Thunderbird's bayesian filter strips out and ignores all html tags in message bodies, and ignores a significant amount of the header. I think it strips out symbols too, but I don't remember for sure. In essence, it ignores the majority of the information that could tell it whether or not a message is spam. A good spam filter would try to use everything. My mail rules catch a lot more spam than Thunderbird's junk filter.
There's also a problem inherent to bayesian filtering where the spammer just needs to add a bunch of positive words/indicators to outweigh the negatives. In the real world, an email that has a number of negative words is very likely to be spam no matter how many positive words there are.
I don't think your problems are DRM related. My first guess would be to turn off Aero and switch to 16 bit color, and see if the problems persist.
"Microsoft Certified" is pretty meaningless. They pay MS to sign their drivers and there's little or no testing involved as far as I can tell. I've seen plenty of certified drivers cause BSOD's, and sometimes upgrading to a newer, uncertified driver fixed the problem.
Reading your post, I realized that SharePoint has been around for almost 6 years and I still don't know exactly what it does or why I should want it. I've just never encountered it in all these years, apart from having several unused copies lying around my desk.
Is being entrenched in one company's technology a good thing?
Can't he trust you to decide what fits your needs? IIS and Apache are _very_ different, for example, and you can't choose between them based on product reviews.
If they'd kill to avoid getting caught, that's all the more reason why they need life in prison.
Someone who puts themselves far above others is pretty much the definition of a sociopath. They have little or no empathy or conscience. Psychotic was probably the wrong word to use though, assuming one doesn't have to be insane to be a homicidal sociopath.
"Up to" 101 years. He hasn't been sentenced yet. He'll probably get much less. I really don't care how many years they sentence him to, so long as it's longer than he'll be around.
Kind of sad that they haven't prosecuted any regular spammers for violating anti-spam laws yet, afaik.
Flash 9 for Linux has been available for at least a month or so, practically forever. Occasionally the sound stops and I have to restart Firefox, but that's the worst of my problems.
you can burn them to a CD (thus creating a physical backup at the same time), rip that CD back to a choice of DRM-free formats Good if you have only a dozen songs in your collection. Wasteful and time consuming if you have thousands. You're not going to burn and rip hundreds of CD's just to transfer your songs to a regular mp3 player.
I wouldn't say "it's not bad". It's bad enough that I won't touch iTunes. Apple's long history of stubbornness and unresponsiveness to consumers is why I've never bought anything from them. Twenty two years have passed, and one button mice and tiny keyboards are still the standard on the Mac, despite that every single person who doesn't like Macs gives that as one of their reasons. It's an old, tired argument, but it only gets stronger as the years pass. Apple is an immovable rock. It's always been their way or the highway, and the highway looks pretty good. I'd never pay full price for lower quality music and the added hassle of wasting CD's just to get it into a usable format. Some people will.
It'll be hard to convince Apple that their DRM was a bad idea after 2 billion songs have been purchased by people who don't give a damn that they paid full price for low bitrate music they might not be able to play in 10 years. I swear, some people think 128k AAC sounds better than the original CD, and anything Apple touches must be the best.
Apple has the right to use DRM. If you don't like their arbitrary restrictions, don't buy from them, and educate others.
I've seen a number of people bitten by this stupid wont-fix bug-by-design. Their motherboard fails, so they move their hard disk to another system, and it won't boot into safe mode, and the official steps for making it boot again demand that they first be able to boot it. I think the logic behind Microsoft's response (or lack thereof) to this bug is that there's a slight chance you'll repurchase Windows if you started with an OEM copy.
Linux systems that fail to boot are much easier to fix. Just pop in a live cd, mount your partitions, and fix it.
To add insult to injury, Windows often fails to mount NTFS formatted hard disks from other systems, attempting unsuccessfully to mount them with the same drive letter as before. C: being taken, it'll quietly fail and you just won't be able to access it, but it'll show up in Disk Management and such, with the "change drive letter" context menu item grayed out (with documentation explanation why it would ever do such a thing). So I end up having to use Linux to recover files from a Windows disk, because Windows itself isn't up to the challenge of reading its own disks. "Just works" my ass.
The longer they can tie up your money, the more interest they'll make. They've locked countless accounts permanently, keeping the money for themselves. Blah blah blah. Rabble rabble rabble. This is nothing new. Hardly newsworthy. Beware the terms of service.
I had very strong doubts, because Outlook+Exchange integration is an overdesigned house of cards with numerous dependencies, a nightmare for IT admins everywhere, but I decided to search on Google anyways: http://toastytech.com/guis/wineo2knotes.html Looks like they got Outlook 2000 working. They had to copy some rpc related dlls from a real Windows system, among other things.
The last place I worked (a manufacturing company) has a 3D printer. I think it cost around $30k, but it can print any arbitrary shape AFAIK. It uses two types of plastic, one for the object itself, and another that's very brittle for building temporary supports to hold the object upright while its printing, if needed. The Fab@Home doesn't look nearly as good, but it still seems very inexpensive IMHO.
Printed parts are no match for the real thing, and printing is expensive and time consuming. You often use it to build a cheap plastic prototype of something that requires custom parts, before you commit yourself to mass producing the real thing out of aluminum or whatever.
Although I don't haven't used it beyond testing, I must say it's the easiest to install and configure email server I've tried. Exchange 2003, for comparison, was and still is a nightmare.
Apple doesn't make cheap Macs. If you want a high end system, the price difference is negligible, and sometimes the Mac costs less. If you just want a really cheap new system with reasonable specs, your getting a PC. The desktop I bought new 3 years ago from Dell is still about $250 cheaper than the closest Mac Mini I could configure. Sure, it's not a fair comparison, but that's because they have no comparable offering.
Apple could just flood the market by supporting OEM hardware and matching Microsoft's OEM pricing, and the expense complaint would disappear, but it'd be a risky move for Apple, costing them dearly if they fail to quickly grab a sufficient market share to offset the lost desktop hardware sales.
I'm a Linux user by the way. I don't like Windows either. But I do have a $200 system (40gb, 512mb, 1.8ghz) running Server 2003 which they sent me for free, which I leave turned off most days.
Some of the scariest shit I've ever seen. The old parts are written in COBOL, a pile of over 4000 scripts with 6 character filenames that work together to form an ERP system. It originally used flat files to store records, with multiple record types in each file. At some point they managed to upgrade to a real database server without significant code changes, which means multiple record types, with completely different fields, in each table. It updates database records using the ever popular "delete and reinsert without any atomicity" method, occasionally (dozens of times) deleting a major customer's records because it crashed while updating them. New parts of the ERP system are written in VB6, and store much of their data in Access databases, despite that there's a perfectly good database server they could use. At one point I wrote a script to monitor one of the Access databases and backup and repair it each time it became corrupted.
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Thunderbird's bayesian filter strips out and ignores all html tags in message bodies, and ignores a significant amount of the header. I think it strips out symbols too, but I don't remember for sure. In essence, it ignores the majority of the information that could tell it whether or not a message is spam. A good spam filter would try to use everything. My mail rules catch a lot more spam than Thunderbird's junk filter.
There's also a problem inherent to bayesian filtering where the spammer just needs to add a bunch of positive words/indicators to outweigh the negatives. In the real world, an email that has a number of negative words is very likely to be spam no matter how many positive words there are.
I don't think your problems are DRM related. My first guess would be to turn off Aero and switch to 16 bit color, and see if the problems persist.
"Microsoft Certified" is pretty meaningless. They pay MS to sign their drivers and there's little or no testing involved as far as I can tell. I've seen plenty of certified drivers cause BSOD's, and sometimes upgrading to a newer, uncertified driver fixed the problem.
Reading your post, I realized that SharePoint has been around for almost 6 years and I still don't know exactly what it does or why I should want it. I've just never encountered it in all these years, apart from having several unused copies lying around my desk.
Is being entrenched in one company's technology a good thing?
Can't he trust you to decide what fits your needs?
IIS and Apache are _very_ different, for example, and you can't choose between them based on product reviews.
Blame law enforcement. They don't care about spammers yet.
If they'd kill to avoid getting caught, that's all the more reason why they need life in prison.
Someone who puts themselves far above others is pretty much the definition of a sociopath. They have little or no empathy or conscience. Psychotic was probably the wrong word to use though, assuming one doesn't have to be insane to be a homicidal sociopath.
The kind of person who would kill anyone who gets in their way is exactly the kind of person who needs to spend life in prison.
"Up to" 101 years. He hasn't been sentenced yet. He'll probably get much less. I really don't care how many years they sentence him to, so long as it's longer than he'll be around.
Kind of sad that they haven't prosecuted any regular spammers for violating anti-spam laws yet, afaik.
Flash 9 for Linux has been available for at least a month or so, practically forever. Occasionally the sound stops and I have to restart Firefox, but that's the worst of my problems.
I, for one, welcome our new photonic diamond computer god, who will bless us with eternal life.
(Zardoz reference)
"Using your Mac Pro" might not have been the appropriate section to post your topic in.
The real reason some enterprise software packages cost upwards of $100k.
I think the Windows EULA, in addition to disclaiming liability, attempts to limit liability to $5.
Buying and selling shares doesn't help or hurt the company associated with them, with rare exceptions.
you can burn them to a CD (thus creating a physical backup at the same time), rip that CD back to a choice of DRM-free formats
Good if you have only a dozen songs in your collection. Wasteful and time consuming if you have thousands. You're not going to burn and rip hundreds of CD's just to transfer your songs to a regular mp3 player.
I wouldn't say "it's not bad". It's bad enough that I won't touch iTunes. Apple's long history of stubbornness and unresponsiveness to consumers is why I've never bought anything from them. Twenty two years have passed, and one button mice and tiny keyboards are still the standard on the Mac, despite that every single person who doesn't like Macs gives that as one of their reasons. It's an old, tired argument, but it only gets stronger as the years pass. Apple is an immovable rock. It's always been their way or the highway, and the highway looks pretty good. I'd never pay full price for lower quality music and the added hassle of wasting CD's just to get it into a usable format. Some people will.
It'll be hard to convince Apple that their DRM was a bad idea after 2 billion songs have been purchased by people who don't give a damn that they paid full price for low bitrate music they might not be able to play in 10 years. I swear, some people think 128k AAC sounds better than the original CD, and anything Apple touches must be the best.
Apple has the right to use DRM. If you don't like their arbitrary restrictions, don't buy from them, and educate others.
I've seen a number of people bitten by this stupid wont-fix bug-by-design. Their motherboard fails, so they move their hard disk to another system, and it won't boot into safe mode, and the official steps for making it boot again demand that they first be able to boot it. I think the logic behind Microsoft's response (or lack thereof) to this bug is that there's a slight chance you'll repurchase Windows if you started with an OEM copy.
Linux systems that fail to boot are much easier to fix. Just pop in a live cd, mount your partitions, and fix it.
To add insult to injury, Windows often fails to mount NTFS formatted hard disks from other systems, attempting unsuccessfully to mount them with the same drive letter as before. C: being taken, it'll quietly fail and you just won't be able to access it, but it'll show up in Disk Management and such, with the "change drive letter" context menu item grayed out (with documentation explanation why it would ever do such a thing). So I end up having to use Linux to recover files from a Windows disk, because Windows itself isn't up to the challenge of reading its own disks. "Just works" my ass.
The longer they can tie up your money, the more interest they'll make. They've locked countless accounts permanently, keeping the money for themselves. Blah blah blah. Rabble rabble rabble. This is nothing new. Hardly newsworthy. Beware the terms of service.
I had very strong doubts, because Outlook+Exchange integration is an overdesigned house of cards with numerous dependencies, a nightmare for IT admins everywhere, but I decided to search on Google anyways:
http://toastytech.com/guis/wineo2knotes.html
Looks like they got Outlook 2000 working. They had to copy some rpc related dlls from a real Windows system, among other things.
The last place I worked (a manufacturing company) has a 3D printer. I think it cost around $30k, but it can print any arbitrary shape AFAIK. It uses two types of plastic, one for the object itself, and another that's very brittle for building temporary supports to hold the object upright while its printing, if needed. The Fab@Home doesn't look nearly as good, but it still seems very inexpensive IMHO.
Printed parts are no match for the real thing, and printing is expensive and time consuming. You often use it to build a cheap plastic prototype of something that requires custom parts, before you commit yourself to mass producing the real thing out of aluminum or whatever.
That's hilarious.
I should read before I click submit.
Although I don't haven't used it beyond testing, I must say it's the easiest to install and configure email server I've tried. Exchange 2003, for comparison, was and still is a nightmare.
Apple doesn't make cheap Macs. If you want a high end system, the price difference is negligible, and sometimes the Mac costs less. If you just want a really cheap new system with reasonable specs, your getting a PC. The desktop I bought new 3 years ago from Dell is still about $250 cheaper than the closest Mac Mini I could configure. Sure, it's not a fair comparison, but that's because they have no comparable offering.
Apple could just flood the market by supporting OEM hardware and matching Microsoft's OEM pricing, and the expense complaint would disappear, but it'd be a risky move for Apple, costing them dearly if they fail to quickly grab a sufficient market share to offset the lost desktop hardware sales.
I'm a Linux user by the way. I don't like Windows either. But I do have a $200 system (40gb, 512mb, 1.8ghz) running Server 2003 which they sent me for free, which I leave turned off most days.
Some of the scariest shit I've ever seen. The old parts are written in COBOL, a pile of over 4000 scripts with 6 character filenames that work together to form an ERP system. It originally used flat files to store records, with multiple record types in each file. At some point they managed to upgrade to a real database server without significant code changes, which means multiple record types, with completely different fields, in each table. It updates database records using the ever popular "delete and reinsert without any atomicity" method, occasionally (dozens of times) deleting a major customer's records because it crashed while updating them. New parts of the ERP system are written in VB6, and store much of their data in Access databases, despite that there's a perfectly good database server they could use. At one point I wrote a script to monitor one of the Access databases and backup and repair it each time it became corrupted.
Pretend I said "blacklist" instead of "block", since the lists don't do the blocking.