"Why not SMTP server of who I'm connected with? I don't have the password! and it's my dad's account!"
"Actually.. I haven't tried it yet... hehe.. but that would be an open relay because untrusted people can send mail over it"
You don't need a password and it's not (necessarily) an open relay. Generally if you're logged in on one of their IPs you're automatically verified for SMTP unless they're forcing POP before SMTP. Your mom should be able to retrieve her mail while connected to any ISP but has to use the SMTP server of the ISP she's connected through. They don't (shouldn't) care what info you have in the To: and From: headers.
OTOH, while I'm almost sure you must have reasons, WTF is your mom doing with an IMAP account rather than POP? My mom can barely handle POP email. I shudder to think of trying to explain IMAP to her.
There are several ways to do what you want to do but you have to find someone at the respective ISP with a clue.
"I saw the URL "cowanalexander.com" and briefly thought "Cow Anal Exander dot Com?!?!". What sick bastards are posting here, and what the hell is an 'exander'?"
"I'll take `Anal bum cover' for $200 Alex." (SNL reference)
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I just used Ontrack EZ Recovery Pro to recover files off a 160 gig HD that was so hosed that nothing else would recognize it. Took a couple of hours to index it then I recovered to a mapped drive over the network. I've even used it to recover files off a HD that had been repartitioned and formatted. Great software available Here
The old Ontrack SystemSuite is the answer to those that hate Norton (as I do.) Full set of system utilities including hardware diags. It's now sold by VCOM
"Actually, I'm not suprised about this at all. A class action suit is basically a chance of some money for what is quite likely going to be nothing more than filling in a form."
The lawyers will get all the money. The schmucks with the small dicks will get discount coupons on more penis enlargement pills.
"Can't fire the people that open attachments, they are usually members of the board or senior staff. I can't remember one 'non exec' who opened a virus in the last 12 months, over 50% of the directors did."
How true. The last place I worked we had a "brilliant" software developer that made 10 times as much as I did. That asshole couldn't avoid a virus if his life depended on it and was constantly turning off NAV. I had to repair his machine about once a month and he'd get pissed at me if it took 30 minutes out of his "busy" schedule. What a f**kup.
I had a buddy that made a living shipping them over to Saudi Arabia. They were big & comfortable, ran forever, were easy to maintain and parts were available everywhere, even over there. Of coures gas mileage wasn't a problem. They loved them and he bought every one he could find. He'd even offer to buy them from people that didn't want to sell. He sold them for 3x cost + shipping. Made a bundle.
"Hey, how can you knock the Vega??? Now here is a car that once you dropped a 350ci motor into it the freaking thing wouldn't quit!"
I was lucky(?) enough to own a Vega wagon during the oil embargo. Filling the tank went from $3 to $7. A year or two later after cooking the motor I dumped a mildly warmed over 350 in it. Built my own 4 link rear suspension with a narrowed 12 bolt Chevy rear end. Painted it with a black base, a light dusting of silver 'flake and a few coats of candy brandywine. It came out a cool looking black cherry with a slight sparkle. Drew a lot of interest. Would run low 11's and was still very streetable.
Story time: After coming back from a night of street racing in St. Paul (MN) one night with a buddy about 2am we stopped halfway through the Lowry tunnel*, set the line-lok and lit 'er up all the way out the other end. Left so much tire smoke in there it probably didn't clear out till morning rush hour. Ah, fun times.
* Kids, don't try this at home. This was back in about 1974 and there was NO traffic at that time of night. If you tried this today you'd get squished into something resembling a puddle of jello before you got slowed down to 35 mph. And MNDOT has cameras in there now. You wouldn't get 2 miles before the cops had your ass.
Unlike a lot of people I liked WinAmp3 and had no problems with it. But, it did take 6 to 8 seconds to load on my AMD 1700+. WinAmp 5 loads in about 3 seconds on my P200. Don't know that I'll care about the other "improvements". I like the classic skin and the fact that I can squish it up into 3 thin lines (player, equalizer & playlist) at the top of my screen and still get reasonable feedback on what's happening without getting in my way.
Couldn't ATT scan their current email base for this same info? Sure it's going to take 1+ sets of human eyes to make sure an IP is legit but that's going to be needed anyhow to review the incoming requests to be added to the whitelist.
Lets take this one step further. Six months down the road I, a future customer, business partner or supplier to ATT whom has never heard of this policy, send them some email wanting LD service for Humongous Corp, to supply widgets at half their current cost or whatever and has its mail bounce or go unanswered. ATT is the big loser. Must be nice to be a company that has no need for additional customers or suppliers.
More info on the deep thinkers at ATT and other big businesses can be found in the book "The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth," by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor. A review can be found at the Washington Post here (some non-personal info may be required before reading) (Remove obligtory Slashdot Extra Space(TM)):
(The book) offers a funny look back at how AT&T threw away $50 billion in just over a decade on doomed identity changes.
After exiting the local phone market in 1984, AT&T first tried to become a computer company, buying NCR for $7.4 billion only to sell it five years later at roughly half price. Next it entered the cell-phone market by acquiring McCaw Cellular for $11.6 billion and sinking $15 billion more into improvements. But when AT&T spun off its wireless business in 2000, the new wireless entity was valued at a mere two-thirds of its investment. Then came the disastrous cable bet: A few years after forking over $112 billion to buy TCI and Media One, AT&T unloaded those assets to Comcast for $72 billion.
"This is an honest question -- why do so many people choose to create destructive and malicious programs instead of harvesting the glory that can be had when a really good app is written? That's simply a mentality that I don't understand and perhaps never will."
Because spammers are nothing more than script kiddies. They have no real skills of their own.
"Could this mean that spammers could use "jkfjjd.museum" and bypass this kind of filters?"
"(Man, I hope someone else thought of this first for I'd hate to be the one that gave them this idea)"
Nope, the spammers already thought of it. Many ISPs have implemented spam filters that check the validity of a domain before allowing it through the server. This effectivly makes that check useless. Now, there are ways around this but considering how long it took my ISP to implement domain verification, I don't hold much hope for them fixing it anytime soon. Noticed a huge increase in SPAM lately? I have. Went from a few per week to hundreds. Thank Verisign.
This is similar (but much worse) to typing "google" or "slashdot" into the address bar of IE or Netscape and being redirected to the MS or NS search page instead of where you really wanted to go. It's all about page views and eyeballs. And yes, I know this can be fixed in IE & NS but it doesn't come that way by default and relatively few know it can be fixed or how to do it. Thank God for Opera. It does it right right out of the box.
Verisign has become the latest scum of the internet and should be banished from having any control over TLDs. It should have happened two years ago when they first tried to hijack domain registrations.
"Either I'm shopping in the wrong place or you're grossly misinformed on the price of new DVDs."
You're shopping in the wrong place. I just bought an armload of older titles at Walfart for $5.88. Granted, they weren't new releases but they were still movies I would enjoy owning and watching a few more times. Target always has their $10 & $15 racks which contain older stuff along with releases that are only a few months old. Some are surprisingly new. Best Buy has lots of sub $10 titles but you often have to dig around for them.
As for new releases, those same 3 retailers usually have them for $15 or less during release week. The occasional title might go for $16.99 or $17.99 for a week before it jumps $5+ for a few months until it falls back down to that level again.
I downloaded an Xvid DVD rip of Christine with the intent of rendering it to SVCD. That was until I found the DVD at Target for $10. I dumped the Xvid and bought the DVD. And, I gave up moderator points to respond to this thread. You can thank me later.
"But guess what, the porn industry doesn't hunt people down and force them to cough up their life savings for downloading a 3 minute movie for example."
That may be only because you don't hear about it. One of the guys on the front lines of a large national usenet provider once said (and I'll be damned if I can find it right now so I'll paraphrase), "The porn guys make the **AA look like cute furry little kittens when it comes to protecting their copyrights".
You don't see much evidence of that though. There's tons of it available on Bittorrent, Kazaa and usenet. Plus, the usenet porn posters aren't into disquising filenames like they do in the movie groups. I respect the guy as very knowlegable though and he's in a position to know.
Personally I'm still looking for a good music db/organizing program for either Linux (preferred) or Windows (thank you samba) - I'm in the process of ripping ~1000 CDs to high bitrate MP3 for my TiVo and am in desperate need for some cataloging and playlist creation tools. From what little I've heard iTunes would fit the bill and do it well... but obviously I still need to find something until then (suggestions welcome).
For Windows I like ShufflePlay. Great tagging & cataloging options. Virtual drive cataloging, relative playlists, publish playlists to text or HTML. Lots of cool stuff and only $10.
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"Why not SMTP server of who I'm connected with?
I don't have the password!
and it's my dad's account!"
"Actually.. I haven't tried it yet... hehe.. but that would be an open relay because untrusted people can send mail over it"
You don't need a password and it's not (necessarily) an open relay. Generally if you're logged in on one of their IPs you're automatically verified for SMTP unless they're forcing POP before SMTP. Your mom should be able to retrieve her mail while connected to any ISP but has to use the SMTP server of the ISP she's connected through. They don't (shouldn't) care what info you have in the To: and From: headers.
OTOH, while I'm almost sure you must have reasons, WTF is your mom doing with an IMAP account rather than POP? My mom can barely handle POP email. I shudder to think of trying to explain IMAP to her.
There are several ways to do what you want to do but you have to find someone at the respective ISP with a clue.
"I saw the URL "cowanalexander.com" and briefly thought "Cow Anal Exander dot Com?!?!". What sick bastards are posting here, and what the hell is an 'exander'?"
"I'll take `Anal bum cover' for $200 Alex."
(SNL reference)
"Oh well, just remember to duck and cover."
And wrap your house in plastic and duct tape.
I just used Ontrack EZ Recovery Pro to recover files off a 160 gig HD that was so hosed that nothing else would recognize it. Took a couple of hours to index it then I recovered to a mapped drive over the network. I've even used it to recover files off a HD that had been repartitioned and formatted. Great software available Here
The old Ontrack SystemSuite is the answer to those that hate Norton (as I do.) Full set of system utilities including hardware diags. It's now sold by VCOM
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&q=you+have+reached+the+end+of+the+internet& btnG=Google+Search
Searched the web for you have reached the end of the internet.
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,400,000. Search took 0.27 seconds
"Actually, I'm not suprised about this at all. A class action suit is basically a chance of some money for what is quite likely going to be nothing more than filling in a form."
The lawyers will get all the money. The schmucks with the small dicks will get discount coupons on more penis enlargement pills.
I used velcro to hold an additional hard drive on top of the 2 floppies in my old Amiga 3000. Worked like a charm.
"Can't fire the people that open attachments, they are usually members of the board or senior staff. I can't remember one 'non exec' who opened a virus in the last 12 months, over 50% of the directors did."
How true. The last place I worked we had a "brilliant" software developer that made 10 times as much as I did. That asshole couldn't avoid a virus if his life depended on it and was constantly turning off NAV. I had to repair his machine about once a month and he'd get pissed at me if it took 30 minutes out of his "busy" schedule. What a f**kup.
Tucker had a turning headlight back in '48 but they only built 50 of them.
I had a buddy that made a living shipping them over to Saudi Arabia. They were big & comfortable, ran forever, were easy to maintain and parts were available everywhere, even over there. Of coures gas mileage wasn't a problem. They loved them and he bought every one he could find. He'd even offer to buy them from people that didn't want to sell. He sold them for 3x cost + shipping. Made a bundle.
"Hey, how can you knock the Vega??? Now here is a car that once you dropped a 350ci motor into it the freaking thing wouldn't quit!"
I was lucky(?) enough to own a Vega wagon during the oil embargo. Filling the tank went from $3 to $7. A year or two later after cooking the motor I dumped a mildly warmed over 350 in it. Built my own 4 link rear suspension with a narrowed 12 bolt Chevy rear end. Painted it with a black base, a light dusting of silver 'flake and a few coats of candy brandywine. It came out a cool looking black cherry with a slight sparkle. Drew a lot of interest. Would run low 11's and was still very streetable.
Story time: After coming back from a night of street racing in St. Paul (MN) one night with a buddy about 2am we stopped halfway through the Lowry tunnel*, set the line-lok and lit 'er up all the way out the other end. Left so much tire smoke in there it probably didn't clear out till morning rush hour. Ah, fun times.
* Kids, don't try this at home. This was back in about 1974 and there was NO traffic at that time of night. If you tried this today you'd get squished into something resembling a puddle of jello before you got slowed down to 35 mph. And MNDOT has cameras in there now. You wouldn't get 2 miles before the cops had your ass.
They're still selling you Neons, they're just putting a station wagon body on them. The Cruiser is based on the Neon platform.
"What, you find the horse-collar grill unattractive?"
Horse-collar grill? I always thought it looked more like a pussy.
Unlike a lot of people I liked WinAmp3 and had no problems with it. But, it did take 6 to 8 seconds to load on my AMD 1700+. WinAmp 5 loads in about 3 seconds on my P200. Don't know that I'll care about the other "improvements". I like the classic skin and the fact that I can squish it up into 3 thin lines (player, equalizer & playlist) at the top of my screen and still get reasonable feedback on what's happening without getting in my way.
I just deleted 30 gigs of MP3's off my machine yesterday. Oh wait, now they're on that machine over there. Does that count?
Never cared for it. Now Parsec, that was a game!
How many do you want? I've got a basement full of the stuff.
I've got a CDC 10 meg HD hooked to mine that still runs 20 years later. Take that Maxtor/WD!!!
Couldn't ATT scan their current email base for this same info? Sure it's going to take 1+ sets of human eyes to make sure an IP is legit but that's going to be needed anyhow to review the incoming requests to be added to the whitelist.
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Lets take this one step further. Six months down the road I, a future customer, business partner or supplier to ATT whom has never heard of this policy, send them some email wanting LD service for Humongous Corp, to supply widgets at half their current cost or whatever and has its mail bounce or go unanswered. ATT is the big loser. Must be nice to be a company that has no need for additional customers or suppliers.
More info on the deep thinkers at ATT and other big businesses can be found in the book "The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth," by Clayton Christensen and
Michael Raynor. A review can be found at the Washington Post here (some non-personal info may be required before reading) (Remove obligtory Slashdot Extra Space(TM)):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A
A small excerpt:
(The book) offers a funny look back at how AT&T threw away $50 billion in just over a decade on doomed identity changes.
After exiting the local phone market in 1984, AT&T first tried to become a computer company, buying NCR for $7.4 billion only to sell it five years later at roughly half price. Next it entered the cell-phone market by acquiring McCaw Cellular for $11.6 billion and sinking $15 billion more into improvements. But when AT&T spun off its wireless business in 2000, the new wireless entity was valued at a mere two-thirds of its investment. Then came the disastrous cable bet: A few years after forking over $112 billion to buy TCI and Media One, AT&T unloaded those assets to Comcast for $72 billion.
Yup, the dinosaur is about dead.
"Just boot with the mouse button held down; any ejectable media will be ejected before booting."
Which mouse button? Oh, never mind...
"This is an honest question -- why do so many people choose to create destructive and malicious programs instead of harvesting the glory that can be had when a really good app is written? That's simply a mentality that I don't understand and perhaps never will."
Because spammers are nothing more than script kiddies. They have no real skills of their own.
"Could this mean that spammers could use "jkfjjd.museum" and bypass this kind of filters?"
"(Man, I hope someone else thought of this first for I'd hate to be the one that gave them this idea)"
Nope, the spammers already thought of it. Many ISPs have implemented spam filters that check the validity of a domain before allowing it through the server. This effectivly makes that check useless. Now, there are ways around this but considering how long it took my ISP to implement domain verification, I don't hold much hope for them fixing it anytime soon. Noticed a huge increase in SPAM lately? I have. Went from a few per week to hundreds. Thank Verisign.
This is similar (but much worse) to typing "google" or "slashdot" into the address bar of IE or Netscape and being redirected to the MS or NS search page instead of where you really wanted to go. It's all about page views and eyeballs. And yes, I know this can be fixed in IE & NS but it doesn't come that way by default and relatively few know it can be fixed or how to do it. Thank God for Opera. It does it right right out of the box.
Verisign has become the latest scum of the internet and should be banished from having any control over TLDs. It should have happened two years ago when they first tried to hijack domain registrations.
How about this?
Perhaps from now on, small asteroids should be called hemorrhoids.
Yea, it was too easy.
"Either I'm shopping in the wrong place or you're grossly misinformed on the price of new DVDs."
You're shopping in the wrong place. I just bought an armload of older titles at Walfart for $5.88. Granted, they weren't new releases but they were still movies I would enjoy owning and watching a few more times. Target always has their $10 & $15 racks which contain older stuff along with releases that are only a few months old. Some are surprisingly new. Best Buy has lots of sub $10 titles but you often have to dig around for them.
As for new releases, those same 3 retailers usually have them for $15 or less during release week. The occasional title might go for $16.99 or $17.99 for a week before it jumps $5+ for a few months until it falls back down to that level again.
I downloaded an Xvid DVD rip of Christine with the intent of rendering it to SVCD. That was until I found the DVD at Target for $10. I dumped the Xvid and bought the DVD. And, I gave up moderator points to respond to this thread. You can thank me later.
"But guess what, the porn industry doesn't hunt people down and force them to cough up their life savings for downloading a 3 minute movie for example."
That may be only because you don't hear about it. One of the guys on the front lines of a large national usenet provider once said (and I'll be damned if I can find it right now so I'll paraphrase), "The porn guys make the **AA look like cute furry little kittens when it comes to protecting their copyrights".
You don't see much evidence of that though. There's tons of it available on Bittorrent, Kazaa and usenet. Plus, the usenet porn posters aren't into disquising filenames like they do in the movie groups. I respect the guy as very knowlegable though and he's in a position to know.
Personally I'm still looking for a good music db/organizing program for either Linux (preferred) or Windows (thank you samba) - I'm in the process of ripping ~1000 CDs to high bitrate MP3 for my TiVo and am in desperate need for some cataloging and playlist creation tools. From what little I've heard iTunes would fit the bill and do it well... but obviously I still need to find something until then (suggestions welcome).
For Windows I like ShufflePlay. Great tagging & cataloging options. Virtual drive cataloging, relative playlists, publish playlists to text or HTML. Lots of cool stuff and only $10.
http://ww.fliptech.net/shuffleplay/index.shtml