I was almost positive that Baghdad was the center, but Middle Eastern history is not my area of specialty, so I decided to avoid making a mistake. Thanks for your excellent clarification.
Once upon a time the Middle East was the center of learning the world over. Scholars of all religions and nationalities flocked there to exchange ideas and learn. This tolerance made the Middle East rich both economically and culturally. Then fundamentalist religion reared its ugly head, stifling all types of learning except for the Koran. Is there any chance of overcoming the fundamentalist shackles of intolerance and return the Middle East to its former glory of knowlege and economic vibrants?
A smarthost is basically a mail relay. You pay for that when your own ISP is in the slums. For Exim, the change to the configuration file consists of all of three lines. I don't know what is involved for other MTAs, but I'm sure it's equally as easy.
There is no getting out of a contract. There is no changing DNS. There is no looking for a new ISP.
Finding a smarthost might take more than 5 minutes, but if it takes you that long to modify your mail server configuration through the smarthost, then you are too stupid to run a mail server.
With the standard Shuttle boxes, you can leave out the floppy drive and stick in another hard drive. That's what my plan is with my SK41G I'm using as a server. It has a CD and hard drive, no floppy. When I need more drive space I have room to stick in another one. I use the network to transfer files. If, for some reason, that wasn't possible, I can use my USB drive (Laks watch).
you have your government's charter/constitution which allows you rights
Excuse me? The Constitution doesn't allow me anything. It tells the government which rights I possess naturally and puts limits on the government to prevent them from abusing my rights.
My wife (a professional translator) was kind enough to translate the phrase into Hungarian. It's written with "flying" accents since Slashdot still doesn't realize there's other languages in the world.
2nd person singular:
Dugd fel magadnak a licencedet oda, ahol sose su:t a nap!
2nd person plural:
Dugja'tok fel magatoknak a licenceteket oda, ahol sose su:t a nap!
(Technically, it is saying, '..where the sun never shines')
This works in Exim 4.x. This goes in the acl_smtp_rcpt:
deny message = Fake Yahoo, so you must be spam.
log_message = Fake Yahoo
senders = *@yahoo.com
condition = ${if match {$sender_host_name}{\Nyahoo.com$\N}{no}{yes}}
I also have rules for AOL, MSN, and Hotmail. the only differences for each is the string to match on (and the deny/log messages).
I recently re-evaluated my antispam blocks. Over the xmas holiday there was a very noticable increase in the amount of crap slipping though my defenses.
I ended up tweaking a few SpamAssassin rules to deal with what is popular (with the spammers) at the moment. This will need to be adjusted manually as the spammers change tactics. SpamAssassin is scanning everything after the DATA ACL while still connected so it can deny the message and not bounce it to some poor schmuck being joe-jobbed.
I also made a few changes to the blacklists. sbl-sbl.spamhaus.org is now my all time favorite blacklist. I also block all of China and Korea. I don't know anyone in those countries and they constitute a large percentage of all spam. Yes, I know the U.S. is the biggest source of spam, but I can't exactly blacklist my own country and expect to get email from friends and associates.
Another major change was to stop accepting email from dynamic ip addresses. This forced me to add a condition to allow one friend's server to send to me. I've since removed that exception as he's finally listened to reason and is routing his stuff through another mail server he administrates that is on a static ip address.
In the week since I've tweaked my settings a total of 3 or 4 spams have made through. Zero would be nice, but that isn't attainable without a serious risk of false positives, and probably not even then.
Finally, there's my personal blacklist. People or companies who annoy me too much end up in there. One was for an online magazine my wife signed up for that doesn't seem to have way of unsubscribing. After several futile attempts by my wife to get them to stop sending their stuff I stuck them into the blacklist.
On a few occassions I've blocked ip addresses at the firewall. Spammers using software that does't recognize the "bugger off" error code, NameProtect.com just because I don't want them snooping around on my system, and the occassional script kiddie.
I guess you can say it's a game. I keep score by comparing the number of "rejects" in my logs to the amount of spam getting through. I'm winning by a long shot (250 to 4 according to my current log).
When your business is in a small town, it would not take long for the predominent business to ruin the economy. When the entire world is your marketplace, losing the market of one town or city will not noticeably affect your bottom line. If enough cities are economically damaged, the company could see a reduction in sales, but that would be many years into the future. Heads of companies are hired and fired based on last quarter's earnings, not theoretical profits of five or ten years from now.
One of Adam Smith's beliefs was it is in a business's best interest to promote the betterment of the locale in which it resides. This was true at one time. If you had a symbiotic relationship with a small town, it was not a good idea "lay waste" to the financial well-being of the inhabitants if you desired to stay in business for long.
These days, however, large corporations have absolutely zero connection to any town or city. If a city can no longer afford their product or service because no one has jobs, so what? There are thousands of other towns and cities they can deal with.
Take IBM, for example (because their ad is currently at the top of this page). In some locations, they are a major employer. They recently announced they are closing some offices and shipping the jobs over-seas. If they are that town's major employer, the local economy will be devistated. It has a rippling effect. At first the luxury businesses will feel the pinch (movies, restaurants, etc). Later, staple businesses such as supermarkets will be hurting. This does not concern IBM in any way since they only answer to the stockholders - most of whom don't look at the long term effects of these decisions, just at today's stock price.
The knee-jerk reaction is to implement protectionist laws. This typically results in a trade war and everyone ends up just as bad off as before - if not worse.
Workers can accept lower salaries, but when you are competing against a cost-of-living measured in pennies a day, you simply can't drop your salary that far and still be able to pay rent and buy food.
Personally, I think the world is in a transitional period between local and global economies. As places like India gain more jobs, the competition will heat up, raising the salaries. Eventually it will reach some kind of equilibrium. How long this will take is way beyond my amateurish guesses. It could be a few years or it could be decades. Or I could be completely clueless since economics is not a field I know anything about.
It wasn't the 'tit-for-tat' that has everyone upset. It was what the ass-hat Brazilian judge said when he signed the court order, "I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis."
Comparing the fingerprinting of people visiting our country to genocide is the height of stupidity. I'm surprised the Brazillian people allow someone so stupid to be a judge.
I didn't yell at anyone on the phone. The correspondence was entirely by email. My response was intended to let them know that their "rip off a loyal customer" attitude was not acceptable.
And yes, I bought a new drive and installed it myself. It cost about $120. I know I could have got it cheaper online, but I prefer buying from the local geek store (NCal Computers) because they provide excellent support. If there's a problem in the next three years I can take it to them and they will "make it right". Getting support from an online company can be a major pain in the ass.
Oh, the guys that work at NCal run Linux on their personal systems and actually know what the hell they're talking about. Ever try to discuss a technical issue with the idiot at CompUSA or Best Buy?
The same thing happened to my wife. The hard drive in her HP laptop (zt1130) died. While waiting to get a replacement (had to wait until payday), she booted with knoppix and used a USB drive (my Laks watch) to store her desktop and bookmarks. I had hoped the experience would convince her to let me install Linux when the replacement drive arrived, but alas, she wanted WinXP.:(
Off-topic: That damn HP laptop convinced me to never buy another HP product again. The drive died when the thing was 13 months old. The manufacturer warranty on it was 3 years, but HP only covered 1 year (it was OEMed). Their offered to fix it for $269 to $649 (depending on the work required). I got rather nasty with them when I got that quote. My exact words to them in my response was, "In other words, you do not honor manufacturer's warranties (which should be 3 years), plus you try to screw your customers by charging them $269 or more to replace a $100 (retail price) hard drive. How nice."
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It's very useful for endurance riding. If you run your horse too hard you are required to rest the horse at stages, which can greatly affect your standings. You can be outright disqualified if you push your horse too hard. With the monitors, you can push your horse to its maximum speed possible without endangering its health.
For track racing, I wouldn't know. I'm not a fan of the track racing industry as there is too much abuse associated with it.
And yes, I do have my own saddle (obscure ST:TNG reference).
Don't make the mistake of thinking it's ok to let the government limit speech that some find offensive. Once those limits start, you won't be able to stop them.
One example springs to mind. In the U.K., "hate speech" is illegal. A politician said in one of his speeches that "we need better controls of immigration because too many undesirables are entering the country" (not an exact quote). He was charged with making a hate speech. Even though the charges were dropped, it still shows the danger of these types of laws.
Eventually they will kill someone. They've been very lucky so far that no one has died in one of their fires or bombings. They are terrorist scum, despite what they state for public consumption.
Not for lack of trying. They are guilty of arson, burning down people's homes. They have planted bombs at companies. One of which was two blocks from where my wife works. A side not to the ELF fucks: If anyone in my family is ever injured by one of your acts of terrorism I will start shooting your members in the head with a gun. Oh, and I consider PETA to be in bed with you and will treat that terrorist support organization's members in the same fashion.
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You also need someone who can sell your product or your company services. This is something that 99% of geeks are unable to do well.
So you need a few coders, you need a sales person, and you need an idea that isn't shit.
Actually, the idea can be total shit if your sales guy is top notch, but you still have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror.
I was almost positive that Baghdad was the center, but Middle Eastern history is not my area of specialty, so I decided to avoid making a mistake. Thanks for your excellent clarification.
Once upon a time the Middle East was the center of learning the world over. Scholars of all religions and nationalities flocked there to exchange ideas and learn. This tolerance made the Middle East rich both economically and culturally. Then fundamentalist religion reared its ugly head, stifling all types of learning except for the Koran. Is there any chance of overcoming the fundamentalist shackles of intolerance and return the Middle East to its former glory of knowlege and economic vibrants?
A smarthost is basically a mail relay. You pay for that when your own ISP is in the slums. For Exim, the change to the configuration file consists of all of three lines. I don't know what is involved for other MTAs, but I'm sure it's equally as easy.
There is no getting out of a contract. There is no changing DNS. There is no looking for a new ISP.
Finding a smarthost might take more than 5 minutes, but if it takes you that long to modify your mail server configuration through the smarthost, then you are too stupid to run a mail server.
With the standard Shuttle boxes, you can leave out the floppy drive and stick in another hard drive. That's what my plan is with my SK41G I'm using as a server. It has a CD and hard drive, no floppy. When I need more drive space I have room to stick in another one. I use the network to transfer files. If, for some reason, that wasn't possible, I can use my USB drive (Laks watch).
2nd person singular:
2nd person plural: (Technically, it is saying, '..where the sun never shines')Go to ProZ.com for help with other languages.
This works in Exim 4.x. This goes in the acl_smtp_rcpt:
deny message = Fake Yahoo, so you must be spam.
log_message = Fake Yahoo
senders = *@yahoo.com
condition = ${if match {$sender_host_name}{\Nyahoo.com$\N}{no}{yes}}
I also have rules for AOL, MSN, and Hotmail. the only differences for each is the string to match on (and the deny/log messages).
AOL: mx.aol.com$
MSN: (hotmail|msn).com$
Hotmail: hotmail.com$
I recently re-evaluated my antispam blocks. Over the xmas holiday there was a very noticable increase in the amount of crap slipping though my defenses.
I ended up tweaking a few SpamAssassin rules to deal with what is popular (with the spammers) at the moment. This will need to be adjusted manually as the spammers change tactics. SpamAssassin is scanning everything after the DATA ACL while still connected so it can deny the message and not bounce it to some poor schmuck being joe-jobbed.
I also made a few changes to the blacklists. sbl-sbl.spamhaus.org is now my all time favorite blacklist. I also block all of China and Korea. I don't know anyone in those countries and they constitute a large percentage of all spam. Yes, I know the U.S. is the biggest source of spam, but I can't exactly blacklist my own country and expect to get email from friends and associates.
Another major change was to stop accepting email from dynamic ip addresses. This forced me to add a condition to allow one friend's server to send to me. I've since removed that exception as he's finally listened to reason and is routing his stuff through another mail server he administrates that is on a static ip address.
In the week since I've tweaked my settings a total of 3 or 4 spams have made through. Zero would be nice, but that isn't attainable without a serious risk of false positives, and probably not even then.
Finally, there's my personal blacklist. People or companies who annoy me too much end up in there. One was for an online magazine my wife signed up for that doesn't seem to have way of unsubscribing. After several futile attempts by my wife to get them to stop sending their stuff I stuck them into the blacklist.
On a few occassions I've blocked ip addresses at the firewall. Spammers using software that does't recognize the "bugger off" error code, NameProtect.com just because I don't want them snooping around on my system, and the occassional script kiddie.
I guess you can say it's a game. I keep score by comparing the number of "rejects" in my logs to the amount of spam getting through. I'm winning by a long shot (250 to 4 according to my current log).
I'm sure this will be a nomination, if not a winner for the prestigious Ig Nobel awards.
How many of you jumping on the global warming bandwagon don't believe the weather predictions on the local news?
How come you're willing to believe weather prediction of 50 to 100 years into the future?
When your business is in a small town, it would not take long for the predominent business to ruin the economy. When the entire world is your marketplace, losing the market of one town or city will not noticeably affect your bottom line. If enough cities are economically damaged, the company could see a reduction in sales, but that would be many years into the future. Heads of companies are hired and fired based on last quarter's earnings, not theoretical profits of five or ten years from now.
One of Adam Smith's beliefs was it is in a business's best interest to promote the betterment of the locale in which it resides. This was true at one time. If you had a symbiotic relationship with a small town, it was not a good idea "lay waste" to the financial well-being of the inhabitants if you desired to stay in business for long.
These days, however, large corporations have absolutely zero connection to any town or city. If a city can no longer afford their product or service because no one has jobs, so what? There are thousands of other towns and cities they can deal with.
Take IBM, for example (because their ad is currently at the top of this page). In some locations, they are a major employer. They recently announced they are closing some offices and shipping the jobs over-seas. If they are that town's major employer, the local economy will be devistated. It has a rippling effect. At first the luxury businesses will feel the pinch (movies, restaurants, etc). Later, staple businesses such as supermarkets will be hurting. This does not concern IBM in any way since they only answer to the stockholders - most of whom don't look at the long term effects of these decisions, just at today's stock price.
The knee-jerk reaction is to implement protectionist laws. This typically results in a trade war and everyone ends up just as bad off as before - if not worse.
Workers can accept lower salaries, but when you are competing against a cost-of-living measured in pennies a day, you simply can't drop your salary that far and still be able to pay rent and buy food.
Personally, I think the world is in a transitional period between local and global economies. As places like India gain more jobs, the competition will heat up, raising the salaries. Eventually it will reach some kind of equilibrium. How long this will take is way beyond my amateurish guesses. It could be a few years or it could be decades. Or I could be completely clueless since economics is not a field I know anything about.
And yes, I'm looking for work.
It wasn't the 'tit-for-tat' that has everyone upset. It was what the ass-hat Brazilian judge said when he signed the court order, "I consider the act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis."
Comparing the fingerprinting of people visiting our country to genocide is the height of stupidity. I'm surprised the Brazillian people allow someone so stupid to be a judge.
I didn't yell at anyone on the phone. The correspondence was entirely by email. My response was intended to let them know that their "rip off a loyal customer" attitude was not acceptable.
And yes, I bought a new drive and installed it myself. It cost about $120. I know I could have got it cheaper online, but I prefer buying from the local geek store (NCal Computers) because they provide excellent support. If there's a problem in the next three years I can take it to them and they will "make it right". Getting support from an online company can be a major pain in the ass.
Oh, the guys that work at NCal run Linux on their personal systems and actually know what the hell they're talking about. Ever try to discuss a technical issue with the idiot at CompUSA or Best Buy?
Off-topic: That damn HP laptop convinced me to never buy another HP product again. The drive died when the thing was 13 months old. The manufacturer warranty on it was 3 years, but HP only covered 1 year (it was OEMed). Their offered to fix it for $269 to $649 (depending on the work required). I got rather nasty with them when I got that quote. My exact words to them in my response was, "In other words, you do not honor manufacturer's warranties (which should be 3 years), plus you try to screw your customers by charging them $269 or more to replace a $100 (retail price) hard drive. How nice."
Another good link on this subject is Students for Academic Freedom
It's very useful for endurance riding. If you run your horse too hard you are required to rest the horse at stages, which can greatly affect your standings. You can be outright disqualified if you push your horse too hard. With the monitors, you can push your horse to its maximum speed possible without endangering its health.
For track racing, I wouldn't know. I'm not a fan of the track racing industry as there is too much abuse associated with it.
And yes, I do have my own saddle (obscure ST:TNG reference).
Wrong. It is as easy as that.
Don't make the mistake of thinking it's ok to let the government limit speech that some find offensive. Once those limits start, you won't be able to stop them.
One example springs to mind. In the U.K., "hate speech" is illegal. A politician said in one of his speeches that "we need better controls of immigration because too many undesirables are entering the country" (not an exact quote). He was charged with making a hate speech. Even though the charges were dropped, it still shows the danger of these types of laws.
The answer to bad speech is more speech.
I see some tofu eating ELF fan has moderated me down as flamebait. I didn't realize stating the obvious was flaming.
Just one message to the person who moderated my post: I hope you burn yourself the next time you set someone's home on fire, fucktard.
Eventually they will kill someone. They've been very lucky so far that no one has died in one of their fires or bombings. They are terrorist scum, despite what they state for public consumption.
Not for lack of trying. They are guilty of arson, burning down people's homes. They have planted bombs at companies. One of which was two blocks from where my wife works. A side not to the ELF fucks: If anyone in my family is ever injured by one of your acts of terrorism I will start shooting your members in the head with a gun. Oh, and I consider PETA to be in bed with you and will treat that terrorist support organization's members in the same fashion.