Wearing one around your neck identifies you as one of the techno-congniscenti.
Riiight. This fad is for those who think they're 'in the know' because they picked up some skillz by watched their admin right click my computer and click properties. The crowd that is just dangerous enough to delete their registry. And now they're cool because they keep their super leet document around their necks saying "Look at me, I'm important, I've got 'my documents' around my neck!". Nothing annoys me more than these people. Its like that ITT Tech commercial with the 40 year old PT Cruiser driving soccer mom got a degree as an "IT Professional" by "inventing a database" in Access and is expecting to make $80,000 a year!
Someone please meta-moderate the Slashdot RSS feed so I only see intelligent stories.
Yes but theres no incentive to write a really cool virus that actually does damage to the victims machines, today everyone is trying to get into your box to turn it into a zombie.
I cant imagine how the media would spin it if a popular worm were to propogate that actually formats a drive or something similar.
Thats exactly what I'm looking for. The overviews make it look nice, havent plunged into the installation guide yet but I'm happy to hear from another ex03admin that its not too bad.
Any idea what SCL threshold you were using on the gateway? thanks.
(The iRiver, although comes with a -rather bad- databasing application, organises songs internally through the filetree)
This is the one thing I cant stand about the iPod. Who was the smart ass that decided to list songs by artist / album from the ID3 tags! I've got my entire collection in folders just the way I want it. What a shame, none of the ID3 taggers Ive found are any good.
Thats just marketdroid speak. I've got a 4G iPod and under "Normal Real People" conditions it gets maybe 6 - 7 hours, which is still enough for a long car trip. Maybe they got 12 hours by putting a 4 MB 64k AAC in the flash buffer and set the ipod on repeat;)
You didnt get the right plan. I got the Sprint PCS Vision plan back in late 02 and it was $10/mo all you can eat data. Thing is the wont sell you the data cable for your laptop so you have to get it from BB or online. They're like $10-15. I've heard rumors that excessive use of the vision phone as a modem will get your service disconnected but no facts. I think they just want to scare enough people into not hogging the bandwidth with their unlimited accounts and charge the business people an arm and a leg per MB. Funny though, I'm actually looking at getting a Treo 600 or 650 when it comes out, hopefully the browser has improved since when you had it.
PS: There is a WIFI SD card that the treo might be able to accept, not sure, worth checking out.
McAfee SpamKiller based on SpamAssassin no good
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A lot of closed source software has open source counterparts, (i.e. MS and Open Office) but its always interesting to see closed source commercial software based on an open source project.
McAfee has a product for Exchange servers that is based on Spam Assassin called Spam Killer. I found out about it from the Spam Assassin site when I was looking for a windows version. Spam Killer isnt free yet its not as expensive as some of the other solutions out there.
The major problem I've been having with it is it creating zero byte emails which cannot be downloaded via pop3. When a user gets 30 messages, and message 10 is a zero byte email the client will constantly download the first 10 over and over, creating duplicates, until the user logs into outlook web access (webmail) and deletes the zero byte message. This doesnt happen to the MAPI users but we have quite a few POP3 users.
The support people are useless, I'm about to try out Microsoft Intelligent Message Filter for exchange, and hopefully with some good RBLs it should be ok.
Actually no, I almost got sucked into that thing but it only made me realize how much I really wanted one so I just went ahead and purchased one from compusa.
Funny part about it though, if anyone ever bothers to read this, is that I had signed up for AOL only to cancel it durring my dip into the darkside that is freeipods.com, and when the lady at AOL asked me why I wanted to cancel I told her that I finished the Internet, I went to all the sites and there wasnt a pixel that interested me and that I'll be going back to reading books and making maple syrup in my back yard. 5 minutes later after nicely saying no to her and listening to her stories about how it helps her with her homework and having her try to pry into my no to truthful life I had to get ugly. I didnt want to be she was wasting my daytime cell minutes and those dont grow on trees. summary: freeipods.com cost me, and I'm not even in soviet russia.
Last Christmas my G/F got me a Slashdot T-Shirt from Thinkgeek. (Yes I am a/.er with a GF) I wear it proudly (except on dupe days) and often times people ask me what the T-Shirt means and I get to share the wonderfulness that is Slashdot.
Today I donated to FireFox, actually I got one of the new T-Shirts and some stickers to put on my car but that counts right? It felt great. Sure it was a bit much for a T-Shirt, but I know that the profit is going to something I actually care about and I can only imagine how happy I will feel wearing that shirt around town, speaking the word of mozilla to all who ask about my shirt.
Next on my list to donate to is the EFF, and I think I get a nifty bumper sticker for that too.
I really want to donate to wikipedia, I use it all the time. I find myself getting bored, then researching something random on wikipedia, and an hour later I've got 50 tabs open in FireFox and I'm super happy. I just thought I would point out to everyone that Wikipedia has T-Shirts available at cafepress.com/wikipedia.
In 5 years when newbie #917489267 joins I will be. Anyway, all hail he who possesses the 4 digit UID as thou is l33ter and no ammount of code, chix, or beer will make you l33ter.
Scroll Wheel, whatever, everyone knows people get iPods because they help you get mod points on Slashdot. Speaking of which, I got my iPod last month and haven't seen any yet. Maybe it takes a while for the ultra-hip-people-database to update. Anyway, I'm expecting those mod points any day now. Infact now that I've got an iPod, a copy of FireFox, AND a gmail account I'm almost too hip for slashdot. Yeah!
Happened with me and Cox. I was paying something like this:
$10 basic cable
$30 "standard" cable - 19-90 (MTV, Spike, FX)
$15 digital cable - TechTv, nothing else good.
$05 digital cable box rental - What BS
$40 high speed Internet - ~500K down / 48K up
$100 TOTAL! - WTF
Once I took a good look at my bill and realized that I never watch TV and TechTV merged with G4 and the Screen Savers sucks now I decided to cancel basic, standard, and digital, hoping my bill would reduce to $40. Thing is, Internet without basic cable is $50. Internet with basic cable is $50. So I keep basic but they never disconnect standard, and I'm getting HBO which I never signed up for. My bill looks great now. Still havent canceled the digital yet, thought I might hang on to it and see if TechTV gets any better but it doesnt look like it.
I remember doing the same thing a while back. I was at an amusment park and I decided to ride the battering ram or whatever that thing is call. Basically a big boat they strat you in and swint you from side to side. Anyway, the people on the left when they went up would scream "tastes great!" and the right would scream "less filling!"...
What amusment park was this?... Busch Gardens Williamsburg of course! Small world hu?
PS: Hop skip and a jump from boston is your ever in for a good tourist outing, the wife will love colonial williamsburg too.
Maybe you didnt read it right, thats exactly what I was saying. I'm not cult-like loyal to anything. I mentioned 3 different media players, all with pros and cons. I'm not cult-like loyal to google either, theres tons of great stuff between all the portals its just a matter of finding what you like and keeping tidy bookmarks.
Anyway, like I said, I'm wearing my slashdot green today, take what I said with a grain of salt. Consider it an over generalization. The feel around slashdot seems to be about choice, not conformity or loyalty, though there are strong feelings of loyalty among operating systems and search engines, the underlying message is choice and without slashdot I would probably not ever known that so many alternatives to so many things were out there.
Nod your head, smile, drink the kool-aid, and be merry, its only a matter of time before the original post gets modded -1 funny or offtopic anyway.
Sure, I could do tons of stuff on Yahoo. Get driving directions, play games online, read news, check stocks, do email, auctions, personals, movie trailers, but then my bookmarks would all have little yellow "Y!"'s next to them and that's only one step above butterflies and flags on my web browser, instant messenger, email client, and media player and that wreaks of conformity.
We've got to have tabbed browsing, odd codec playing, grass roots protocol speaking, vi and emacs running, happy little apps with a logo zoo full of loveable creatures. *Imagines tux dancing in a field with the fox, bird, gnu, and squirrel in slow motion*
Nobody doubted that yahoo provides a cool service, what you failed to notice was the little green logo on the top left of this page.
This is not an attack on yahoo or your character, its just a generalization about the demographics of slashdot, so start drinking the kool-aid.
I don't use Yahoo for the search engine. I do use it for the email (occasionally) the mapping & directions (not perfect but usually provides a workable starting point), yellow pages, the occasional news story linked from a forum thread and other things.
This means little to most slashdotters. We dont use Yahoo, we all switched to google ages ago. We dont use Musicmatch Jukebox, thats what cdex, winamp, xmms, mplayer, etc is for. Didnt we just go through this a few hours ago with Real's player. We bitch, moan, but we dont even use the services / software anyway. This headline is just about exciting as popular desktop wallpaper site merges with popular desktop icon site.
After looking at that site, all I can say is WOW. I've been playing F-Zero in SNES9X with Open GL for so long but after seeing that I will be switching to ZSNES. Amazing.
What is it with chess playing computers using security through obscurity? First a high school kid breaks into the chess playing WOPR by guessing the password, Joshua, deceased son of programmer Dr. Falcon, now this? Next thing you know someone is going to post an article about how some kids figured out how to make free phone calls by shorting a payphone handset with a cola can tab, a cptn. crunch wistle, and a 6.5536Mhz crystal.
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I'm in Williamsburg, VA. I *hate* that commercial.
I'm a Washington D.C. resident, you insensitive clod!
Wearing one around your neck identifies you as one of the techno-congniscenti.
Riiight. This fad is for those who think they're 'in the know' because they picked up some skillz by watched their admin right click my computer and click properties. The crowd that is just dangerous enough to delete their registry. And now they're cool because they keep their super leet document around their necks saying "Look at me, I'm important, I've got 'my documents' around my neck!". Nothing annoys me more than these people. Its like that ITT Tech commercial with the 40 year old PT Cruiser driving soccer mom got a degree as an "IT Professional" by "inventing a database" in Access and is expecting to make $80,000 a year!
Someone please meta-moderate the Slashdot RSS feed so I only see intelligent stories.
Yes but theres no incentive to write a really cool virus that actually does damage to the victims machines, today everyone is trying to get into your box to turn it into a zombie.
I cant imagine how the media would spin it if a popular worm were to propogate that actually formats a drive or something similar.
requires little maintenance.
Thats exactly what I'm looking for. The overviews make it look nice, havent plunged into the installation guide yet but I'm happy to hear from another ex03admin that its not too bad.
Any idea what SCL threshold you were using on the gateway? thanks.
(The iRiver, although comes with a -rather bad- databasing application, organises songs internally through the filetree)
This is the one thing I cant stand about the iPod. Who was the smart ass that decided to list songs by artist / album from the ID3 tags! I've got my entire collection in folders just the way I want it. What a shame, none of the ID3 taggers Ive found are any good.
Thats just marketdroid speak. I've got a 4G iPod and under "Normal Real People" conditions it gets maybe 6 - 7 hours, which is still enough for a long car trip. Maybe they got 12 hours by putting a 4 MB 64k AAC in the flash buffer and set the ipod on repeat ;)
You didnt get the right plan. I got the Sprint PCS Vision plan back in late 02 and it was $10/mo all you can eat data. Thing is the wont sell you the data cable for your laptop so you have to get it from BB or online. They're like $10-15. I've heard rumors that excessive use of the vision phone as a modem will get your service disconnected but no facts. I think they just want to scare enough people into not hogging the bandwidth with their unlimited accounts and charge the business people an arm and a leg per MB. Funny though, I'm actually looking at getting a Treo 600 or 650 when it comes out, hopefully the browser has improved since when you had it.
PS: There is a WIFI SD card that the treo might be able to accept, not sure, worth checking out.
A lot of closed source software has open source counterparts, (i.e. MS and Open Office) but its always interesting to see closed source commercial software based on an open source project.
McAfee has a product for Exchange servers that is based on Spam Assassin called Spam Killer. I found out about it from the Spam Assassin site when I was looking for a windows version. Spam Killer isnt free yet its not as expensive as some of the other solutions out there.
The major problem I've been having with it is it creating zero byte emails which cannot be downloaded via pop3. When a user gets 30 messages, and message 10 is a zero byte email the client will constantly download the first 10 over and over, creating duplicates, until the user logs into outlook web access (webmail) and deletes the zero byte message. This doesnt happen to the MAPI users but we have quite a few POP3 users.
The support people are useless, I'm about to try out Microsoft Intelligent Message Filter for exchange, and hopefully with some good RBLs it should be ok.
Actually no, I almost got sucked into that thing but it only made me realize how much I really wanted one so I just went ahead and purchased one from compusa.
Funny part about it though, if anyone ever bothers to read this, is that I had signed up for AOL only to cancel it durring my dip into the darkside that is freeipods.com, and when the lady at AOL asked me why I wanted to cancel I told her that I finished the Internet, I went to all the sites and there wasnt a pixel that interested me and that I'll be going back to reading books and making maple syrup in my back yard. 5 minutes later after nicely saying no to her and listening to her stories about how it helps her with her homework and having her try to pry into my no to truthful life I had to get ugly. I didnt want to be she was wasting my daytime cell minutes and those dont grow on trees. summary: freeipods.com cost me, and I'm not even in soviet russia.
told you it wasnt funny
Real Alternative. Play real without installing the evil real
Last Christmas my G/F got me a Slashdot T-Shirt from Thinkgeek. (Yes I am a /.er with a GF) I wear it proudly (except on dupe days) and often times people ask me what the T-Shirt means and I get to share the wonderfulness that is Slashdot.
Today I donated to FireFox, actually I got one of the new T-Shirts and some stickers to put on my car but that counts right? It felt great. Sure it was a bit much for a T-Shirt, but I know that the profit is going to something I actually care about and I can only imagine how happy I will feel wearing that shirt around town, speaking the word of mozilla to all who ask about my shirt.
Next on my list to donate to is the EFF, and I think I get a nifty bumper sticker for that too.
I really want to donate to wikipedia, I use it all the time. I find myself getting bored, then researching something random on wikipedia, and an hour later I've got 50 tabs open in FireFox and I'm super happy. I just thought I would point out to everyone that Wikipedia has T-Shirts available at cafepress.com/wikipedia.
Ok, enjoy the rest of your day.
In 5 years when newbie #917489267 joins I will be. Anyway, all hail he who possesses the 4 digit UID as thou is l33ter and no ammount of code, chix, or beer will make you l33ter.
Just imagine a beo...
What, theres only one?
Well, Does it run Linux?
Fine, but could it kick the WOPR's ass?
I, for one, welcome our new lip reading red light blinking overlord...
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$10 basic cable
$30 "standard" cable - 19-90 (MTV, Spike, FX)
$15 digital cable - TechTv, nothing else good.
$05 digital cable box rental - What BS
$40 high speed Internet - ~500K down / 48K up
$100 TOTAL! - WTF
Once I took a good look at my bill and realized that I never watch TV and TechTV merged with G4 and the Screen Savers sucks now I decided to cancel basic, standard, and digital, hoping my bill would reduce to $40. Thing is, Internet without basic cable is $50. Internet with basic cable is $50. So I keep basic but they never disconnect standard, and I'm getting HBO which I never signed up for. My bill looks great now. Still havent canceled the digital yet, thought I might hang on to it and see if TechTV gets any better but it doesnt look like it.
I remember doing the same thing a while back. I was at an amusment park and I decided to ride the battering ram or whatever that thing is call. Basically a big boat they strat you in and swint you from side to side. Anyway, the people on the left when they went up would scream "tastes great!" and the right would scream "less filling!"...
What amusment park was this?... Busch Gardens Williamsburg of course! Small world hu?
PS: Hop skip and a jump from boston is your ever in for a good tourist outing, the wife will love colonial williamsburg too.
Maybe you didnt read it right, thats exactly what I was saying. I'm not cult-like loyal to anything. I mentioned 3 different media players, all with pros and cons. I'm not cult-like loyal to google either, theres tons of great stuff between all the portals its just a matter of finding what you like and keeping tidy bookmarks.
Anyway, like I said, I'm wearing my slashdot green today, take what I said with a grain of salt. Consider it an over generalization. The feel around slashdot seems to be about choice, not conformity or loyalty, though there are strong feelings of loyalty among operating systems and search engines, the underlying message is choice and without slashdot I would probably not ever known that so many alternatives to so many things were out there.
Nod your head, smile, drink the kool-aid, and be merry, its only a matter of time before the original post gets modded -1 funny or offtopic anyway.
Sure, I could do tons of stuff on Yahoo. Get driving directions, play games online, read news, check stocks, do email, auctions, personals, movie trailers, but then my bookmarks would all have little yellow "Y!"'s next to them and that's only one step above butterflies and flags on my web browser, instant messenger, email client, and media player and that wreaks of conformity.
We've got to have tabbed browsing, odd codec playing, grass roots protocol speaking, vi and emacs running, happy little apps with a logo zoo full of loveable creatures. *Imagines tux dancing in a field with the fox, bird, gnu, and squirrel in slow motion*
Nobody doubted that yahoo provides a cool service, what you failed to notice was the little green logo on the top left of this page.
This is not an attack on yahoo or your character, its just a generalization about the demographics of slashdot, so start drinking the kool-aid.
www.gmail.com
local.google.com
news.google.com
And labs.google.com if your curious
And always remember to, run linux, switch friends to firefox, read slashdot, hate the DMCA, support the EFF, drink the GNU koolaid, and profit.
Why is this in any way important?
This means little to most slashdotters. We dont use Yahoo, we all switched to google ages ago. We dont use Musicmatch Jukebox, thats what cdex, winamp, xmms, mplayer, etc is for. Didnt we just go through this a few hours ago with Real's player. We bitch, moan, but we dont even use the services / software anyway. This headline is just about exciting as popular desktop wallpaper site merges with popular desktop icon site.
I'm wearing slashdot green today.
And considering that in 10 years the hardware will be free this doesnt look like such a great investment.
Stateless Linux anyone?
After looking at that site, all I can say is WOW. I've been playing F-Zero in SNES9X with Open GL for so long but after seeing that I will be switching to ZSNES. Amazing.
What is it with chess playing computers using security through obscurity? First a high school kid breaks into the chess playing WOPR by guessing the password, Joshua, deceased son of programmer Dr. Falcon, now this? Next thing you know someone is going to post an article about how some kids figured out how to make free phone calls by shorting a payphone handset with a cola can tab, a cptn. crunch wistle, and a 6.5536Mhz crystal.