I doubt. Printed newspapers are on the decline almost everywhere, except for tabloids, because people lack the will to read a real newspaper with content, not just infotainment.To me, it almost seems as fewer and fewer people are willing or even able to read anything above the level an instruction leaflet for semi-disposable furniture.
Also, newspapers cost money and these days, people are not willing to pay the 300 Swiss Francs or something like that for a real newspaper, and invest some time every day. One tabloid in the French-speaking part has as slogan "Vite lu, bien vu" (quickly read, "seen" well (it's awfully difficult to correctly translate ads)), and that newspaper sells rather well.
It's depressing that people believe that a small snippet can inform them as well as a full-blown newspaper article.
Different devices for different needs.
I still have an old (or better: now antique) Palm IIIc for my PDA needs. It does everything perfectly. I can download mail, I can even browse the web in a limited way, I have my phone numbers and even a game or two, and some ebooks to read. I want that device to be usable when I'm away from the grid. For a whole day.
To effectively work with a keyboard, type this article, do some scripting and java programming, I have a notebook with all possible gadgets and softwares that will fit on a 40 GB disk (with Linux, as we know, an "awful lot" (c) by mousse-man 2003). I can watch multimedia stuff on it, can use Mozilla and other memory hogs, and I have a second battery in the DVD-ROM bay when I'm away from the grid, giving me approx 4.5 hours of work time.
That's why I keep my old Palm and haven't bought a Sharp Zaurus - it won't work more than 3 or four hours at a time without recharging. Just one advantage the Zaurus has is all that fancy free software. If somebody makes a Zaurus that lives on little power, a smaller footprint than the current model, I might be tempted to test it since I'm a bit of a Linux zealot...:)
Getting a Palm to have more than 8 MB of RAM won't have any benefit for me as I don't even use 6 MB. And I use my palm as calendar, address book, and a for a few other applications and references.
That's what those Compaq Remote Insight Boards are for - you can mount the old cards into a PCI slot, and at the same you have a graphics board, can hookup the local keyboard/mouse, have a virtual floppy (you need images to feed it), virtual console (you need a Java-enabled browser for this), and ontop if it cold-reboot your server, and shut it off and turn it on again remotely.
Which will also cause the downfall of the banana plantations unless somebody comes up with solution against the Black Sigatoka fungus, whish spread just about everywhere.
And all this just because we can't grow more than one sort of banana.
Mar 1 13:04:22 snoop sendmail[19970]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
Mar 1 13:05:30 snoop sendmail[19977]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
Mar 1 13:14:38 snoop sendmail[20000]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
Mar 1 13:17:06 snoop sendmail[20011]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
Mar 1 13:17:17 snoop sendmail[20012]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
Mar 1 13:17:51 snoop sendmail[20013]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
Mar 1 13:20:26 snoop sendmail[20024]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
Mar 1 13:20:37 snoop sendmail[20025]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htm l)
This is just a small snippets of over 700 attempts caught by DNS blackholing today. The script kiddies are a problem too, but spam is more of a problem. And surely a few schmucks sending stuff from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and some other hellholes I should probably blackhole right away.
SnagIt.
As long as you can view it on a screen, I can imagine at least one work-around - use SnagIt. If you can use Word 11 through Citrix, this is a mundane operation. Possibly, you can even do a direct cut&paste from the Citrix window to a window on your desktop.
And OCR software has been pretty powerful these last years so basically, after doing some SnagIt snapping, you could send it through Omnipage.
What happens if we decrypt unencrypted people, or use the wrong decryption key?
And if we use some modern algorithm to encrypt people, wouldn't they be compressed to death?
This would be cool if every spam received by a person on this list would lead to the destruction of the spammer and his property by the USAF. It would be more useful to have the USAF bomb spammers into oblivion, or use them as training targets with live ammo.
Without the risk that a guy spamming someone on this list gets killed, the list is more a "do-spam-me" list.
When they did this at my former employer, my response was pretty swift - I sent them a bill and a form to ask if they approved the hours I spend to catalog all the machines (about 1600).
I sincerely believe that SQL slammer worm was just the beginning.
Guys, I work in a big corp supporting Windows. A small evil one-liner fired three sysadmins inside ten days.
Empty MS SQL sa passwords, and empty local admin passwords are bad practice.
Which would break the MS monopoly on the desktop market.
Unfortunately, I have to use Outlook at work. And I always rejoice when I come back home.Even if KMail isn't the latest piece of sophisticated software, it gets the job done.
Lots of my spam is some Asian character set, in Portugese and German.
Usually, these using German and living in my country of origin will have a small surprise since I call them.
And lots of spam get nuked off by DNS blackholing, of course.
I haven't seen spammers from Singapore yet - looks like they seem to enforce their laws in really interesting ways. Just why can't the Chinese do that neither?
Hmmm...one GB ethernet port would be way enough...if we just had Citrix for Linux, or could make Solaris run on that - it would be my dream....get rid of Windoze Citrix boxen.
Hacking and slashdotting is not bad, but the last line of security is a good, 7.62mm semi-automatic rifle.
The website http://www.a-human-right.com - I saw that website a year ago and I didn't think too much about the issue even despite living in a country where gun ownership is common - is an eye-opener. Even if it doesn't coincide with your political views.
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Better give them the bayonet. We have to dispose these slimes in an enviromentally safe way. We need a SpammerAssassin.
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Actually, I run Linux......
You can deploy Win2k server via RIS with a few hacks. The Minasi book about Win2k describes how.
I doubt. Printed newspapers are on the decline almost everywhere, except for tabloids, because people lack the will to read a real newspaper with content, not just infotainment.To me, it almost seems as fewer and fewer people are willing or even able to read anything above the level an instruction leaflet for semi-disposable furniture. Also, newspapers cost money and these days, people are not willing to pay the 300 Swiss Francs or something like that for a real newspaper, and invest some time every day. One tabloid in the French-speaking part has as slogan "Vite lu, bien vu" (quickly read, "seen" well (it's awfully difficult to correctly translate ads)), and that newspaper sells rather well. It's depressing that people believe that a small snippet can inform them as well as a full-blown newspaper article.
In Switzerland, we still vote with paper ballots, at least for the moment.
Different devices for different needs. I still have an old (or better: now antique) Palm IIIc for my PDA needs. It does everything perfectly. I can download mail, I can even browse the web in a limited way, I have my phone numbers and even a game or two, and some ebooks to read. I want that device to be usable when I'm away from the grid. For a whole day. To effectively work with a keyboard, type this article, do some scripting and java programming, I have a notebook with all possible gadgets and softwares that will fit on a 40 GB disk (with Linux, as we know, an "awful lot" (c) by mousse-man 2003). I can watch multimedia stuff on it, can use Mozilla and other memory hogs, and I have a second battery in the DVD-ROM bay when I'm away from the grid, giving me approx 4.5 hours of work time. That's why I keep my old Palm and haven't bought a Sharp Zaurus - it won't work more than 3 or four hours at a time without recharging. Just one advantage the Zaurus has is all that fancy free software. If somebody makes a Zaurus that lives on little power, a smaller footprint than the current model, I might be tempted to test it since I'm a bit of a Linux zealot... :)
Getting a Palm to have more than 8 MB of RAM won't have any benefit for me as I don't even use 6 MB. And I use my palm as calendar, address book, and a for a few other applications and references.
And we can send 419er spams to Europeans!
I did put a "Designed for Windows XP" sticker onto my throne so everytime I take a dump I can flush it.
To be honest though, I reboot the Windows 2000 servers at work less than I flush my toilet...
That's what those Compaq Remote Insight Boards are for - you can mount the old cards into a PCI slot, and at the same you have a graphics board, can hookup the local keyboard/mouse, have a virtual floppy (you need images to feed it), virtual console (you need a Java-enabled browser for this), and ontop if it cold-reboot your server, and shut it off and turn it on again remotely.
Which will also cause the downfall of the banana plantations unless somebody comes up with solution against the Black Sigatoka fungus, whish spread just about everywhere. And all this just because we can't grow more than one sort of banana.
And spamming....
see things like
Mar 1 13:04:22 snoop sendmail[19970]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=[211.50.107.30], arg2=211.50.107.30, relay=[211.50.107.30], reject=550 5.7.1 ACCESS DENIED to [211.50.107.30] by Alphanet NF Korea & China Netblock (http://snoop.alphanet.ch/antispam/korea-china.htThis is just a small snippets of over 700 attempts caught by DNS blackholing today. The script kiddies are a problem too, but spam is more of a problem. And surely a few schmucks sending stuff from Nigeria, Sierra Leone and some other hellholes I should probably blackhole right away.
I'd prefer to have the The Lumber Cartel rule the world again.
SnagIt. As long as you can view it on a screen, I can imagine at least one work-around - use SnagIt. If you can use Word 11 through Citrix, this is a mundane operation. Possibly, you can even do a direct cut&paste from the Citrix window to a window on your desktop. And OCR software has been pretty powerful these last years so basically, after doing some SnagIt snapping, you could send it through Omnipage.
At least in Switzerland, when I refuel, I have to type in a PIN now with my VISA card.
What happens if we decrypt unencrypted people, or use the wrong decryption key? And if we use some modern algorithm to encrypt people, wouldn't they be compressed to death?
Actually, I rather think that MS invented Beowulf clusters long ago - namely with IIS 4.
I didn't know above website existed, but after this story....
This would be cool if every spam received by a person on this list would lead to the destruction of the spammer and his property by the USAF. It would be more useful to have the USAF bomb spammers into oblivion, or use them as training targets with live ammo. Without the risk that a guy spamming someone on this list gets killed, the list is more a "do-spam-me" list.
When they did this at my former employer, my response was pretty swift - I sent them a bill and a form to ask if they approved the hours I spend to catalog all the machines (about 1600).
I never got a response back so far.
I sincerely believe that SQL slammer worm was just the beginning. Guys, I work in a big corp supporting Windows. A small evil one-liner fired three sysadmins inside ten days. Empty MS SQL sa passwords, and empty local admin passwords are bad practice.
Which would break the MS monopoly on the desktop market. Unfortunately, I have to use Outlook at work. And I always rejoice when I come back home.Even if KMail isn't the latest piece of sophisticated software, it gets the job done.
Lots of my spam is some Asian character set, in Portugese and German. Usually, these using German and living in my country of origin will have a small surprise since I call them. And lots of spam get nuked off by DNS blackholing, of course. I haven't seen spammers from Singapore yet - looks like they seem to enforce their laws in really interesting ways. Just why can't the Chinese do that neither?
And that senior developer didn't have a backup of his machine?
Look at http://www.flashbunny.org/content/outdated.html Also the other Flash movies are pretty instructive.
Hmmm...one GB ethernet port would be way enough...if we just had Citrix for Linux, or could make Solaris run on that - it would be my dream....get rid of Windoze Citrix boxen.
Read the my sig.
These gun onwers might be our last help.
Hacking and slashdotting is not bad, but the last line of security is a good, 7.62mm semi-automatic rifle.
The website http://www.a-human-right.com - I saw that website a year ago and I didn't think too much about the issue even despite living in a country where gun ownership is common - is an eye-opener. Even if it doesn't coincide with your political views.