FPS in UT2003 because of the ram. I figured that doubling the ammount of ram would equal out the "minor" speed difference.
Long story short I went to the lan party with just a 256 and did just fine, but when I got the extra bucks I splurged for Cas2 ram. I remember it not being too much at newegg, maybe $100 for two 256 sticks of Giel or OCZ, and while I'm not a freak that has to have 2-2-2 I did get 2 sticks with 2-3-4 (or something, its been a while). The new CAS 2 ram has made a bigger performance boost than it would had I spent over twice as much upgrading from a Radeon 9500 Pro to a 9600XT, or 9800.
PS: Ever notice that the 9500 Pro's are so much more expensive than the 9600 XT's? Twice the pipes baby!
I'm bringing $1640 home a month after taxes. If your really that interested my rent is $700. That leaves me with about $940. Sure, as another poster said, I could live in a place down the road some where I would get stabbed, shot, or have my place broken into and my hardware stolen, for a mere $450/Mo but is it really worth it?
Its amazing to think that if I were to live in my freakin car for a month relying only on my inverter, laptop, and wireless card, I would have saved over $1000.
The biggest expense right now is rent, and second to that is the G/F. Girls are expensive, can I get an Amen?
I guess now that G4 ate Tech TV I can get rid of Basic and digital cable and save an extra $50/mo, but that translates into famele as "I've got $50 extra to take you out now"
For the longest time I was living from paycheck to paycheck. Compared to my friends I made some pretty good money for being 20 (30K/Yr) but it didnt seem like much when you were living on your own with rent, insurance, car payments, electric, cable, phone, water, and a girlfriend. Its amazing how things add up. It just so happens that I receive the first paycheck of the month on the same day that rent is due. After paying rent I'm left with about $100. It is also convenient that the second and last paycheck of the month is received on the same day that all of the bills are due. After paying them I'm left with $300. Note I havent mentioned the G/F tax yet but that one is expensive.
Anyway, my tip is, next time you get a bonus, tax returns, some lump sum of money, spend it on next months rent before you can do anything else with it. Trust me on this. If you put it in your savings you can too easily transfer it to checking when you see Wizz-Bang4000 on pricewatch for only $499! I do this every chance I get and it really helps out a lot.
Now if I could only figure out what to do with the SO.
If Microsoft cares so much about security now, then why don't they include free virus scanning software with Windows?
At least MS will be adding better Anti-Virus integration support for 3rd party anti-virus developers in Windows XP SP2. Article
I too used to like those amuzing proggies, but now I'm near afraid to download a NO-CD crack for a game I purchased, or a serial generator for an old game I lost the cover for. Spy/Ad/Mal/ware is filthing up the net way too much. My evidence follows:
Exibit A:
A friend of mine and I decided to play with PhotoShop and 3D Studio one night and come up with wallpapers. We've all done it hu? After completing our masterpieces we decided to give something back to the community so we uploaded our works to ThemeXP.org. This at the time new website was gaining popularity and looked innocent enough to give our art away to. It wasnt until almost one year later that I checked on my friends wallpaper on ThemeXP.org at this location and found that not only was the wallpaper doing alright having been downloaded 758 times, but the wallpaper had been encapsulated in spyware! A WALLPAPER, WITH SPYWARE! WTF have we come to. The site had a note at the bottom which said:
* This author has generously allowed us to wrap this file to help keep our costs down.
My friend does not remember clicking any checkbox saying it was ok to shit on his wallpaper with crapware, but then again nor does he remember not checking a box. At this point it doesnt really matter, it wasnt that good of a wallpaper. I dont feel sorry for my buddy, I feel bad for the 758 people who downloaded the crap-ridden wallpaper.
Firefox and Konqueror should have a button for "Open the clipboard in a new tab".
If you paste your URL into the address bar and hit ALT+Enter the URL will open in a new tab.
This is only a partial solution.
Sometimes I will highlight the URL and right click selecting "Web Search For ''" which will open a new tab with a google search on the URL. This is a partial solution also.
What I would love in addition to the "Web Search For..." context menu would be a "Wikipedia Search for...", and "Google Define: for..." but maybe I'm just too picky.
My bank, chesbank.com, has a nice interface and is very useful however the security has a few flaws in my opinion. They do clain that you need a browser supporting 128bit SSL and even though they say you need internet explorer it works just fine in Mozilla. I like the fact that I get to choose my logon name, and can change it whenever I want. The password must be changed every 3 months which is a good policy but I think it should be shorter. I do not like the fact that the password *MUST* be 6 characters long. I have a good secure password which is easy to remember, including 2 numbers, 2 lower, and 2 capital letters, but I cannot use it on this system. Why in the world they decided all passwords must be 6 characters is beyond me. If I ever forget my password I need to send email to their support address and within a few hours it is reset to the last 4 digits of my social security number. No doubt there are better ways to do this.
Has anyone else had experiences like this?