Yeah, thats right. For 3 (three) months, i havn't got a single SPAM that got through to my inbox.
Most of it gets blocked by a combination of Blacklists and firewall-rules, the rest gets flushed down the drain by a combination of Bayes- and other mailfilters.
From my Serverlogs i can see that only 'about 0.5-1% gets through firewall and the HELO-command of my server at all (out of about 200-500 Spams a day, varying with weekday). So i even reduced my mail-traffic quite a bit.
I'd love to, but beeing from europe, it seems rather impossible. I'd be very interested in one or two of the servers (or maybe a server and one data storage solution).
My home directory is where i store all the useless things (the important ones get files to a ZIP drive).
Usually, i use the folloing directories: src... Getting things done and compiling tarballs tmp... vim backup files temp... most useless stuff goes here download... all the downloads that don't fit above x... nameless WORN junk (write once - read never)
All more important files get into the folders they are supposed to be in the first place (like/usr/bin/usr/share/docs).
After years in software development, here's a hint for storing notes, schedules and really important customer details: Get a clipboard and a writing utensil of your choice. You got all the information handy and can take it into every meeting and to the customer (Remember to ALWAYS add a few blank pages, so you never run out - also, you have something to doodle around in the weekly boring-as-hell status meetings).
Personally, i prefer a clipboard with transparent backside where i store the list with internal extension numbers and customer phone numbers. So i only have to flip it to have all that contact info ready. No more messing about with slow and insufficient contact list search algorythms that are never up-to-date anyway...
The above may sound stupid, coming from a software developer, but to me a clipboard is like a towel to a hitchhiker: It's a very versatile tool, including - but not limited to - beeing something that protects your desk when you slam your head against it...
If your people don't live all in the same place (and have high-bandwith connection), you might want to try giving them hardware VOIP phones. Grandstream BT-100's are quite cheap and you can call them any time for free saying you love them.
Or, if you're not having much money, why not build them some Kippenlights. Although the picture is from the beta-test, you should get the idea... All you need are some low power Leds and a blink-circuit of your choice. Mine runs on a 9V block for about 10-12 days apiece.
Well, in my humble personal world, one of the worst jobs in IT is still working with the sales department to turn their "lie-to-the-customer-a-bit" into something approaching reality.
And guess what; it's an uphill battle. The more lies you make into working software, the more undoable things are expected from your department. But fail once and you're out of a job.
More and more companies crave for people that not only have learnt in theory how software development works, but have already some years of experience.
Something a fresh-out-of-school studend normally hasn't...
Well known but untrue. Although it's commonly refered as the "survival of the fittest" - which many people misunderstand as "survival of the strongest" - what modern science means is the "survival of the most adaptive". That is, species that can adapt fastest with the least amount of hazzle to changing environments and new illnesses have the biggest chances of survival.
If that means getting some two-legged ape-decendants - who still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea - to make you a rubber fin thats perfectly fine for us dolphins...
However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited.
The technology i normally use [while|to] skip commercials is the toilet.
What you are saying is, that it will be illegal to listen to the call of nature while the commercials are running, right? Also, won't be allowed to zap to another channel, because that would circumvent the commercials?
Oh man, i really gotta buy some of this book thingys i heard of, so i can pass the time - wait a minute, that would be illegal, too...
..because M$ wasn't even the publishers of most of the protocols.
For example, take the "Character Generator Protocol" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0864.txt, which was posted by Mr. Postel on May 1983 without any restrictions for usage and/or modification.
And AFAIK Postel never did work for Microsoft and never sold his rights to them.
I didn't take a look at the other protocols yet, i i guess it's the same story for most, if not all, of them...
For the last few years, all i've been hearing in europe over here from the U.S. Leaders was following this theme:
GI: "There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
GOE: "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
If you're trying to get people interested in your product, the first rule is don't offend people.
Having read slashdot-articles for the past few years, i'd say that offending people makes them buy your products. Just think of Microsoft, SCO, Nokia, Siemens, Redhat, SuSE and - especially and - IP phone vendors like Grandstream...
Maybe BSD's would do a lot better on market-share if they'd stop beeing polite and start kicking ass...
...do they still stick to the daemon as maskott? Cause i rather like to stick to my 30cm daemon i have on my desk than to an orange/grey flag that looks like the latest advertising campaing for generic viagra...
Depending on the outcome, they will describe it as the moment America joined the ranks of ordinary nations; or they will describe it as the moment the prodigal sons and daughters of the greatest generation accepted their burden as caretakers of the City on the Hill.
Sounds somewhat like the Nazis with their "arien superrace", if you ask me... what happened to "all are equal" as beeing the base of democracy?
"Huygens can float for a few hours while still broadcasting if it lands in a lake of oil."
It may float that long, but the batteries are running out soon after landing.
And because Huygens is scheduled to be dead shortly after landing/crashing, the communication session with Cassini is limited to that time span - Cassini doesn't listen much longer and Huygens has simply no programming for a longer mission time. So, even if Huygens manages to survive longer than expected, it wouldn't provide much more data nor would Cassini pick it up.
It didn't find the link again, but that's what i remembered reading somewhere on www.esa.int...
From my current standpoint of developing a commercial web based logistic system it's nice to have most users use IE. Whenever something goes wrong, blame the bug on Microsoft. Given a creative use of keywords, you can *always* find a M$ knowledgebase article about IE that more or less matches you problem...
..and will stay alive, until there are cheap 32 Bit processors with small pin count and aren't physically THAT small. I mean, yeah, generally small is good. Just not for your average geek (like me) who wants to solder things for himself.
No matter how cheap home appliances become, there are some things just not commercially available. Like the doorbell that is automatically muted on saturday mornings if came home late last night...
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Yeah, thats right. For 3 (three) months, i havn't got a single SPAM that got through to my inbox.
Most of it gets blocked by a combination of Blacklists and firewall-rules, the rest gets flushed down the drain by a combination of Bayes- and other mailfilters.
From my Serverlogs i can see that only 'about 0.5-1% gets through firewall and the HELO-command of my server at all (out of about 200-500 Spams a day, varying with weekday). So i even reduced my mail-traffic quite a bit.
But if it updates every 10 minutes I wonder how useful that is.
As i'm usually 'bout 5 minutes too late at work, a clock that only updates in 10-minute-steps would probably save me quite some trouble...
Come on guys, buy some stuff
I'd love to, but beeing from europe, it seems rather impossible. I'd be very interested in one or two of the servers (or maybe a server and one data storage solution).
My home directory is where i store all the useless things (the important ones get files to a ZIP drive).
... Getting things done and compiling tarballs ... vim backup files ... most useless stuff goes here ... all the downloads that don't fit above ... nameless WORN junk (write once - read never)
/usr/bin /usr/share/docs).
Usually, i use the folloing directories:
src
tmp
temp
download
x
All more important files get into the folders they are supposed to be in the first place (like
After years in software development, here's a hint for storing notes, schedules and really important customer details: Get a clipboard and a writing utensil of your choice. You got all the information handy and can take it into every meeting and to the customer (Remember to ALWAYS add a few blank pages, so you never run out - also, you have something to doodle around in the weekly boring-as-hell status meetings).
Personally, i prefer a clipboard with transparent backside where i store the list with internal extension numbers and customer phone numbers. So i only have to flip it to have all that contact info ready. No more messing about with slow and insufficient contact list search algorythms that are never up-to-date anyway...
The above may sound stupid, coming from a software developer, but to me a clipboard is like a towel to a hitchhiker: It's a very versatile tool, including - but not limited to - beeing something that protects your desk when you slam your head against it...
...on X-Mas, try this:
If your people don't live all in the same place (and have high-bandwith connection), you might want to try giving them hardware VOIP phones. Grandstream BT-100's are quite cheap and you can call them any time for free saying you love them.
Or, if you're not having much money, why not build them some Kippenlights. Although the picture is from the beta-test, you should get the idea... All you need are some low power Leds and a blink-circuit of your choice. Mine runs on a 9V block for about 10-12 days apiece.
Well, in my humble personal world, one of the worst jobs in IT is still working with the sales department to turn their "lie-to-the-customer-a-bit" into something approaching reality.
And guess what; it's an uphill battle. The more lies you make into working software, the more undoable things are expected from your department. But fail once and you're out of a job.
More and more companies crave for people that not only have learnt in theory how software development works, but have already some years of experience.
Something a fresh-out-of-school studend normally hasn't...
Like it or not, the weak are supposed to die out.
Well known but untrue. Although it's commonly refered as the "survival of the fittest" - which many people misunderstand as "survival of the strongest" - what modern science means is the "survival of the most adaptive". That is, species that can adapt fastest with the least amount of hazzle to changing environments and new illnesses have the biggest chances of survival.
If that means getting some two-legged ape-decendants - who still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea - to make you a rubber fin thats perfectly fine for us dolphins...
However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited.
The technology i normally use [while|to] skip commercials is the toilet.
What you are saying is, that it will be illegal to listen to the call of nature while the commercials are running, right? Also, won't be allowed to zap to another channel, because that would circumvent the commercials?
Oh man, i really gotta buy some of this book thingys i heard of, so i can pass the time - wait a minute, that would be illegal, too...
..because M$ wasn't even the publishers of most of the protocols.
For example, take the "Character Generator Protocol" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0864.txt, which was posted by Mr. Postel on May 1983 without any restrictions for usage and/or modification.
And AFAIK Postel never did work for Microsoft and never sold his rights to them.
I didn't take a look at the other protocols yet, i i guess it's the same story for most, if not all, of them...
anyone know any good four letter words to start things off?
"spam"
For the last few years, all i've been hearing in europe over here from the U.S. Leaders was following this theme:
GI: "There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
GOE: "Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
If you want to know who wrote this, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Goering and tell it's not happening again. Please!
LLAP & LG
Rene
so he doesn't write viruses, just unwanted bulk mail. Makes me much more comfortable. not.
Well, i'd say that merely depends on the amount of flag compared to the amount of woman. Let's see, take a 1 square-inch flag and...
If you're trying to get people interested in your product, the first rule is don't offend people.
Having read slashdot-articles for the past few years, i'd say that offending people makes them buy your products. Just think of Microsoft, SCO, Nokia, Siemens, Redhat, SuSE and - especially and - IP phone vendors like Grandstream...
Maybe BSD's would do a lot better on market-share if they'd stop beeing polite and start kicking ass...
I'm sure you'd consider it news if Microsoft changed its corporate logo
Like, for example, a big "M" with Mickey Mouse ears?
...do they still stick to the daemon as maskott? Cause i rather like to stick to my 30cm daemon i have on my desk than to an orange/grey flag that looks like the latest advertising campaing for generic viagra...
The downed server reminds me of the ThinkGeek crash, see http://www.thinkgeek.com/slashdotted/index.shtml
./'ed server looks like ;-)
They even have a nice picture of how a
Depending on the outcome, they will describe it as the moment America joined the ranks of ordinary nations; or they will describe it as the moment the prodigal sons and daughters of the greatest generation accepted their burden as caretakers of the City on the Hill.
Sounds somewhat like the Nazis with their "arien superrace", if you ask me... what happened to "all are equal" as beeing the base of democracy?
That drill sound familiar. Didn't we have something like this in europe a few decades ago...?
Thats the Inquirer as we came to love it. Brief, clear and very wrong.
"Huygens can float for a few hours while still broadcasting if it lands in a lake of oil."
It may float that long, but the batteries are running out soon after landing.
And because Huygens is scheduled to be dead shortly after landing/crashing, the communication session with Cassini is limited to that time span - Cassini doesn't listen much longer and Huygens has simply no programming for a longer mission time. So, even if Huygens manages to survive longer than expected, it wouldn't provide much more data nor would Cassini pick it up.
It didn't find the link again, but that's what i remembered reading somewhere on www.esa.int...
...that the US had i big war with Irak (and another with Afganistan) recently; more or less burning up those countries.
You know, burning oil pipelines and cities *do* produce some CO2.
Wonder if that has something to do with it?
I also like IE:
From my current standpoint of developing a commercial web based logistic system it's nice to have most users use IE. Whenever something goes wrong, blame the bug on Microsoft. Given a creative use of keywords, you can *always* find a M$ knowledgebase article about IE that more or less matches you problem...
..and will stay alive, until there are cheap 32 Bit processors with small pin count and aren't physically THAT small. I mean, yeah, generally small is good. Just not for your average geek (like me) who wants to solder things for himself.
No matter how cheap home appliances become, there are some things just not commercially available. Like the doorbell that is automatically muted on saturday mornings if came home late last night...