Nursing's not a bad choice - there's always gonna be a shortage of people willing to wipe paraplegics' arses. Also consider becoming an electrician & remember you never see a plumber on a bicycle - those guys can easily earn £45 an hour & people still complain they have to wait 3 weeks for an appointment.
Is there ANY available? What do people use, for heavens' sake?
What I mean by this is that I need:
small, fairly cute case
silent, no fan. This has to sit at a parents' house & act just like a consumer device.
2 PCI slots. Yes, TWO, damnit! I want one for Hauppage TV-out and another for a Hauppage digital-TV tuner.
I can't find anything that actually meets these requirements.
My mother has a Mini-ITX machine in her study at present, something like this, but the fan noise is too much for the living room.
Mini-ITX.com sell Epia fanless motherboards with processor already mounted, and I gather that 600mhz or so is fine for a MythTV box, if one is using Hauppage cards' onboard MPEG hardware, but they all have only one PCI slot.
I can find riser cards to convert these motherboards to accept a second PCI, card, but the only case I can find that accept this hardware is pretty uninspiring.
So it seems to me that in order to build a decent MythTV box I have to do some modding of some sort, which I'd really rather not do. Has anyone solved this problem with an off-the shelf solution.
So, does anyone know of a nice little app that will read in the ULRs from a text file or summat and just send request after request? Or do I need to try and knock it up myself?
You could arrange something yourself involving grepping the junk mail for "http" and piping the results to curl. You'd have to use extended regex as part of the grep &/or sed or awk the results to get clean URLs, but it wouldn't be hard to run a bash script to do this.
What I am seeing as I play with this myself is that I'm pulling up URLs for legitimate sites - I dumped all those "Hi, this is Microsoft support - please run this.exe to patch your computer" emails into my junk folder so that now Bogofilter catches them. Consequently grepping for "http" brings up many instances of http://support.microsoft.com/ Who knows what else might be in there..? This makes the task annoyingly more complex than I originally thought.
Personally, I'm not sure I'd want to run this on a business computer - there's plenty of potential for annoying your boss & ISP with this.
Write something that grabs URLs from the email and attacks that? Won't work either.. well, it will work, it just means that now all a spammer has to do is bung the URL of a competitor or someone they don't like in there and now you're doing a DDoS for them.
Might I refer you to Paul Graham's essay, A Plan For Spam: "The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have to deliver their message, whatever it is."
So, yes, sending out spam with an enemie's URL in it might increase bandwidth costs to that person, but it doesn't benefit the spammer. In order to make sales - the only reason the he spams in the first place - the spammer has to give out his own contact details - usually in the form of a URL.
I'd thought about something like this myself - it doesn't even have to be part of the email client.
Just write a screensaver to grep every file in a folder for URLs & download the images. Thus one points this screensaver at the maildir of "exciting commercial opportunities" which you've automatically filtered using bogfilter.
Personally, I'd get it display the images on the screen, but that's because I like filth, and I particularly enjoy the viagra advert which shows a photo of a pharmacist subtitled "My wife likes the perks of my job!"
"I doubt this tool will make it's way to OSX anytime soon, but OSX(and OS9) has EtherPEG [etherpeg.org]. When I run it in my dorm I get a nice porn collage."
Erm... at the bottom of the page you link to it says:
News Update: Saturday 9th March 2002 EtherPEG for OS X is now available.
I rather fancy the idea of adapting Etherpeg to update the desktop wallpaper, so as to get a collage of sniffed images. I figured I'd need to find an API call to the Finder or window manager to make it update the wallpaper, but couldn't seem to locate anything relevant in the developer's documentation. Any suggestions, anyone..?
I believe that the Apple recommended restore procedure for an XServe involves booking from a copy of the OS installed on your iPod (which connects via FireWire).
Is that what you told your boss on the requisition form..?
> Leicester Square (London's movie-going heartland)cinema : £10.50 per person.
> Local (London suburb) cinema : £6.50 per person.
Erm... but also:
Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Place: £2.50 per person.
UCI Milton Keynes ("The Point", before it was EasyCinema): about £4
Ok, this is rip-off Britain, but it doesn't cost EVERYONE more than a fiver a ticket. Besides which, cinema chains make almost no money on ticket sales. Ok, that might be Hollywood's fault, but to most cinemas the purpose of the films is just to get bums on seats: they make their profit selling buckets of popcorn & flavored carbonated water to idiots at massive mark-up.
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Nursing's not a bad choice - there's always gonna be a shortage of people willing to wipe paraplegics' arses. Also consider becoming an electrician & remember you never see a plumber on a bicycle - those guys can easily earn £45 an hour & people still complain they have to wait 3 weeks for an appointment.
Is there ANY available? What do people use, for heavens' sake?
What I mean by this is that I need:
I can't find anything that actually meets these requirements. My mother has a Mini-ITX machine in her study at present, something like this, but the fan noise is too much for the living room.
Mini-ITX.com sell Epia fanless motherboards with processor already mounted, and I gather that 600mhz or so is fine for a MythTV box, if one is using Hauppage cards' onboard MPEG hardware, but they all have only one PCI slot.
I can find riser cards to convert these motherboards to accept a second PCI, card, but the only case I can find that accept this hardware is pretty uninspiring.
So it seems to me that in order to build a decent MythTV box I have to do some modding of some sort, which I'd really rather not do. Has anyone solved this problem with an off-the shelf solution.
You could arrange something yourself involving grepping the junk mail for "http" and piping the results to curl. You'd have to use extended regex as part of the grep &/or sed or awk the results to get clean URLs, but it wouldn't be hard to run a bash script to do this.
What I am seeing as I play with this myself is that I'm pulling up URLs for legitimate sites - I dumped all those "Hi, this is Microsoft support - please run this .exe to patch your computer" emails into my junk folder so that now Bogofilter catches them. Consequently grepping for "http" brings up many instances of http://support.microsoft.com/
Who knows what else might be in there..? This makes the task annoyingly more complex than I originally thought.
Personally, I'm not sure I'd want to run this on a business computer - there's plenty of potential for annoying your boss & ISP with this.
Might I refer you to Paul Graham's essay, A Plan For Spam:
"The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have to deliver their message, whatever it is."
So, yes, sending out spam with an enemie's URL in it might increase bandwidth costs to that person, but it doesn't benefit the spammer. In order to make sales - the only reason the he spams in the first place - the spammer has to give out his own contact details - usually in the form of a URL.
Just write a screensaver to grep every file in a folder for URLs & download the images. Thus one points this screensaver at the maildir of "exciting commercial opportunities" which you've automatically filtered using bogfilter.
Personally, I'd get it display the images on the screen, but that's because I like filth, and I particularly enjoy the viagra advert which shows a photo of a pharmacist subtitled "My wife likes the perks of my job!"
BBC says Bhopal interview "elaborate deception"
Erm... at the bottom of the page you link to it says:
I rather fancy the idea of adapting Etherpeg to update the desktop wallpaper, so as to get a collage of sniffed images. I figured I'd need to find an API call to the Finder or window manager to make it update the wallpaper, but couldn't seem to locate anything relevant in the developer's documentation. Any suggestions, anyone..?
Is that what you told your boss on the requisition form..?
> Local (London suburb) cinema : £6.50 per person.
Erm... but also:
Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Place: £2.50 per person.
UCI Milton Keynes ("The Point", before it was EasyCinema): about £4
Ok, this is rip-off Britain, but it doesn't cost EVERYONE more than a fiver a ticket. Besides which, cinema chains make almost no money on ticket sales. Ok, that might be Hollywood's fault, but to most cinemas the purpose of the films is just to get bums on seats: they make their profit selling buckets of popcorn & flavored carbonated water to idiots at massive mark-up.
Stroller.