No, no, no. SMP is not controlled. It is also Caldera that sponsored the development of SMP for Linux, so their complaint to IBM about SMP is pure FUD. There is no substance in the SCO vs IBM suit. The SCO execs made a mistake in picking this fight and are so conceited they'll rather go down in flames than admit it.
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Those things look and sound like a swarm of giant angry helicopters. The people who complain about them really do have a point. Coal fired power stations are better...
Only 81%? You are lucky. Most of the mail servers I admin get about 50 spams for each legit message. It is unbefriggenlievable. Thank goodness for SpamProbe.
As govs store more fingerprints, the odds of making identity mistakes increase enormously. So far, nobody cared about the relibility (or lack thereof) of fingerprint systems, since only criminals are fingerprinted. Once everybody is on file, it is sure to be a whole different story.
If you are living on the west coast and gets picked up for a murder on the east coast, it may be possible to explain it away, but what if you live in the same neighborhood as the victim?
So, eventually, all the information that is stored, will become full of entropy and noise and will be useless as a law enforcement tool.
Uhh, have you ever installed windoze (any version) from a disc? To me, installing Linux from a disc is a lot easier and far less time consuming than installing windoze.
GPS is a transmitter system. To track something, you need to establish a back link. Forcing people to install thousands of dollars worth of tracking devices and radios in the cars will not fly. No need to worry about this idiotic idea.
with RF ID tags on merchandise and a proximity credit card, the stores can just ding a shoplifter when he/she walks out the door - or ding anybody else within range...
Maybe I'll pass on this idea - too much scope for fraud by the shop owners!
Sure the number will be very low when divided per head, but what is it per seat?
Say you have 5000 schools, with 50 PCs per school, what is the cost for 250,000 seats?
Consider that there may be 500 heads per school, your $7.50 or so per head would amount to 19 Million Dollars.
Does that include any support? May the schools call MS unlimited, or do they have to pay extra for support?
'Comfort noise' is usually added to digital systems, else your ear 'hurts' when nobody is talking. All digital cellphones do this for instance. Old hat for those inthe know.
Whitelisting, which is pretty much what you are doing, works fine until you start to get more than about 100 spams a day. By then, you really do need a very good filter, since even 99% efficiency is not quite good enough anymore.
All the spammers need to do to defeat Bayesian filters, is to send 100 times more spams than they currently do, since if you get 10,000 spams, hitting a 99% filter, 100 will get through - sigh.
I've had the same e-mail address for > 8 years and get >150 spams per day and only 1 or 2 legit messages. Spamprobe (Sourceforge) removes about 99% of the spam, which still leaves me with a 50% signal to noise ratio in my inbox...
You could use Popfile (on Sourceforge) for Windoze. It works. AFAIK it counts single words only so it is not the best, but you would get about 97% efficiency. If word pairs are counted, the efficiency can be about 99%.
Another method is to use the Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) mail client. It has single word counting Bayesian filtering built in and there are versions for every immaginable operating system.
You should try various filters, since they are not all made equal. SpamProbe (Sourceforge) is waaaaaay better than any other, since it counts word pairs as well, while other filters only count single words. It is of course more processor hungry, but I don't notice anything. You'll have to have a very busy server before the processing power required, would matter.
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No, no, no. SMP is not controlled. It is also Caldera that sponsored the development of SMP for Linux, so their complaint to IBM about SMP is pure FUD. There is no substance in the SCO vs IBM suit. The SCO execs made a mistake in picking this fight and are so conceited they'll rather go down in flames than admit it.
In many (most?) states, it is a sale, not a license, so the EULA is moot.
'nuff sed...
Those things look and sound like a swarm of giant angry helicopters. The people who complain about them really do have a point. Coal fired power stations are better...
I am a contractor and refuse to be an employee. I have the same job insecurity as everybody else, but for quite a lot more pay...
Laura Dildo?
then talk to the management to set up a support deal. This is an opportunity, not a problem...
Only 81%? You are lucky. Most of the mail servers I admin get about 50 spams for each legit message. It is unbefriggenlievable. Thank goodness for SpamProbe.
Cool, imaqine the instructions: To recharge fuel cell, insert in behind and fart...
is still news on /.???
Man, this must be the noisiest computer ever. What the hell does it have 8 fans for?
As govs store more fingerprints, the odds of making identity mistakes increase enormously. So far, nobody cared about the relibility (or lack thereof) of fingerprint systems, since only criminals are fingerprinted. Once everybody is on file, it is sure to be a whole different story. If you are living on the west coast and gets picked up for a murder on the east coast, it may be possible to explain it away, but what if you live in the same neighborhood as the victim? So, eventually, all the information that is stored, will become full of entropy and noise and will be useless as a law enforcement tool.
Apple is no threat, since they are not growing.
Uhh, have you ever installed windoze (any version) from a disc? To me, installing Linux from a disc is a lot easier and far less time consuming than installing windoze.
GPS is a transmitter system. To track something, you need to establish a back link. Forcing people to install thousands of dollars worth of tracking devices and radios in the cars will not fly. No need to worry about this idiotic idea.
If SCO collects on the IBM suit, then they would probably have to pay over 95% to Novel, leaving them with M$50. Gee, what a business model...
with RF ID tags on merchandise and a proximity credit card, the stores can just ding a shoplifter when he/she walks out the door - or ding anybody else within range...
Maybe I'll pass on this idea - too much scope for fraud by the shop owners!
Sure the number will be very low when divided per head, but what is it per seat? Say you have 5000 schools, with 50 PCs per school, what is the cost for 250,000 seats? Consider that there may be 500 heads per school, your $7.50 or so per head would amount to 19 Million Dollars. Does that include any support? May the schools call MS unlimited, or do they have to pay extra for support?
Does anybody know how much it costs to licence MS Office for a Campus, or for the entire school system of a state with say 5000 schools?
I would like to know how my tax money is spent...
'Comfort noise' is usually added to digital systems, else your ear 'hurts' when nobody is talking. All digital cellphones do this for instance. Old hat for those inthe know.
Whitelisting, which is pretty much what you are doing, works fine until you start to get more than about 100 spams a day. By then, you really do need a very good filter, since even 99% efficiency is not quite good enough anymore.
All the spammers need to do to defeat Bayesian filters, is to send 100 times more spams than they currently do, since if you get 10,000 spams, hitting a 99% filter, 100 will get through - sigh.
Mozilla will do all that and the spam filtering too...
I've had the same e-mail address for > 8 years and get >150 spams per day and only 1 or 2 legit messages. Spamprobe (Sourceforge) removes about 99% of the spam, which still leaves me with a 50% signal to noise ratio in my inbox...
You could use Popfile (on Sourceforge) for Windoze. It works. AFAIK it counts single words only so it is not the best, but you would get about 97% efficiency. If word pairs are counted, the efficiency can be about 99%. Another method is to use the Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) mail client. It has single word counting Bayesian filtering built in and there are versions for every immaginable operating system.
You should try various filters, since they are not all made equal. SpamProbe (Sourceforge) is waaaaaay better than any other, since it counts word pairs as well, while other filters only count single words. It is of course more processor hungry, but I don't notice anything. You'll have to have a very busy server before the processing power required, would matter.