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  1. Re:They're annoying on Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org · · Score: 1

    And why should the ISP waste precious CPU cycles in dealing with *tagging* your mail? The ISP can either reject the mail before the data stage, or they can deliver the mail to you as is and you deal with it after downloading it.
    I see no reason for an ISP to waste its resources in dealing with tagging mail. They can definitely spend those resources on buying better disks.

  2. Re:Reject before accept (was Re:They're annoying) on Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org · · Score: 3, Informative

    You either interrupt transmission before the data phase, or after the data phase has been terminated by . (RFC 2821 mandates that data cannot be interrupted).
    Interruption during the data phase will be considered as a network problem and the mail will be resent, for upto five days. Lots of bandwidth wasted.
    Stopping before the data implies that only the helo/ehlo, mail from: and rcpt to: have been sent. Stopping after data but before the quit just implies that your server will not deal with the bounce. It does nothing to save your inbound bandwidth.

  3. Re:Solar Activity and Humans on The 'Perfect Space Storm' Of 1859 · · Score: 1

    11 years.
    And the first study on sunspots and economics was on cotton prices, which varied in some regular pattern (I can't remember what right now).

  4. Re:Whatever on The Art of Unix Programming · · Score: 1

    The Zen that cannot fit on the back of a postage stamp is not the true Zen. :)

  5. Re:Before everyone gets on their high horse on User Interface Design for Programmers · · Score: 1

    Whose desktop? Mine? Yours? Someone elses?
    Mine is customized to the way *I* work. Linux/BSD do that for me. What I want is that level of customizability. The computer is there to let me do my work. No, I don't have time to move to the mouse very often, the keyboard is much faster.

    The best thing about my desktop is that even though its looks ugly to everyone else, it has no distractions for me when I am working.

    PS: Desktop doesn't imply a GUI only (I spend most of my time at a console/xterm).

  6. Re:Let's countersue... on W3C Objects To Royalties On ISO Country Codes · · Score: 1

    Arabic numerals and zero originated in India. They were introduced to Europe by Arabian traders, and hence are termed "Arabic" numerals.

  7. Re:Nothing confirmed so far... on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    I'll confirm the exploit part of it at least.

  8. AutoLART ( was Re:Thank you, Mail.app!) on Mac's Immunity To Recent Virus Attacks · · Score: 1

    man procmail
    man maildrop

  9. Re:Hmmm, is it that complicated on Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    YoU MeAN THaT CASE SensistVITY is NOt IMPOrtANT WIth Ran Do M CapItals And WhiteSpace Appearing AlL OVerThE PlaCE Making It eAsiEr TO read?

    I started with DOS 6.22 and then moved to Linux. I found Linux to be far more intutive than DOS. (Thats was RedHat 5.2, and I had no internet connection. The first command I learnt from a book was man, the rest was RTFM). Case sensitivity is important for context.
    When the GUI gets the equivalent of Perl (remember the case sensitivity?), it might be usable, but until then, GUIs are severly restricted in functionality for what I do, even on my desktop.
    OTOH, I have no experience with Macs, and given my budget, I wont have any for quite some time more (given that the cheapest Mac I could find would be more than six times the cost of my PC, which will last me for at least five years, I don't need wireless or gigebit ethernet, the best benefit I will find from hardware is SCSI drives and a lot more RAM).

    Notice that the case preserving part is a lot easier to read that the first sentence?
    When I am developing, I often find that I end up with two copies of running code outside the CVS sandbox. file.pl is a known working copy at a given state, File.pl is the same file being modified and updated. When File.pl is stable, I move it to file.pl, and then test it. When that works correctly, it gets added to CVS.

    Perl and perl are different things, and the filesystem had better understand what I mean.

  10. Re:Swiss Cheese on State Of The Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm :)

  11. Re:International Computing Organization on EU Rolls out Anti Spam Strategy · · Score: 1

    The children of 2103 would learn about the great GNU/BSD license war, which finally ended with the creation of the GNB (GNB's not BSD) license. A license which lead to the creation of the GNU/BSD network OS, a system that so enamoured its creators that they uploaded themselves into it, making it self aware, and in control of the worlds deadliest weapons. With the amount of intelligence in the system, it would not be long before they created a world which resembled the heyday of the tech, dating from the late 20th century. Those who did not like this, were put into pods and made into a Beowulf cluster..........

  12. Re:Still looking for decent charting app on Gnumeric Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    If you can script something out, Perl has this excellent module GD::Graph which will let you do that.

  13. I am sorry Dave, on Two Views On a China-US Space Race · · Score: 1

    but I cannot do that

  14. Full-Disclosure on Creating an Open Alternative to Bugtraq? · · Score: 1

    http://lists.netsys.com/mailman/listinfo/full-disc losure

    Already does what you want it to do.

  15. Re:maybe I'm just a half-full kinda guy... on Microsoft Acquires RAV Antivirus · · Score: 1

    You could try Clamav from http://clamav.elektrapro.com/
    Lightwieght, GPLed, has current signatures, doesn't have a lot of older stuff, so the number of signatures is a lot smaller. It has so far caught everything Sophos and Trend have, and then more.

  16. Virus checker for AIX on IBM Launches Linux Desktop in India · · Score: 1

    http://clamav.elektrapro.com/
    Defend your AIX system from Windows viruses! :P

  17. Re:IBM and Debian GNU/Linux? on IBM Launches Linux Desktop in India · · Score: 1

    ilug-bom and IIT Chennai both have mirrors.
    ftp://ilug-bom.org.in/
    ftp://iitm.ac.in / (IIRC)

  18. Re:mailing lists prior art? Patents = good this ti on MailBlocks sues Earthlink over Anti-Spam Tech · · Score: 1

    The reply comes as a new mail, necessitating another challenge.
    On the other hand, maybe this will finally get Microsoft and IBM to fix their crappy clients.

  19. Re:Stranger Than (Orwellian) Fiction on The Searchable Life · · Score: 1

    Thought Police.

  20. Re:mailing lists prior art? Patents = good this ti on MailBlocks sues Earthlink over Anti-Spam Tech · · Score: 1

    vacation(1), Lotus Notes, Exchange, autoresponders, new mail sent to C/R system from someone that goes on vacation and the challenge gets delayed.
    I leave you to figure out the implications of infinite loops.

  21. Re:Wil's on fark too on Dancing Barefoot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    /me looks at framed cheque for USD 2.56, signed by Donald E. Knuth.
    And the email responses to the correction I sent him :).

  22. Re:Open port... what now? on Ask Fyodor Your Network Security Questions · · Score: 1

    lsof and netstat/portstat will tell you what you need.
    lsof -i is your friend

  23. Re:Time-Delayed Dupe on Internet Based Attacks in a Physical World · · Score: 1

    No, the dupe was delayed due to being DOSsed by slashdot readers annoyed with dupes.

  24. Re:Finally... on RIAA, MPAA Lose Suit Against Streamcast and Grokster · · Score: 1

    Aaah, sorry.
    The disclaimer was wrt my comment on US supplied arms and ammunition.
    As for popular, that often depends on the nationality of the reporter. Pubjab and Kashmir were reported as "popular" uprisings, well supported by the local populace. The terrorists had support in some places as well, but that simply doesn't stand up against the force deployable by an army.
    Oddly enough, non cooperation works better when done in large numbers. Simple refusal to work at any price is easier when everyone does that and smashes the governments systems without actual damage to goods.

  25. Re:Finally... on RIAA, MPAA Lose Suit Against Streamcast and Grokster · · Score: 1

    Bah, batter down *one* city. Cut off their food, and medical supplies. then toss in dead rats. Just lock them in, and starve them to death.
    Make one example, and the rest will back down.
    Its hard if you try to avoid casulties, but if you want to stop that, the easiest way is to kill ten for every one they kill (FWIW, this works. It worked in Punjab, where terrorism is next to non existent today. The same tactics were not allowed in Kashmir and we still have terrorist troubles there. Not to mention that US supplied arms and ammunition are still being supplied to the terrorists).

    Disclaimer: I'm not anti US. I am just against stupid fools who think terrorism works.