Yeah, knowledge of gibberish or PHONICS is a good way to remember it.
Take this one: 'fuquwimu' Sound it out. foo-coo-wee-moo. Simple, stupid, and easy to remember. But very hard to guess. Two clicks got that one. Keep trying and you get ones like horanori, xepufado, or wamodahu. (Adding a mnemonic to remember the first few chars, like using XP for 'xepufado' will help you remember it better.)
Yes. One reason Apple switched from plastic to Titanium (and later Aluminium) is because they were having trouble dissipating the heat from the G4. Plastic doesn't conduct heat that well, but metals do. (I bet most of the pots in your/your mom's kitchen have some aluminium in them. Mine have little aluminium discs on the bottom. Except for the ones that are cast iron.)
Towels, ehhh, I wouldn't do that. Nor pillows or blankets. I RTFM for my new Powerbook, and it specifically states that towels, pillows, blankets and other soft squishy things interfere with the intake ports on the bottom corners of the machine, causing it to possibly overheat. I would rather get a Podium, as someone linked to earlier. The swivel feature is great.
Maybe a USB powered fan system to supplement the built-in system during processor intensive stuff (where you're probably plugged in anyway).
I use a handy javascript I wrote (and ported to PHP, Perl, JSP, and ColdFusion) to generate pronounceable passwords for my work computer. They make me change it every month and I'm not allowed to use the same one for twelve months. This keeps me out of a rotation, and it's really easy to remember because it's pronouncable.
You have made a/an: () stupid () hormonal () rediculous () unconvincing () overused () evolutionary proposal to get into my pants this evening. This will fail because: () I have to wash my hair () I have a boyfriend () I have to download and compile a new distro () You are laid off () You smell bad () I am a lesbian Thank you for trying. I am: () flattered () disgusted () demoralized () now a lesbian
I don't think that dropping the mail server port is a good idea, but maybe throttling it on non-business accounts is a good idea. A lot of people who run their own mail server do it out of convenience. If they only send 100 emails a day, they're definitely not spamming. Closing it for someone sending over 100 per day would be good. If they want to have a bigger distribution, they can get a business account.
You're missing a point: They bundle an insecure mail client and an insecure email client with the OS, and make them difficult to uninstall. It would be very difficult to get every Linux user to have Evolution and Mozilla (which are secure) installed on their machine.
Mac OS X is a different case, but they have secure email and browser applications. (For the most part. The issues have pretty much been fixed by now.)
There is immense potential for profit here! Imagine if each trojan writer had to pay Microsoft 1/100th of a cent? They wouldn't ever have to release Longhorn!
Such is the power of unlimited email addresses from my hosting company: I can create one, send them the warning, and then delete it before they have a chance to spam me.
But if I put a disclaimer saying that this is for personal, non-profit use, they would have to obey it or be sued. I'm sure there are a lot of servers where you're not allowed to use resources for commercial purposes. I could put it in my TOS.
The Airport Express has way more storage than a Nomad. In that it has as much storage as your computer, which is, for all intents and purposes, infinite.
People need to know what this is and is not: It is not a hard-drive based device. It is not capable of only doing audio streams. It is not a powerline networking device. It is a wireless bridge. It is also a print server, and it can read streams from a computer and send them to a stereo using analog or digital methods.
Of the two, Salling clicker is the more wicked. It mutes iTunes when you get a phone call, and can be used with almost any app, even as a substitute mouse!
It's an access point for all those hotels with wired connections. Now you can get pr0n on the road in the bed without having an ethernet cord to get in your, um, "escort's" way!
I would add one feature: Multiple streams. Send the news radio or an audio book to the kitchen, and a playlist of lullabies to the nursery, from one computer.
Applescript and Salling Clicker will make this awesome. And a $130 bridge will help me to get better reception in the bedroom, which is very far from the base station and through a cinder-block wall and a chimney.
I had a desktop for a while. I just used regular audio cable to send audio to the stereo. Worked great for parties. Sucked when I looked at pr0n without remembering to disconnect it...
But this is awesome for Powerbook users because listening to teeny little speakers with a very low volume limit sucks. Ideally, this would stream from any audio program, but considering the variety of programming on iTunes (radio, audiobooks, etc), it's a good start.
I think I've figured it out. I will create an email address on my server. Then I will write a bookmarklet that I can hit when I'm moderating comments with over three links to send the offending web site an email detailing the fact that I will consider any more spam posts from their site or their business associates harassment and prosecute accordingly. I'll check this account weekly to see if they get the hint. If not, they will have a lawsuit on their hands.
It's a shame that people can't just do the right thing. I guess that's why I got cussed out by some asshole Roto Rooter guy I parked behind who couldn't get out.
Thanks! I really hadn't thought about who I'd report the IPs to. Maybe I coudl sue them or something, maybe for any profits derived from posting to my page without permission...
No, I blame opportunistic bastards who can't see that it's okay to not profit from something. *Thinks about his sledding hill that was destroyed by an upscale minimall.*
I'm using Wordpress, and before that b2. It's only started in the past month, too.
Unfortunately, my spam comments fill in the email fields, so I can't turn of anonymous comments. Is there any way for me to get the IP addresses of spam comments and forward this to the authorities?
Google needs to do something about this. I had to turn off comments on my blog because all I was getting was spam. Two or three a day that I had to go in and delete. I have to now find a system that will keep the bots out.
What happened to the nice internet we had in 1996?
He could release it worldwide and that would still be true. Japan is the one of the first places where it's the next day. So if he says "By 12:00AM Local time, you can buy from iTMS," Japan is still one of the first major countries that can do it. This might be a good way of distributing the demand.
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Ugh...
Take this one: 'fuquwimu' Sound it out. foo-coo-wee-moo. Simple, stupid, and easy to remember. But very hard to guess. Two clicks got that one. Keep trying and you get ones like horanori, xepufado, or wamodahu. (Adding a mnemonic to remember the first few chars, like using XP for 'xepufado' will help you remember it better.)
Yes. One reason Apple switched from plastic to Titanium (and later Aluminium) is because they were having trouble dissipating the heat from the G4. Plastic doesn't conduct heat that well, but metals do. (I bet most of the pots in your/your mom's kitchen have some aluminium in them. Mine have little aluminium discs on the bottom. Except for the ones that are cast iron.)
Maybe a USB powered fan system to supplement the built-in system during processor intensive stuff (where you're probably plugged in anyway).
I use a handy javascript I wrote (and ported to PHP, Perl, JSP, and ColdFusion) to generate pronounceable passwords for my work computer. They make me change it every month and I'm not allowed to use the same one for twelve months. This keeps me out of a rotation, and it's really easy to remember because it's pronouncable.
Run for the hills! There's no guarantee of security! Everyone stop using your computers right now!
Automated Rejection System:
:
You have made a/an
() stupid
() hormonal
() rediculous
() unconvincing
() overused
() evolutionary
proposal to get into my pants this evening. This will fail because:
() I have to wash my hair
() I have a boyfriend
() I have to download and compile a new distro
() You are laid off
() You smell bad
() I am a lesbian
Thank you for trying. I am:
() flattered
() disgusted
() demoralized
() now a lesbian
I don't think that dropping the mail server port is a good idea, but maybe throttling it on non-business accounts is a good idea. A lot of people who run their own mail server do it out of convenience. If they only send 100 emails a day, they're definitely not spamming. Closing it for someone sending over 100 per day would be good. If they want to have a bigger distribution, they can get a business account.
Mac OS X is a different case, but they have secure email and browser applications. (For the most part. The issues have pretty much been fixed by now.)
There is immense potential for profit here! Imagine if each trojan writer had to pay Microsoft 1/100th of a cent? They wouldn't ever have to release Longhorn!
Such is the power of unlimited email addresses from my hosting company: I can create one, send them the warning, and then delete it before they have a chance to spam me.
But if I put a disclaimer saying that this is for personal, non-profit use, they would have to obey it or be sued. I'm sure there are a lot of servers where you're not allowed to use resources for commercial purposes. I could put it in my TOS.
People need to know what this is and is not: It is not a hard-drive based device. It is not capable of only doing audio streams. It is not a powerline networking device. It is a wireless bridge. It is also a print server, and it can read streams from a computer and send them to a stereo using analog or digital methods.
/me has a Bluetooth phone for remote connections.
Keyspan remote
Of the two, Salling clicker is the more wicked. It mutes iTunes when you get a phone call, and can be used with almost any app, even as a substitute mouse!
It's an access point for all those hotels with wired connections. Now you can get pr0n on the road in the bed without having an ethernet cord to get in your, um, "escort's" way!
Applescript and Salling Clicker will make this awesome. And a $130 bridge will help me to get better reception in the bedroom, which is very far from the base station and through a cinder-block wall and a chimney.
This thing is amazing... just amazing.
But this is awesome for Powerbook users because listening to teeny little speakers with a very low volume limit sucks. Ideally, this would stream from any audio program, but considering the variety of programming on iTunes (radio, audiobooks, etc), it's a good start.
It's a shame that people can't just do the right thing. I guess that's why I got cussed out by some asshole Roto Rooter guy I parked behind who couldn't get out.
Thanks! I really hadn't thought about who I'd report the IPs to. Maybe I coudl sue them or something, maybe for any profits derived from posting to my page without permission...
No, I blame opportunistic bastards who can't see that it's okay to not profit from something. *Thinks about his sledding hill that was destroyed by an upscale minimall.*
Unfortunately, my spam comments fill in the email fields, so I can't turn of anonymous comments. Is there any way for me to get the IP addresses of spam comments and forward this to the authorities?
What happened to the nice internet we had in 1996?
He could release it worldwide and that would still be true. Japan is the one of the first places where it's the next day. So if he says "By 12:00AM Local time, you can buy from iTMS," Japan is still one of the first major countries that can do it. This might be a good way of distributing the demand.
I just never get to use it...