Some recipients are extremely picky as part of their spam filtering routine. Craigslist.org is one example. Make sure you cross your T's and dot your I's when it comes to forward and reverse DNS. If you can get craigslist to accept email from your server then you're good to go.
...or try to edit AVCHD Video on WIndows 7 PC. Really, I am not an Apple fan-boy. I am just really busy and need my technology to work NOW!
I don't have any trouble editing AVCHD/MPEG4/AVC on WinXP/Vista/Win7. Just buy a cheap copy of Nero Vision or TMPGEnc Xpress and you're all set. With all the money you save by not buying Apple surely you can spare a few bucks. Wait, you're a "techie" but can't be bothered to install a simple piece of software? I think you're placing your credentials at serious risk by saying things like that.
I came from a part of the world where kids willingly walk miles to school everyday and parents bankrupt themselves to pay the tuition. And I can tell you the curriculum is based almost entirely on rote memorization and constant testing. Why? So they can do well on entrance exams to elite high schools and colleges and then perhaps become part of the elite. While in school they had to put up with authoritarian discipline. If they don't like it well they're welcome to drop out and make way for others. Kids in America have it so good they don't care if they're pissing it all away.
The stock market is a casino. The banks and hedge funds is "House". As far as the government is concerned it's OK for banks and hedge funds to manipulate, but not for the little guys. If you screw with the house they wipe the floor with you.
"Second, there remains a significant wage gap between women and men doing the same job"
In the company where I work, our job posting lists out the requirements and salary range. Whoever qualifies for X job will get Y salary. There's no gender gap.
"I for one think employers should suck it up and take the long-term view"
You should try being a boss of a small company with a January 10th deadline with a very important client, only to find out your key female employee decides to take maternity leave for the whole month. Lets see you "suck it up and take the long-term view", as espoused by some snot-nosed kid. See how that works out for you and come back to tell us about it, if you manage to stay in business.
Hear hear. Running your own mail server on your own domain means 100% freedom to do whatever YOU want to do with YOUR email. So whatever Google comes up with on GMail has no meaning to me, because I can do everything already.
With consumer DSL or cable, you get bitched at if you go over some arbitrary usage limit each month. The ISP depends on massive oversubscription to give you that low-low price. If you take up all the bandwidth with your bittorrent how're they going to sell the same pipe to other customers? With T1 or business SDSL, they pretty much have to guarantee you get all the bandwidth all the time. Therefore, no bitching even if you flat-out saturate the pipe 24/7.
I wish I had taken shop back in High School. But I turned my nose up at "blue collar" stuff. I went on to get my EE/CS degree. But the shop class would be a great help to my current hobbies, carpentry and woodworking. Yes you can pick up a book and learn it on your own, but it's quicker to have someone sit you down and tell you how it's done.
SE not capping bandwidth is a myth. They now cap you at 100GB/month. I say now because the usage cap changed over time (gets lower). Here's last email I got from them before I had enough. I think we all pay an extra "SE tax" to avoid being hassled, so this just boils my blood. I switched to a sonic.net business-T line last month, and couldn't be happier. I pay 2x what I pay SE (ADSL + phone), and get 5x the guaranteed bandwidth, plus a T1 SLA.
----email----
We spoke in December regarding utilization patterns and p2p usage on your DSL circuit...
Your usage patterns for the last few months.
9/1-9/15 45.5 Gigs
9/16-9/30 98.5 Gigs
10/1-10/15 104 Gigs
10/16-10/31 107.7 Gigs
11/1-11/15 80 Gigs ß this month, and the months before are not a problem
11/1-11/30 79 Gigs - this month had a massive spike, in a short period, which triggered our investigation
12/1-12/31 214 Gigs ßthis happened *after* we spoke
1/1-1/26 103 Gigs
Please refer to our Terms of Service with regard to utilization patterns www.speakeasy.net/tos/#moderation
"... Speakeasy can normally balance that cost and utilization while continuing to provide great service to all customers. Customers will not be charged for the bandwidth consumed, nor do we have specific limits or caps on that bandwidth. If you utilize any of your Speakeasy services in a manner which consumes excessive bandwidth or affects Speakeasy's core equipment, overall network performance, or other users' services, Speakeasy may require that you cease or alter these activities."
I must ask you to keep the use of p2p at a level substantially LESS THAN what your routine use.
Services will be interrupted, and possibly terminated should a lasting change of this pattern not be seen. If you need a number to work with, consider the rate of no more than 25 gigs per week, or about 100 gigs per month downloaded. It is not a hard rule, as I mentioned when we spoke.... You may have days of more activity, but also days of less activity... this is to be expected. But chronically high p2p downloading patterns averaging great then 25 gigs per week will not be permitted.
If you have an SDSL line, you're usually covered by a SLA, and open-ports is a given. And on ADSL lines with static IPs, open-ports are the standard. Why else would people have static IPs if they don't run servers? Speakeasy is nothing special, and had been going downhill for about 2 years now, ever since they start calling users on the phone to cap their download usage. SE's vaunted service is nothing special. If you pay other ISPs what SE charges you for service, they'll treat you even better than SE.
If you're on a SDSL line, I think you'll have no problem finding an alternative that's just as good. Most DSL companies devote bandwidth and service to SDSL lines over ADSL lines. SDSL lines are by default considered business lines, and already have a higher service level than ADSL, with open port policies and whatnot.
The Chinese people have a different standard on what it means to be free. As far as most them are concerned, they already have enough freedom.
The Taiwanese on the hand, could never seem to get enough freedom. They're quite opposite. Their press is very partisan, but also quite free. My only gripe is they could use some lessons in journalistic integrity.
Before we Americans criticize the Chinese people for willingly accepting oppression, we should look at how we sheeple willingly submit to cavity checks at airports. You can find the same set of rationalizations: safety, security, & stability.
Well, don't whine later when Google won't hire you. They only want graduates from top engineering schools (think MIT, Stanford, Berkeley). Sit anybody with a desire to program in front of a PC and they can become a code monkey. However, you cannot learn theory just by hacking around your PC. The way Google and other companies see it, if they hire people who already know the theory, they can become productive programmers in time. But the opposite does not happen.
By that logic, Truman has killed 520,000 North Korean, 415,000 South Korean, 132,000 Chinese and 33,600 U.S. soldiers by intervening in the Korean Civil War. But wait, that does not count civilian casualties which number in the millions. Truman wins. Oh, we're talking about post-WW2 right? Because I can go way back...
I think anything that PC manufacturers offer will pale in comparison to what geeks with money can build. I built a file server 2 years ago with RAID5 array using a 12-channel 3ware and 12x 400GB seagates in a Lian-Li case. There's a secondary 750GB S/W RAID5 and an additional H/W RAID0 for OS. That server required a PC Power & Cooling 510W supply because none of the other so-called "true power" supplies could handle the spin-up load. This summer I plan to upgrade to a 16-channel 3ware with 16x 1-TB drives. PC manufacturers are overwhelmingly focused on price and will not come even close to matching something like this in the same time frame.
Which is why I listed statistics as the other reason. Those are quite easy to find, right? I believe this is all related to people not living within their means. Now if everyone cannot pay their bills, then perhaps they could buy less. Stay with me here. If supply-and-demand theory is correct, then less demand SHOULD lower the prices of good and services to where people can afford them again. The fact that it doesn't points to two possibilities: 1) Everybody willingly spend more than they make 2) Price fixing.
While standing in line for the PS3, I overheard a discussion from a couple in front of, which was not really about the PS3, but more about some possibilities how they could tell their landlord that they couldn't afford their next rent payment because of the purchase of the PS3. I don't have to be Suze Orman to tell you that its plain stupid to buy a PS3 if that means you can't buy food or rent anymore.
About a year ago I watched a documentary about some welfare mother who wanted her kids to have a real Christmas. She also has a minimum-wage job at the local big-box store. I think many single mothers have this guilt-trip about not having a father around. So she went out to buy a big-screen TV to go with their xbox, which I think they have already. My question is of course, if she has the money to buy a big-screen TV, which is arguably a luxury, then perhaps she shouldn't be on the taxpayer's dough. Now on the other hand she could really be poor and must receive government assistance, in which case one wonders why she's blowing a wad of cash on the TV instead of socking it away for a rainy day.
I'm pretty sure these are NOT rare occurances. Many people are not responsible with their money. They stay poor. There's an old saying: "A fool and his money are soon parted." It remains true today as it always has been.
Anecdotally, we have the PS3 shopper who fretted about missing their rent payment to get a PS3. Statistically, we have the national negative savings rate. That's enough to convince me.
Your parents' friends who lost their savings in the tech crash exhibited a get-rich-quick, can't-lose, money for nothing mentality common during bubble manias. There's no reason to feel sorry for them, because I think they've learned their lesson. Five years later, we have the housing bubble with a new set of fools waiting to lose their shirts. This is really a different topic (bubbles), but there exists a link between rising stock & housing (asset) prices and negative saving. It makes it possible. There are anecdotal evidence of that (in the papers) during the stock bubble. And there are more anecdotal evidence of that during this housing bubble that are only beginning to show up on the news. I think there a quote attributed to Warren Buffet: "You don't know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out".
And if you haven't noticed, another reason American's can't keep up is because CPI inflation figure released by the government doesn't tell the whole story. Creative accounting notwithstanding, the past 5 years CPI ran at around 3% annually, while many worker had their income frozen. Inflation-adjusted, we actually make less money now. Also, although prices for manufactured goods held steady, cost of services (read: healthcare) shot way up. It's another example of CPI being useless. There are some speculation on where the excess liquidity from the stock & housing bubble are going next. If it gets absorbed into the monetary base, look for price of everything to shoot up.
Americans todays are not like their depression-era great-grandparents who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved. The sheer number of non-savers or homeowners who HELOC their houses to finance spending speaks volumes about the type of people we have become. You can't blame W for that.
Slashdot Mirror
Some recipients are extremely picky as part of their spam filtering routine. Craigslist.org is one example. Make sure you cross your T's and dot your I's when it comes to forward and reverse DNS. If you can get craigslist to accept email from your server then you're good to go.
baidu is not a US company...
...or try to edit AVCHD Video on WIndows 7 PC. Really, I am not an Apple fan-boy. I am just really busy and need my technology to work NOW!
I don't have any trouble editing AVCHD/MPEG4/AVC on WinXP/Vista/Win7. Just buy a cheap copy of Nero Vision or TMPGEnc Xpress and you're all set. With all the money you save by not buying Apple surely you can spare a few bucks. Wait, you're a "techie" but can't be bothered to install a simple piece of software? I think you're placing your credentials at serious risk by saying things like that.
It's been at least 10 yrs since any consumer audio output processing has taxed any contemporary CPUs.
The pols know which side of their bread is buttered.
I came from a part of the world where kids willingly walk miles to school everyday and parents bankrupt themselves to pay the tuition. And I can tell you the curriculum is based almost entirely on rote memorization and constant testing. Why? So they can do well on entrance exams to elite high schools and colleges and then perhaps become part of the elite. While in school they had to put up with authoritarian discipline. If they don't like it well they're welcome to drop out and make way for others. Kids in America have it so good they don't care if they're pissing it all away.
The stock market is a casino. The banks and hedge funds is "House". As far as the government is concerned it's OK for banks and hedge funds to manipulate, but not for the little guys. If you screw with the house they wipe the floor with you.
I hook all my networking equipment up to a UPS. Blackout problem solved.
In the company where I work, our job posting lists out the requirements and salary range. Whoever qualifies for X job will get Y salary. There's no gender gap.
"I for one think employers should suck it up and take the long-term view" You should try being a boss of a small company with a January 10th deadline with a very important client, only to find out your key female employee decides to take maternity leave for the whole month. Lets see you "suck it up and take the long-term view", as espoused by some snot-nosed kid. See how that works out for you and come back to tell us about it, if you manage to stay in business.
Funny. I've always though of this is MY slashdot. Yes, lots of geeks are conservative too.
Hear hear. Running your own mail server on your own domain means 100% freedom to do whatever YOU want to do with YOUR email. So whatever Google comes up with on GMail has no meaning to me, because I can do everything already.
If by new business model you mean massive oversubscription, then bitching at you for going over the "cap", then yeah they have trouble adjusting.
With consumer DSL or cable, you get bitched at if you go over some arbitrary usage limit each month. The ISP depends on massive oversubscription to give you that low-low price. If you take up all the bandwidth with your bittorrent how're they going to sell the same pipe to other customers? With T1 or business SDSL, they pretty much have to guarantee you get all the bandwidth all the time. Therefore, no bitching even if you flat-out saturate the pipe 24/7.
I wish I had taken shop back in High School. But I turned my nose up at "blue collar" stuff. I went on to get my EE/CS degree. But the shop class would be a great help to my current hobbies, carpentry and woodworking. Yes you can pick up a book and learn it on your own, but it's quicker to have someone sit you down and tell you how it's done.
----email----
We spoke in December regarding utilization patterns and p2p usage on your DSL circuit...
Your usage patterns for the last few months.
9/1-9/15 45.5 Gigs
9/16-9/30 98.5 Gigs
10/1-10/15 104 Gigs
10/16-10/31 107.7 Gigs
11/1-11/15 80 Gigs ß this month, and the months before are not a problem
11/1-11/30 79 Gigs - this month had a massive spike, in a short period, which triggered our investigation
12/1-12/31 214 Gigs ßthis happened *after* we spoke
1/1-1/26 103 Gigs
Please refer to our Terms of Service with regard to utilization patterns www.speakeasy.net/tos/#moderation
"... Speakeasy can normally balance that cost and utilization while continuing to provide great service to all customers. Customers will not be charged for the bandwidth consumed, nor do we have specific limits or caps on that bandwidth. If you utilize any of your Speakeasy services in a manner which consumes excessive bandwidth or affects Speakeasy's core equipment, overall network performance, or other users' services, Speakeasy may require that you cease or alter these activities."
I must ask you to keep the use of p2p at a level substantially LESS THAN what your routine use.
Services will be interrupted, and possibly terminated should a lasting change of this pattern not be seen. If you need a number to work with, consider the rate of no more than 25 gigs per week, or about 100 gigs per month downloaded. It is not a hard rule, as I mentioned when we spoke.... You may have days of more activity, but also days of less activity... this is to be expected. But chronically high p2p downloading patterns averaging great then 25 gigs per week will not be permitted.
You may call to discuss, if you wish.
Best regards,
Lawrence McBride
Executive Escalation Manager
If you have an SDSL line, you're usually covered by a SLA, and open-ports is a given. And on ADSL lines with static IPs, open-ports are the standard. Why else would people have static IPs if they don't run servers? Speakeasy is nothing special, and had been going downhill for about 2 years now, ever since they start calling users on the phone to cap their download usage. SE's vaunted service is nothing special. If you pay other ISPs what SE charges you for service, they'll treat you even better than SE.
If you're on a SDSL line, I think you'll have no problem finding an alternative that's just as good. Most DSL companies devote bandwidth and service to SDSL lines over ADSL lines. SDSL lines are by default considered business lines, and already have a higher service level than ADSL, with open port policies and whatnot.
The Taiwanese on the hand, could never seem to get enough freedom. They're quite opposite. Their press is very partisan, but also quite free. My only gripe is they could use some lessons in journalistic integrity.
Before we Americans criticize the Chinese people for willingly accepting oppression, we should look at how we sheeple willingly submit to cavity checks at airports. You can find the same set of rationalizations: safety, security, & stability.
Well, don't whine later when Google won't hire you. They only want graduates from top engineering schools (think MIT, Stanford, Berkeley). Sit anybody with a desire to program in front of a PC and they can become a code monkey. However, you cannot learn theory just by hacking around your PC. The way Google and other companies see it, if they hire people who already know the theory, they can become productive programmers in time. But the opposite does not happen.
By that logic, Truman has killed 520,000 North Korean, 415,000 South Korean, 132,000 Chinese and 33,600 U.S. soldiers by intervening in the Korean Civil War. But wait, that does not count civilian casualties which number in the millions. Truman wins. Oh, we're talking about post-WW2 right? Because I can go way back...
A year from now we'll all be downloading video from YouPP onto our iPP.
I think anything that PC manufacturers offer will pale in comparison to what geeks with money can build. I built a file server 2 years ago with RAID5 array using a 12-channel 3ware and 12x 400GB seagates in a Lian-Li case. There's a secondary 750GB S/W RAID5 and an additional H/W RAID0 for OS. That server required a PC Power & Cooling 510W supply because none of the other so-called "true power" supplies could handle the spin-up load. This summer I plan to upgrade to a 16-channel 3ware with 16x 1-TB drives. PC manufacturers are overwhelmingly focused on price and will not come even close to matching something like this in the same time frame.
Which is why I listed statistics as the other reason. Those are quite easy to find, right? I believe this is all related to people not living within their means. Now if everyone cannot pay their bills, then perhaps they could buy less. Stay with me here. If supply-and-demand theory is correct, then less demand SHOULD lower the prices of good and services to where people can afford them again. The fact that it doesn't points to two possibilities: 1) Everybody willingly spend more than they make 2) Price fixing.
I don't know if this is true, but here is a quote from http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/22/opinion_buying_a _ps3/
While standing in line for the PS3, I overheard a discussion from a couple in front of, which was not really about the PS3, but more about some possibilities how they could tell their landlord that they couldn't afford their next rent payment because of the purchase of the PS3. I don't have to be Suze Orman to tell you that its plain stupid to buy a PS3 if that means you can't buy food or rent anymore.
About a year ago I watched a documentary about some welfare mother who wanted her kids to have a real Christmas. She also has a minimum-wage job at the local big-box store. I think many single mothers have this guilt-trip about not having a father around. So she went out to buy a big-screen TV to go with their xbox, which I think they have already. My question is of course, if she has the money to buy a big-screen TV, which is arguably a luxury, then perhaps she shouldn't be on the taxpayer's dough. Now on the other hand she could really be poor and must receive government assistance, in which case one wonders why she's blowing a wad of cash on the TV instead of socking it away for a rainy day.
I'm pretty sure these are NOT rare occurances. Many people are not responsible with their money. They stay poor. There's an old saying: "A fool and his money are soon parted." It remains true today as it always has been.
Your parents' friends who lost their savings in the tech crash exhibited a get-rich-quick, can't-lose, money for nothing mentality common during bubble manias. There's no reason to feel sorry for them, because I think they've learned their lesson. Five years later, we have the housing bubble with a new set of fools waiting to lose their shirts. This is really a different topic (bubbles), but there exists a link between rising stock & housing (asset) prices and negative saving. It makes it possible. There are anecdotal evidence of that (in the papers) during the stock bubble. And there are more anecdotal evidence of that during this housing bubble that are only beginning to show up on the news. I think there a quote attributed to Warren Buffet: "You don't know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out".
And if you haven't noticed, another reason American's can't keep up is because CPI inflation figure released by the government doesn't tell the whole story. Creative accounting notwithstanding, the past 5 years CPI ran at around 3% annually, while many worker had their income frozen. Inflation-adjusted, we actually make less money now. Also, although prices for manufactured goods held steady, cost of services (read: healthcare) shot way up. It's another example of CPI being useless. There are some speculation on where the excess liquidity from the stock & housing bubble are going next. If it gets absorbed into the monetary base, look for price of everything to shoot up.
Americans todays are not like their depression-era great-grandparents who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved. The sheer number of non-savers or homeowners who HELOC their houses to finance spending speaks volumes about the type of people we have become. You can't blame W for that.