Actually, I think it's "Tux Rux" (second entry under Penguin -- compare the grandparent's photo with TR's photo). They were selling these two years ago at our local Safeway supermarket, and I got one as a Christmas present then. When you push his belly, he will alternate with "Hi! I'm Tux Rux" and a very disturbing growl/purr that I can only assume is the sound that a very irate poked penguin would make.
Yeah, it's parallel scanning. The four seconds is the average time -- the box is also doing other things which is taking away CPU time from scanning. My long-term goal is to make the server solely a mail hub, do some spindle-moving, and to write a "sophie/spamc"-style client for ClamAV (or just drop it altogether). That should bring the average time down considerably.
Personally, I'm not too happy with the four second average time, but if it's blocking Microsoft virii... that's time I don't have to spend cleaning up after Klez.
We also use Norton AV for Exchange (don't even/ask/ why we have two separate mail systems), which has 1/10th of the users my server does. Messages on it take longer to scan and deliver (I wish I could give numbers but I don't have access to that information). Since I'm not the NT admin, I'm not sure if that's because the box is set up inefficiently or if it's due to the nature of the relationship between Exchange and Norton.
I've been running qmail forever at my place of employment, so when the bosses told me it was finally time to get an anti-Microsoft virus solution on my mail server, I dug around. Everyone seems to be using Sophos, so we went with that. Having used it for just half a month, I am really impressed with it. Easy to update. Fairly quick. I highly recommend it. However, if you do go with it I urge you to look into Sophie.
I'm also using Clam Anti-Virus as a backup. Out of the 3000+ viruses my server has caught so far, only 4 have been caught by ClamAV. Probably don't need it, but hey... anything free is worth keeping around.
I threw spamassassin in there because I was already wasting time scanning -- might as well tag spam. It helps my users filter spam, and they're happier for it. Plus, it gave me stats to throw out there -- nearly 50% of our incoming email that originates off-site email is spam. Scary.
I'm very happy with our results. My server scans upwards of 20000+ messages a day with the average time of ~4 seconds per message. I could probably get it to scan faster if I dropped ClamAV, which is the slowest piece of the puzzle right now. At any rate, I set it all up in less than a day. Everything was well documented.
We do this at my Uni, but we use the last four of our internal database's person id instead of the social security number. We started doing it three years ago when we got a new CIO -- he claimed that at his last job they never had a collision (with over 10,000 students) in a long period of time (I can't remember how long off the top of my head). However, in the last three years, we've had two, and we have far less students than that.
Still, it's better than our previous method. Far less collisions, even if the usernames look like AOL/Hotmail/Yahoo! logins.
Not in all places. Here, it's 10 -- we have two area codes that overlap. I'm still slowly getting used to dialing at least 10 digits whenever I make a call...
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I was using it, too, until I discovered it was causing some caching problems on the clients; that is, I had it in front of a webmail program. The user could log out, go back a page or two from the button bar, hit reload, and be relogged in. Since this happens, and we have a lot of kiosks... well, you get the picture. Removing mod_gzip fixed this problem.
Now don't get me wrong -- I love mod_gzip. I have it installed on my other webservers. Just beware that it's not the holy grail yet.
I thought it would show Jar-Jar's progress towards enlightenment and progression to a Jedi Knight himself. Similar to that which we saw with Luke Skywalker starting as a simple farm hand....
Of course Jar Jar will be a Jedi (look at all the "blind luck" he had in the first film -- the force is strong, if not blatently obvious, in him). I predict Jar Jar will make the ultimate sacrifice trying to help to separate the Skywalker twins from the Empire.
It's also a lot easier to be "anonymous" on the Internet than in real life. An innocent bystander can't happen by and notice a crime taking place on the 'Net due to the nature of the structure, so there's a sense of "I won't get caught if I DDoS". Because of this, I believe the ratio is more than 2/1000 on the 'Net -- probably more like 50/1000. Due to the anonyminity, people feel they can get away with more than they would normally feel comfortable with in meat space.
Maybe Ben can finally get his Tick movie bankrolled. I believe he's got a script ready, and now he has the actors (if they're willing to be on the big screen).
I think it could work. It won't be a huge success, but it'll definitely have a cult following.
This is exactly what we do at my University. We went with Packeteer and have never looked back. Before we limited p2p clients, they were utilizing 80-90% of our T1 pipe, and hardly anything else could get through. Now that they're limited, the students (and professors) don't complain that the network is slow all the time. Those that use p2p clients don't seem to mind -- they're still getting their warez and illegal music, just not as fast.
The main exceptions to that rule of thumb are "Paul the Samurai", which was also written by Ben Edlund (at least the first issue or two -- don't remember if it went anywhere after that)
He wrote the three Paul comics in the Limited Series, but he only gets credit for concept in the regular series. The entire series was written by Clay Griffith and ran ten issues. Clay also wrote the Man-Eating Cow spinoff and the two of them together shared a common story in Paul #9, #10 and MEC #9, #10.
"Chainsaw Vigilante", which I think was by someone else but was still pretty funny
It was written (and drawn) by Zander Cannon, and only comprised of three issues.
If you want, you can read more about all the comics at Tribute To The Tick. It's not completely up to date, but it's got all the old stuff and most of the new up to about a year ago.
I wholly suggest that if anyone is looking into diving into the Tick comics, get the original series, and get the Omnibus editions. NEC is wonderful about putting a lot of Tick comics together into one book so you can buy it at a lower price. Plus, they're easier to find, so I've heard...
Try writing a mail filter that takes a mail message on stdin and reads a configuration file to decide what to do.
Well, I'd probably use perl or python if I were going to do something like that. At any rate, thanks for your tips -- I'll keep them in mind the next time I need to do something more complex than tee and cat (which happens more often than not).
How do you open more than two output file or more than one input file concurrently? csh has no primitives for opening and closing files beyond redirecting a single command or pipeline.
Output to two files? tee(1) is your friend. Input from two files? Well, I'll admit you have me there. If they're text files, I usually cat them and pipe them into the program over STDIN. I suppose one could do that with non-text files, I just haven't tried.
FWIW, I'm currently a tcsh user, although I have been looking very hard at zsh the past week or so and will probably switch very soon now. zsh solves a lot of the problems I've been having with tcsh...
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that found the "irony" in his statement.
Which reminds me of this great Blackadder quote:
Edmund: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Baldrick: Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
-- Blackddder III - Amy and Amiability (episode 5)
Another method, and the one I personally use now, is to use Tagged Message Delivery Agent, or TMDA. It requires Python and qmail, though, so if you hate either one of those don't bother looking.
I turned it on at the beginning of July and I have yet to see one piece of spam since. I have it set up so that all my friends don't even know I'm running it.
Why can't somone just write a Microsoft Virus that downloads a Seti/RC5/Protein Folding client and uses the CPU cycles for that purpose? Okay, so it wouldn't be ethical, but it sure would be amusing.
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Actually, I think it's "Tux Rux" (second entry under Penguin -- compare the grandparent's photo with TR's photo). They were selling these two years ago at our local Safeway supermarket, and I got one as a Christmas present then. When you push his belly, he will alternate with "Hi! I'm Tux Rux" and a very disturbing growl/purr that I can only assume is the sound that a very irate poked penguin would make.
Yeah, it's parallel scanning. The four seconds is the average time -- the box is also doing other things which is taking away CPU time from scanning. My long-term goal is to make the server solely a mail hub, do some spindle-moving, and to write a "sophie/spamc"-style client for ClamAV (or just drop it altogether). That should bring the average time down considerably.
/ask/ why we have two separate mail systems), which has 1/10th of the users my server does. Messages on it take longer to scan and deliver (I wish I could give numbers but I don't have access to that information). Since I'm not the NT admin, I'm not sure if that's because the box is set up inefficiently or if it's due to the nature of the relationship between Exchange and Norton.
Personally, I'm not too happy with the four second average time, but if it's blocking Microsoft virii... that's time I don't have to spend cleaning up after Klez.
We also use Norton AV for Exchange (don't even
I've been running qmail forever at my place of employment, so when the bosses told me it was finally time to get an anti-Microsoft virus solution on my mail server, I dug around. Everyone seems to be using Sophos, so we went with that. Having used it for just half a month, I am really impressed with it. Easy to update. Fairly quick. I highly recommend it. However, if you do go with it I urge you to look into Sophie.
I'm also using Clam Anti-Virus as a backup. Out of the 3000+ viruses my server has caught so far, only 4 have been caught by ClamAV. Probably don't need it, but hey... anything free is worth keeping around.
I threw spamassassin in there because I was already wasting time scanning -- might as well tag spam. It helps my users filter spam, and they're happier for it. Plus, it gave me stats to throw out there -- nearly 50% of our incoming email that originates off-site email is spam. Scary.
Okay, so here's my setup:
- qmail-scanner
- Sophos (SAVI) + Sophie
- ClamAV (I need to write/find a client like Sophie for it -- it has the daemon, just no client)
- Spamassassin
I'm very happy with our results. My server scans upwards of 20000+ messages a day with the average time of ~4 seconds per message. I could probably get it to scan faster if I dropped ClamAV, which is the slowest piece of the puzzle right now. At any rate, I set it all up in less than a day. Everything was well documented.Good luck.
We do this at my Uni, but we use the last four of our internal database's person id instead of the social security number. We started doing it three years ago when we got a new CIO -- he claimed that at his last job they never had a collision (with over 10,000 students) in a long period of time (I can't remember how long off the top of my head). However, in the last three years, we've had two, and we have far less students than that.
Still, it's better than our previous method. Far less collisions, even if the usernames look like AOL/Hotmail/Yahoo! logins.
Not in all places. Here, it's 10 -- we have two area codes that overlap. I'm still slowly getting used to dialing at least 10 digits whenever I make a call...
I was using it, too, until I discovered it was causing some caching problems on the clients; that is, I had it in front of a webmail program. The user could log out, go back a page or two from the button bar, hit reload, and be relogged in. Since this happens, and we have a lot of kiosks... well, you get the picture. Removing mod_gzip fixed this problem.
Now don't get me wrong -- I love mod_gzip. I have it installed on my other webservers. Just beware that it's not the holy grail yet.
What you're looking for is ADOdb for PHP. I've been using it for about a year. It is an essential tool for PHP, much like DBI/DBD is for Perl.
It's what we use at my university. It isn't the greatest package in the world, but our CIO swears by it and it hasn't given us too many problems yet.
Of course Jar Jar will be a Jedi (look at all the "blind luck" he had in the first film -- the force is strong, if not blatently obvious, in him). I predict Jar Jar will make the ultimate sacrifice trying to help to separate the Skywalker twins from the Empire.
Was played. They cancelled the show, remember?
I hope they thaw before they insert. OTOH, it is possible to literally have a cold heart now...
Ah, the wonders of the 21st century. What will they think of next... adult stem cells?
It's also a lot easier to be "anonymous" on the Internet than in real life. An innocent bystander can't happen by and notice a crime taking place on the 'Net due to the nature of the structure, so there's a sense of "I won't get caught if I DDoS". Because of this, I believe the ratio is more than 2/1000 on the 'Net -- probably more like 50/1000. Due to the anonyminity, people feel they can get away with more than they would normally feel comfortable with in meat space.
Maybe Ben can finally get his Tick movie bankrolled. I believe he's got a script ready, and now he has the actors (if they're willing to be on the big screen).
I think it could work. It won't be a huge success, but it'll definitely have a cult following.
This is exactly what we do at my University. We went with Packeteer and have never looked back. Before we limited p2p clients, they were utilizing 80-90% of our T1 pipe, and hardly anything else could get through. Now that they're limited, the students (and professors) don't complain that the network is slow all the time. Those that use p2p clients don't seem to mind -- they're still getting their warez and illegal music, just not as fast.
Water ice is made up of hydrogen and stupidity? You learn something new every day. Thanks, Slashdot! ;)
So... how long before we get Japanese cat women, like those found in certain anime series?! Rowr!
He wrote the three Paul comics in the Limited Series, but he only gets credit for concept in the regular series. The entire series was written by Clay Griffith and ran ten issues. Clay also wrote the Man-Eating Cow spinoff and the two of them together shared a common story in Paul #9, #10 and MEC #9, #10.
It was written (and drawn) by Zander Cannon, and only comprised of three issues.
If you want, you can read more about all the comics at Tribute To The Tick. It's not completely up to date, but it's got all the old stuff and most of the new up to about a year ago.
I wholly suggest that if anyone is looking into diving into the Tick comics, get the original series, and get the Omnibus editions. NEC is wonderful about putting a lot of Tick comics together into one book so you can buy it at a lower price. Plus, they're easier to find, so I've heard...
I have no problem running the nightlies on my VIC-20. Here's my current browser id string:
"Mozilla/5.0 (GEOS; U; VIC-20 6502; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011119"
Perhaps you need more memory?
Well, I'd probably use perl or python if I were going to do something like that. At any rate, thanks for your tips -- I'll keep them in mind the next time I need to do something more complex than tee and cat (which happens more often than not).
Output to two files? tee(1) is your friend. Input from two files? Well, I'll admit you have me there. If they're text files, I usually cat them and pipe them into the program over STDIN. I suppose one could do that with non-text files, I just haven't tried.
FWIW, I'm currently a tcsh user, although I have been looking very hard at zsh the past week or so and will probably switch very soon now. zsh solves a lot of the problems I've been having with tcsh...
I'm glad I wasn't the only one that found the "irony" in his statement.
Which reminds me of this great Blackadder quote:
Another method, and the one I personally use now, is to use Tagged Message Delivery Agent, or TMDA. It requires Python and qmail, though, so if you hate either one of those don't bother looking.
I turned it on at the beginning of July and I have yet to see one piece of spam since. I have it set up so that all my friends don't even know I'm running it.
Why can't somone just write a Microsoft Virus that downloads a Seti/RC5/Protein Folding client and uses the CPU cycles for that purpose? Okay, so it wouldn't be ethical, but it sure would be amusing.
You probably know about The Bard's Legacy then, right? If not, check it out. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
I've been using this for years. Does everything I need it to w/o being too much clutter:
My .tcshrc has:
which produces:
I don't expect anyone to read this, but I figured I'd at least post for posterity. Maybe someone will find it useful.