I've become a bit more modern than this, but it's just because I needed tri-band because of the US.
The 6310i fits the bill perfectly and does not have fancy features.
There are ways to get spammers:
a) make it a felony. One spam, one month in the pen, with Bubba. With the amount sent in one spam run, we can be pretty sure the person will never spam again.
b) make sure that any country harboring spammers gets cut off the internet if they do not deliver the spammers to the country of the first person charging them with spamming.
c) do the same with people that buy from spammers.
1. ISP has spammers. They spam. They annoy people and start costing people and companies money (yes, it costs money to filter that junk and to install the filters). ISP doesn't do squat about solving the problem, and when finally, the spammer just moves on. The ISP has no incentive to clean up the mess.
2. Users get annoyed. Badly annoyed. They want to stop spammers right now.
3. Users create a blacklist of IP spaces that should be avoided like hell.
4. Users start using blacklists. Amongst these users, there are a few providers. The providers chose to use the blacklist, not the user, and not the person who provides the blacklist. In effect, the blacklist is a free expressions of sections of the internet that degenerated into into the digital equivalent of sewers.
5. Providers get complains of people like you since lots of mail get bounced. Providers finds out that he harbors at least one spammer. Provider gets onto his feet, boots spammers from his IP space, blacklists go away after a few days/weeks.Else, provider loses customers to other providers which did something about spam and all who remain are even more comitted to spamming. There's an option now that the provider might survive on pink contracts alone, but that's not very probable.
Actually, I have an idea: Anybody who wants everybody else to stop using blacklists should be member of a special club that immediately pays every expense incurred by providers and companies to fight spam, without any legal recourse if you get a 1 Million US-$ bill for this fund.
Until then, stop whining and look for providers that aren't featured on blacklists.
The problem is that the whole SMTP conversation still takes place and eats up valuable bandwidth. Better kill the spammer's connection before it even comes to spewing.
I suspect the only way to nab US spammers is to use foreign laws against them and have them walk into the trap when they go on holiday somewhere. I'd personally hate to be charged with theft in Saudi Arabia...
The problem is that a lot of otherweise nice stuff (like this) or this makes use of MySQL and nothing else. No Postgres, no Oracle.
Is there a way around this type of mess? A good CMS that will work with Postgres?
The Targus backpack is indeed tres cool, and since I have the bad habit to ride a motorbike when going to work, it's my only option. So far, the only thing I have to do is to apply spray to make it impregnable when it's raining cats and dogs.
Usually, besides my laptop, I have a truckload of cables for most serial stuff (routers, modems, network and SAN equipment as well as the occasional Unix machine that is so badly b0rken that I need to go serial on it), my cell phone, a Sharp Zaurus and other assorted stuff making it weight at least 12 pounds.
So far, it held up. And it looks so lovely black, not some fag color like pink or yellow.
Anybody who's got a real clue about guerilla tactics will never have a central leadership. Far too easy to follow the trace to the command. If I was tasked to fight a guerilla war, I'd split my unit into cells and only stage hit&run raids. Kill off easy targets, and if possible, hit the enemys civilian populace. And send home as many coffins as possible. In a democracy, the outcome of a war is not decided by military accomplishments, but by the number of coffins sent back and political correctness (that's why Vietnam, while militarly perfectly winnable, was still a loss for the US).
No, that resistance in Iraq has multiple reasons, amongst them:
- political - religious - nationalistic
What the Americans should fear most is a conglomerate of these three above-mentioned forces. That conglomerate would make sure that ten Americans die in Iraq every single day.
The Americans wisely didn't invite the Turkish Army into northern Iraq. Not yet. They might get that idea. When they do that, the Peshmerga will regard any allied force as legitimate target.
In short, nabbing Saddam might have gotten one villain, but they didn't get the freedom fighters^W^Wterrorists. And Osama is still at large, maybe until early November 2004?
This is actually the far more important point. Sometimes, you just cannot patch every conceivable machine. But at least the high-profile boxes should be. God admin'ing means you discover when crapola hits the ventilation device and try to fix it.
OTOH, that they discovered that they got hacked is good enough. Sometimes, I just wish it was the case elsewhere....
You can teach the users a few tricks with Citrix Metaframe as well, and that's way more flexible than Remote Destkop. They have all their cutsie icons, and when they click them, the app comes up and voila, they can work, and that usually quite a tad faster than using the app natively as they only have to transmit graphics updates, not the whole crap of files that goes through the pipe when you click "Save".
Although, even Citrix has some limits, like Photoshop or CAD applications, but it's still a very nifty thing to have for apps that are only available on Windows (but the ICA client is available for more platforms than most people think).
For example, I'm administering a crapload of Exchange boxen right now from my Linux desktop while typing this and waiting for some 500+ mailboxes to travel from one server to the next.
Using the DMCA to block competitors off selling products you're not even the sole distributor seems be a braindead concept. But then, there are lawyers as well....wasn't there an important sentence in King Lear about that profession?
At least the Germans have some laws governing sales, so they have some logic in there.
So far, instead of using SPEWS, one can also use DBSBLs that block dynamic IP addresses, which works very well. This at least forces spammers to use SMTP relays, and together with ORBS, you can significantly reduce the amount of spam getting to your MTA.
However, using SPEWS usually sets a signal for some providers as well to clean up their shop.
To me, it seems as AOL lusers are subhuman genetic garbage waiting to be picked up and removed from the gene pool. What worries me, though, is that so many people are AOL lusers.
On the other hand, being AOL luser and falling for a phishing scam is extraordinarly dumb. Maybe these people should land in concentration camps.
The phone runs on Linux, but did Motorola release SDKs as well, so we can add some software like on the Zaurus? Have a real Linux underneath that will allow me to be somewhat productive with it?
So far, it looks to me like some other lock-in scheme akin to WinCE or Windows for (Dumb) phones.
And more to notice - all the interesting Linux toys like the new Zaurus, this Motorola phone - are only delivered in Asia. Why this?
Psion made very nice machines for their day, they were very usable and I could transfer files even with my old Amiga. I liked the little machine. It had a great battery life and other awfully useful features. Even some quite usable software for it's day (compared to today). I vividly remember it to use to take notes during my high school and then embellish them on my Amiga so they could be made readable. The Calendar grew to something like 400 KB in the end (don't laugh, this was huge back then), but it helped me to get along.
Later on came the PalmIII (a true organizer), a PalmIIIc (I needed a color gadget), and now a Sharp Zaurus 5500 (runs Linux, runs some nice software, has Wlan and and and). The Palm had the best text input using Graffiti, the Zaurus version of Graffiti isn't as good (but actually, I'm redoing it since I positively think we need a full set of Graffiti characters since this makes jotting down notes much easier). The apps on a Zaurus are usually quite much what I need, except maybe in the games area, but then I'm not too much of a gamer.
Now comes the C-760. A small keyboard (I'll have to testdrive one to see how usable it really is), very nice screen, you can use it as a tablet PC and ontop of it, most Zaurus apps that run with Opie should be a compile away, if they don't run straight away. Life might become interesting in the PDA sector again, with some really usable PDA that doesn't run on WinCE. I think XEmacs will still be a bit much for this thing, but it might turn out to run after all.
Right so. I happen to be MCDBA and MCSE, but I also happen to be a RHCE and I am very skilled in quite a few other fields (perl, AIX, SAN stuff and backup software).
Actually, after having seen too much M$, I decided there was more possible that just reboot a machine. And no, I don't have a CS degree, my background is precision machining.
There's a fairly recent version of SAPGUI for Mac, and it supposedly works well enough for our accounting goons that are using ITS as well if they want to do it from the lounge.
For this, WORM's have been invented. Currently at 9.2 GB per media, put larger versions are in the pipeline. They are still readable 10 years after, and have been guaranteed to be readable for 100 years, given the software exists.
Just you can't burn them with your run-of-the-mill software, you need some professional software for the whole document and jukebox managment as well, else you'll have some problems to find you archived data in a decade or so when the audit comes.
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I've become a bit more modern than this, but it's just because I needed tri-band because of the US. The 6310i fits the bill perfectly and does not have fancy features.
The new CAN-SPAM approved label for permitted commercial email?
There are ways to get spammers: a) make it a felony. One spam, one month in the pen, with Bubba. With the amount sent in one spam run, we can be pretty sure the person will never spam again. b) make sure that any country harboring spammers gets cut off the internet if they do not deliver the spammers to the country of the first person charging them with spamming. c) do the same with people that buy from spammers.
The problem is plain simple.
1. ISP has spammers. They spam. They annoy people and start costing people and companies money (yes, it costs money to filter that junk and to install the filters). ISP doesn't do squat about solving the problem, and when finally, the spammer just moves on. The ISP has no incentive to clean up the mess.
2. Users get annoyed. Badly annoyed. They want to stop spammers right now.
3. Users create a blacklist of IP spaces that should be avoided like hell.
4. Users start using blacklists. Amongst these users, there are a few providers. The providers chose to use the blacklist, not the user, and not the person who provides the blacklist. In effect, the blacklist is a free expressions of sections of the internet that degenerated into into the digital equivalent of sewers.
5. Providers get complains of people like you since lots of mail get bounced. Providers finds out that he harbors at least one spammer. Provider gets onto his feet, boots spammers from his IP space, blacklists go away after a few days/weeks.Else, provider loses customers to other providers which did something about spam and all who remain are even more comitted to spamming. There's an option now that the provider might survive on pink contracts alone, but that's not very probable.
Actually, I have an idea: Anybody who wants everybody else to stop using blacklists should be member of a special club that immediately pays every expense incurred by providers and companies to fight spam, without any legal recourse if you get a 1 Million US-$ bill for this fund.
Until then, stop whining and look for providers that aren't featured on blacklists.
This explicitely includes SpewSpew.net.
The problem is that the whole SMTP conversation still takes place and eats up valuable bandwidth. Better kill the spammer's connection before it even comes to spewing.
I suspect the only way to nab US spammers is to use foreign laws against them and have them walk into the trap when they go on holiday somewhere. I'd personally hate to be charged with theft in Saudi Arabia...
and the locals he's a goddamn thief and infidel. Chances are he'll never spam again.
The problem is that a lot of otherweise nice stuff (like this) or this makes use of MySQL and nothing else. No Postgres, no Oracle.
Is there a way around this type of mess? A good CMS that will work with Postgres?
The Targus backpack is indeed tres cool, and since I have the bad habit to ride a motorbike when going to work, it's my only option. So far, the only thing I have to do is to apply spray to make it impregnable when it's raining cats and dogs.
Usually, besides my laptop, I have a truckload of cables for most serial stuff (routers, modems, network and SAN equipment as well as the occasional Unix machine that is so badly b0rken that I need to go serial on it), my cell phone, a Sharp Zaurus and other assorted stuff making it weight at least 12 pounds.
So far, it held up. And it looks so lovely black, not some fag color like pink or yellow.
Or maybe they'll get a visit by the dreaded black helicopters first? But for this, they need some real carrier, I suppose....
That site is already pushing up daisies....
Anybody who's got a real clue about guerilla tactics will never have a central leadership. Far too easy to follow the trace to the command. If I was tasked to fight a guerilla war, I'd split my unit into cells and only stage hit&run raids. Kill off easy targets, and if possible, hit the enemys civilian populace. And send home as many coffins as possible. In a democracy, the outcome of a war is not decided by military accomplishments, but by the number of coffins sent back and political correctness (that's why Vietnam, while militarly perfectly winnable, was still a loss for the US).
No, that resistance in Iraq has multiple reasons, amongst them:
- political
- religious
- nationalistic
What the Americans should fear most is a conglomerate of these three above-mentioned forces. That conglomerate would make sure that ten Americans die in Iraq every single day.
The Americans wisely didn't invite the Turkish Army into northern Iraq. Not yet. They might get that idea. When they do that, the Peshmerga will regard any allied force as legitimate target.
In short, nabbing Saddam might have gotten one villain, but they didn't get the freedom fighters^W^Wterrorists. And Osama is still at large, maybe until early November 2004?
Spammers could be punished to have to show up at every home and carry away all paper junk mail for the rest of their lifes.
For repeat spammers, chop off their hands.Else lock them in a cubicle and have them write COBOL code for the rest of their life.
This is actually the far more important point. Sometimes, you just cannot patch every conceivable machine. But at least the high-profile boxes should be. God admin'ing means you discover when crapola hits the ventilation device and try to fix it.
OTOH, that they discovered that they got hacked is good enough. Sometimes, I just wish it was the case elsewhere....
You can teach the users a few tricks with Citrix Metaframe as well, and that's way more flexible than Remote Destkop. They have all their cutsie icons, and when they click them, the app comes up and voila, they can work, and that usually quite a tad faster than using the app natively as they only have to transmit graphics updates, not the whole crap of files that goes through the pipe when you click "Save".
Although, even Citrix has some limits, like Photoshop or CAD applications, but it's still a very nifty thing to have for apps that are only available on Windows (but the ICA client is available for more platforms than most people think).
For example, I'm administering a crapload of Exchange boxen right now from my Linux desktop while typing this and waiting for some 500+ mailboxes to travel from one server to the next.
And then these lawyers go a meat processing plant? Or is there a "lawyer processing plant" somewhere around?
Using the DMCA to block competitors off selling products you're not even the sole distributor seems be a braindead concept. But then, there are lawyers as well....wasn't there an important sentence in King Lear about that profession?
At least the Germans have some laws governing sales, so they have some logic in there.
So far, instead of using SPEWS, one can also use DBSBLs that block dynamic IP addresses, which works very well. This at least forces spammers to use SMTP relays, and together with ORBS, you can significantly reduce the amount of spam getting to your MTA.
However, using SPEWS usually sets a signal for some providers as well to clean up their shop.
To me, it seems as AOL lusers are subhuman genetic garbage waiting to be picked up and removed from the gene pool. What worries me, though, is that so many people are AOL lusers.
On the other hand, being AOL luser and falling for a phishing scam is extraordinarly dumb. Maybe these people should land in concentration camps.
The phone runs on Linux, but did Motorola release SDKs as well, so we can add some software like on the Zaurus? Have a real Linux underneath that will allow me to be somewhat productive with it?
So far, it looks to me like some other lock-in scheme akin to WinCE or Windows for (Dumb) phones.
And more to notice - all the interesting Linux toys like the new Zaurus, this Motorola phone - are only delivered in Asia. Why this?
There are larger versions around. The current standard for archival media is 9.1 GB, either in WORM or MO format, and these media can be written by a real MO jukebox. Of course, you can put it 30 GB UDO drives that will give some more space when one multiplies it with the number of available slots....
Ok, little rant.
Psion made very nice machines for their day, they were very usable and I could transfer files even with my old Amiga. I liked the little machine. It had a great battery life and other awfully useful features. Even some quite usable software for it's day (compared to today). I vividly remember it to use to take notes during my high school and then embellish them on my Amiga so they could be made readable. The Calendar grew to something like 400 KB in the end (don't laugh, this was huge back then), but it helped me to get along.
Later on came the PalmIII (a true organizer), a PalmIIIc (I needed a color gadget), and now a Sharp Zaurus 5500 (runs Linux, runs some nice software, has Wlan and and and). The Palm had the best text input using Graffiti, the Zaurus version of Graffiti isn't as good (but actually, I'm redoing it since I positively think we need a full set of Graffiti characters since this makes jotting down notes much easier). The apps on a Zaurus are usually quite much what I need, except maybe in the games area, but then I'm not too much of a gamer.
Now comes the C-760. A small keyboard (I'll have to testdrive one to see how usable it really is), very nice screen, you can use it as a tablet PC and ontop of it, most Zaurus apps that run with Opie should be a compile away, if they don't run straight away. Life might become interesting in the PDA sector again, with some really usable PDA that doesn't run on WinCE. I think XEmacs will still be a bit much for this thing, but it might turn out to run after all.
Right so. I happen to be MCDBA and MCSE, but I also happen to be a RHCE and I am very skilled in quite a few other fields (perl, AIX, SAN stuff and backup software).
Actually, after having seen too much M$, I decided there was more possible that just reboot a machine. And no, I don't have a CS degree, my background is precision machining.
There's a fairly recent version of SAPGUI for Mac, and it supposedly works well enough for our accounting goons that are using ITS as well if they want to do it from the lounge.
For this, WORM's have been invented. Currently at 9.2 GB per media, put larger versions are in the pipeline. They are still readable 10 years after, and have been guaranteed to be readable for 100 years, given the software exists.
Just you can't burn them with your run-of-the-mill software, you need some professional software for the whole document and jukebox managment as well, else you'll have some problems to find you archived data in a decade or so when the audit comes.