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  1. Re:stick with the borg on Anatomy of a Successful Enterprise Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you need isconf? http://www.infrastructures.org

  2. Re:Filesystems on Anatomy of a Successful Enterprise Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    ReiserFS has been known to suck under load, like the mail queue directory, or the mail spool of a busy server. It will be a few years before Reiser can be trusted with critical data.

  3. Re:You're modded as +3 funny but... on Women Leaving I.T. · · Score: 1

    She is a better programmer, he is a better administrator. Put them in those roles, and they will do fine.

  4. Re:Are they trying to reproduce 1993 bomb blasts.. on Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms · · Score: 1

    The 1993 bomb blasts certainly did not trigger communal riots.

    But they did result in an enormous backlash against the local mafia which supported the terrorists. Most of the mafia leaders fled to countries with no extradiction treaties, or died.

  5. Re:What is the world coming to? on Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Support? This is the accounting department, and you are costing us money. By the time we are finished with you, you will owe us money. And don't try to deny it, we have caller id.

  6. Re:Only partially correct on OSS Unix: Dividing & Conquering Itself · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. The CLI *is* easy to use. Doing what I do with a GUI would just take me longer. (Actually, it does take me far longer to work with a GUI).

    So, ease of use for whom?

    As far as I am concerned, so long as the GUI works, it doesn't matter what it looks like.

  7. Re:Clear & Concise Code on Optimizations - Programmer vs. Compiler? · · Score: 1

    But if you can save the computer a few seconds of time, those seconds add up over the lifetime of the program.

    Remember that your program can have many more users than programmers, and their time is worth something too.

  8. Re:A Little Harsh on University Of Calgary To Offer Course On Spam · · Score: 1

    No they don't. Spam is quite well defined. Unsolicited Bulk Email.

    You can whine all you want about content filtering, but spam is only about consent, not about content.

  9. Re:He seems to miss.. on ISP Responsibility in Fight Against Spam · · Score: 1

    587/TCP requires SMTP AUTH, and optionally TLS.
    I doubt that 587/TCP is likely to be blocked at all, since even weak passwords can be protected by SSL.

  10. Re:How the presentation will go on ISP Responsibility in Fight Against Spam · · Score: 1

    You: "I have a scheme to save the company 10% of its bandwidth costs and increase your bonus by 15% for innovative cost cutting measures, but that will cause a slight pressure on the balance sheet for the next quarter."

    Put this in the first quarter of the year, and you should be able squeeze it through

  11. Re:Just a thought on ISP Responsibility in Fight Against Spam · · Score: 1

    Spam is Unsolicited Bulk Email (It has to be both unsolicited and bulk).

    This lands up in the mailbox of someone who did not ask for it.

    For those violating copyright, both the sender and the reciever have agreed to participate.

    The issue is one of consent, not one of content.

  12. Re:He seems to miss.. on ISP Responsibility in Fight Against Spam · · Score: 1

    Just pull down the CBL zonefile and count the number of listed IPs.

  13. Re:Not caring? on ISP Responsibility in Fight Against Spam · · Score: 1

    IIRC, SPEWS does list UUnet in there.

  14. Re:He seems to miss.. on ISP Responsibility in Fight Against Spam · · Score: 1

    The message submissing port to be used by end users is 587/tcp, not port 25/tcp.

    Or just VPN to your office and be done with it.

  15. Re:A legitimate problem! on Spammers Sue Spamee · · Score: 1

    If you want to use email for marketing, use a confirmed opt-in system.

    COI requires the user to ask for the mail, and then actually take action to confirm that (note that merely clicking a link with a HTTP GET is not sufficient for the confirm action, you need to get the user to POST the request).
    The most preferred form is an email response wth a suitably hard to break key in the mail.

    This is the technique used by legitimate mailing list management software (majordomo, mailman, ezmlm, sympa, lyris, ecartis driven lists all support this).

    Note that the typical double opt-in excuse of confirming by not unsubscribing is not a valid form of COI. COI requires active user participation in the second step, inaction is not an excuse.

  16. Re:Apply the same to guns? on Jail Time For P2P Developers? · · Score: 1

    That would depend on whether a record company executive is considered human.

  17. Re:Magical upgrade needed on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Run both postmasters in parallel, and have slony feed from 7.x to 8.0 (you need to upgrade anyway. 7.2.x has data corruption issues).

    Slony is your friend.

  18. Re:Yay on MyDoom Strikes Again · · Score: 1

    That is only for broken operating systems which are vulnerable.

    I recommend Linux/FreeBSD on the desktop for x86, or OS X for those on PPC.

    Take your pick, much safer not to use Windows. And if you really have to use Windows, don't hook those boxen to the publicly connected network. Put them behind application level gateways, with really limited internet access (if any) Having a separate box for surfing and checking email helps.

  19. Re:cracked on Linux Getting Harder To Crack · · Score: 1

    Be a real geek! Duct tape forever!

  20. Re:What problem on LSB Submitted To ISO/IEEE · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, provides is definitely there.

    And please do not compare RPM to apt-get.
    RPM is equivalent to dpkg.
    YUM/URPMI/up2date are equivalent to apt-get.

    Of course, nothing matches portage, or BSD ports.
    cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current && make install replace is hard to beat :)

  21. Re:Finally maybe someone gets it on Point-and-klik Linux Software Installation? · · Score: 1

    For me, definitely. I run a few GTK+ applications, a couple of Xlib apps so I definitely see large savings in memory use.

    Note that I don't use GNOME or KDE, so the actual savings are quite high. The top two memory hogs are Mozilla and X at the moment. My GTK+ apps are using about 4 Mb of RAM each, but 3 MB of that is shared memory, so the effective use is about 8 MB or so.

  22. Re:UTF-8 email headers on Worst Bug or Shortcomings in a Standard? · · Score: 1

    Email headers are required to be 7 bit ASCII. See RFC 2821.

  23. Re:bad idea on Open Source Alternatives to Dreamweaver Templating · · Score: 1

    In which case you generate the entire site with a script once :).
    CVS + make and your favorite template engine of choice.

    perl file1.pl > index.html
    perl file2.pl > this-is-my-second-page.html

    Generating a static page with everything consistent is then trivial (if something breaks, it breaks everywhere simultaneously).

  24. Re:A better question... on U.S. World's Foremost Spam Nation In 2004 · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they use ISP relays?

  25. Re:RBLs rule on Reviewing Anti-Spam Offerings · · Score: 1

    Hell, clickable link:
    http://nixcartel.org/~devdas/minute.png

    And if /. allows an inline img: