Like you, I've always wanted to build my own laptop but sadly, the parts are not usually available. Part of the reason is that a lot of parts are custom engineered.
Personally, I don't understand why there is no standardization of parts like regular PCs. You would think that standardizing would help create cheaper, upgradable laptops.
I recently needed to respond to an e-mail from a small company. When I replied, my e-mail was bounced back to me because Comcast.net's SMTP server was blackholed. (This happened even though I have my own domain name and only use Comcast's SMTP server as a smarthost.)
To get around this, I changed Sendmail to start sending out mail directly inside of using a smarthost. Now I get bounces from people with AOL addresses because AOL somehow knows that I am using a dynamic IP address to send mail from.
The only reason I am having any of these problems at all is because of spam. Spam is ruining the Internet and what's worse, I can see no way of fixing it that doesn't destroy privacy.
There is nothing in the title "Practical C++ Programming" that implies teaching will occur. If the title was "Learning To Program in C++", I might agree with you.
This has to be one of the most badly handled situations in business history. SCO started this fire and they have only themselves to blame for the heat.
The interview in the story is from an anti-spam service called knowspam, which works pretty much like Blue Bottle: if you are not on my white list, you have to authenticate yourself to send me an e-mail.
But what happens when two people, both using such a service, decide to send an e-mail for the first time? Couldn't such a setup create a endless loop of authentication requests?
I wasn't completely sure that I wanted to go back to Macs so in April of this year I bought the cheapest (new) desktop Mac I could get, a 700Mhz eMac with CD-RW for $740.00. After I received the unit, I added an airport card and maxed out the RAM to 1GB.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.2.6 and this system is amazingly stable and surprisingly fast. I am very happy with this setup, as I have access to both nice graphical Macintosh applications and cool Unix programs such as Bogofilter and Mutt.
I don't think that the parent post was off-topic. Indeed, looking at the link presented, I would say that it was on topic. Thanks to "unsinged int" for posting the link.
Bayesian Filters are cool but I don't see how anyone can thoughtfully choose between them. From my searching on Google, there has been no comparative accuracy testing of Bayesian Filters at all and I refuse to believe that they are all equally effective in identifying spam.
So with no information to guide their choice how can people effectively decide between Bogofilter, CRM114, DSpam, SpamBayes, POPFile, and other Bayesian Filters.
I wonder what this will mean should Novell start distributing Linux kernels? Surely Novell has the right to do so, which in turn would allow for legal using of the contested IP by anyone.
"IBM's suit revealed that Novell on June 12 effectively forbade SCO from terminating IBM's AIX license. SCO said it revoked the AIX license on June 16. Novell maintained the right to issue such instructions to SCO under the terms of the Unix sale, the suit said."
Am I the only one who takes this to mean that Novell can override actions regarding Unix IP and licensing?
"If that's more than you need, then great, although you're not missing anything by replacing a free application with shareware."
All the apps I use are freeware, except for GraphicConverter, which I already had when I finally got my camera. If I wanted to, I could replace it with Gimp.
As for organizing, it keep them in a single directory with several sub-directories. It's easy.
"As opposed to a single directory full of P07310003.jpg files, as would be the case for the 80% of users who don't know how to automatically script downloading and renaming of the photos from the camera?"
That's why EXIF-Renamer is such a nice program. It has selectable and customizable renaming settings. I have Image Capture call it while importing photos.
I would rather use a chain of smaller programs that can be individually replaced if need be. Depending on a single monolithic program can have problems (and advantages).
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Like you, I've always wanted to build my own laptop but sadly, the parts are not usually available. Part of the reason is that a lot of parts are custom engineered.
Personally, I don't understand why there is no standardization of parts like regular PCs. You would think that standardizing would help create cheaper, upgradable laptops.
" It takes years to build a resume of Linux qualifications, experience, certifications, etc"
Don't worry. Soon you'll be SCO qualified!
I would love to have my own mail server but wouldn't that require me to have my computer turned on and connected 24/7?
I recently needed to respond to an e-mail from a small company. When I replied, my e-mail was bounced back to me because Comcast.net's SMTP server was blackholed. (This happened even though I have my own domain name and only use Comcast's SMTP server as a smarthost.)
To get around this, I changed Sendmail to start sending out mail directly inside of using a smarthost. Now I get bounces from people with AOL addresses because AOL somehow knows that I am using a dynamic IP address to send mail from.
The only reason I am having any of these problems at all is because of spam. Spam is ruining the Internet and what's worse, I can see no way of fixing it that doesn't destroy privacy.
Thanks for letting me vent.
I have not heard of this program before. Thanks for the link.
Personally, I wish that he has included DSPAM and CRM114 in his testing. Otherwise, I thought that it was an enjoyable review.
There is nothing in the title "Practical C++ Programming" that implies teaching will occur. If the title was "Learning To Program in C++", I might agree with you.
This has to be one of the most badly handled situations in business history. SCO started this fire and they have only themselves to blame for the heat.
The interview in the story is from an anti-spam service called knowspam, which works pretty much like Blue Bottle: if you are not on my white list, you have to authenticate yourself to send me an e-mail.
But what happens when two people, both using such a service, decide to send an e-mail for the first time? Couldn't such a setup create a endless loop of authentication requests?
but they were illegally using software. Still, there is a lesson to learn from this if your company uses non-Free software.
That sounds like I have done.
I wasn't completely sure that I wanted to go back to Macs so in April of this year I bought the cheapest (new) desktop Mac I could get, a 700Mhz eMac with CD-RW for $740.00. After I received the unit, I added an airport card and maxed out the RAM to 1GB.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.2.6 and this system is amazingly stable and surprisingly fast. I am very happy with this setup, as I have access to both nice graphical Macintosh applications and cool Unix programs such as Bogofilter and Mutt.
Dude, that's been fixed for a while now. It was a problem with a cable, as reported a while ago on Macfixit.
I don't think that the parent post was off-topic. Indeed, looking at the link presented, I would say that it was on topic. Thanks to "unsinged int" for posting the link.
Bayesian Filters are cool but I don't see how anyone can thoughtfully choose between them. From my searching on Google, there has been no comparative accuracy testing of Bayesian Filters at all and I refuse to believe that they are all equally effective in identifying spam.
So with no information to guide their choice how can people effectively decide between Bogofilter, CRM114, DSpam, SpamBayes, POPFile, and other Bayesian Filters.
Does anyone know a way to use a USB key as logon authenticator? It would be cool to automatically login upon USB key insertition.
Or you can use DOS and load RAMDISK.SYS. :) I suppose on a Mac you could load Mac OS 9 and use a RAMDISK with virtual memory turned off.
"Now if only IBM sold Thinkpads without Windows.."
:)
I wish that they did. I have a NetBSD install CD just waiting for something to do.
I wonder what this will mean should Novell start distributing Linux kernels? Surely Novell has the right to do so, which in turn would allow for legal using of the contested IP by anyone.
The Cnet article says:
"IBM's suit revealed that Novell on June 12 effectively forbade SCO from terminating IBM's AIX license. SCO said it revoked the AIX license on June 16. Novell maintained the right to issue such instructions to SCO under the terms of the Unix sale, the suit said."
Am I the only one who takes this to mean that Novell can override actions regarding Unix IP and licensing?
Licensing fees, of course! (Luckily, SCO is trying to relieve us of our burdensome freedom.)
I think that your problem is that you are assigning good/evil values to a tool which is neither. Like any tool, it can be used for both.
Wow, so did they certified just the kernel? After all Linux was certified, not GNU/Linux. :)
"If that's more than you need, then great, although you're not missing anything by replacing a free application with shareware."
All the apps I use are freeware, except for GraphicConverter, which I already had when I finally got my camera. If I wanted to, I could replace it with Gimp.
As for organizing, it keep them in a single directory with several sub-directories. It's easy.
"As opposed to a single directory full of P07310003.jpg files, as would be the case for the 80% of users who don't know how to automatically script downloading and renaming of the photos from the camera?"
That's why EXIF-Renamer is such a nice program. It has selectable and customizable renaming settings. I have Image Capture call it while importing photos.
I would rather use a chain of smaller programs that can be individually replaced if need be. Depending on a single monolithic program can have problems (and advantages).