Wrong. But you're a troll, so you already know you're lying.
Who pissed in your cheerios?
As pointed out by the person who responded before you, I was incorrect in that SPEWS is still alive--they just closed the Osirusoft DNSBL. I was neither trolling, not purposefully providing bad information. That my facts were slightly incorrect does NOT change the results of what happened.
You also know that most admins are well aware that using blacklists will cause some false positives, where legitimate mail gets blocked.
I'm sorry, but if you were relying on Osirusoft, you got more than SOME false positives--more like ALL false positives until you figured out what was wrong and stopped using that particular block list.
Assholes like you want everyone to do everything their way, no matter the cost
I could care less how anybody else handles their own mail. I'm of the opinion that anyone who uses blocklists directly is playing with fire, and is GOING to get burned--if they haven't already--and stated such. That doesn't make me some authoritarian (it's not like I showed up in your datacenter with a shotgun and demanded you stop using blocklists) asshole--that makes me pragmatic.
As far as your "no matter the cost" comment, I work for a fairly small company, with a very small budget, and I hate to think about what the direct and indirect costs of spam are. I do whatever I can to block it (at least 70% of what hits my domain is spam, FYI) and would cheerfully hang the people sending us this trash. That does not mean I'm going to stop accepting potentially legitimate email (which might be time critical, resulting in direct losses or lost business for my company) from somebody just because they happen to be in the same netblock as Ralsky and his ilk.
By the way, by the tone of your post (who's trolling now?) I'm guessing you're one of those folks that lets their personal politics drive how they do their job?
When I went to the University of South Carolina in 1991 the tuition was around $1200.00 per semester, rumor has it that it's over $3000.00 per semester now.
It never ceases to amaze me that someone can be sitting in front of a computer and say something like "rumor has it" and just pull some number out of their ass and throw it on out there.
This is a tough hobby to get into (well, sort of) because all the rulebooks cost between 40 and 50 US dollars. If you buy all three (PH, MM, DMG) then you're looking at a net outlay of between $120 and $150.
Where the hell do you shop?
The COVER PRICES on all three of the books you mentioned are all $29.95 (which means you can do lots better than this by shopping around) and WotC will happily sell you a nice slipcovered trilogy of all three books for $89.95.
Yup, it's pricey when you decide you have to own every damn book in the collection--but you don't NEED to spend that kind of money. The typical gaming group of 4-8 people really only needs one MM and DMG, and maybe 1 PHB for every player if everyone has the "I need my own" mentality, with 2-3 being a good number otherwise.
Breaking the math on that down, we get $150 (30 + 30 + 90) total outlay, or $25 per group member assuming 6 people in the group. NOT "$120-$150" each "just to break into the hobby."
Ie. if a 1.2.3.4 host contacts your mailserver and wants to give you something, accept it only if 1.2.3.4 is listed as an MX for a domain.
And what if I have a particularly large domain, and I split my incoming and outgoing email across different servers, and don't need or want an MX record for those servers, because some asshat is going to use that MX record in order to send spam to that server, needlessly increasing the load, which is what I was trying to avoid in the first place?
Those who blindly trust a blocklist will get burned eventually. Don't just trust some stranger you meet on the Internet to do your work for you... they will eventually screw up when you're not looking.
Eventually?
Last year, the dipshit that ran SPEWS decided he didn't want to play anymore and closed up shop. His method of announcing this was to blacklist the world!
That right there is the reason that anyone administering mail servers for a business CANNOT use blacklists directly (and I'm even squeamish these days about allowing spamassassin to factor it into its weighted scoring, and have reduced the scored for blacklists as a result) and anyone who thinks otherwise should stop letting their politics drive how they do the job their company pays them to.
Having not read any Harry Potter, I may well be missing something obvious, but what is so 'Harry-Potter--esque' about 'moving images and colour'? Why not just say "can handle moving images and colour"? I'm pretty certain we had them before Harry Potter came along.
Photograps and paintings in the Harry Potter universe are not static--they're self-animated with objects and people moving around, able to talk and litteralyl with a mind of their own. I have to imagine that is what the author is referring to, though I agree it's a stupid point--while you may be able to put video into your electronic "picture frame" it will still be the same video clip everytime...
How about all the subtle ways that better technology affects lives? With all that e-mail capacity, maybe a few Israeli students won't have to take the crosstown bus to meet and swap files.
Israeli buses, of course, are notorious targets for "suicide" (homicide) bombers. Students form a disproportionately large number of the bombers' victims. So maybe a life or two will be spared thanks to this service. Am I stretching? Possibly. But it's food for thought, nonetheless.
Yep, thank god for huge email attachments. I, too, would walk the streets and brave suicidal terrorists if all I had to work with was ftp, http, or the other 10,000 methods already out there for transfering files...
Anyone know a good challenge/response program that works with Exchange? (And before you suggest a free alternative, he refuses to migrate, so I have to work with what he wants.)
So don't migrate. Put a mail gateway out there in front of the Exchange box running Postfix, Spamassassin, a good virus scanner, and whatever other functionality you're wanting (LDAP scrubbing, maybe?) and setup a transport map to deliver VALID mail to the Exchange box.
Your CEO gets to both keep Exchange and have his spam reduced drastically, YOU get your FOSS alternative and get to look good for implementing this for the cost of the hardware, and you get a nice security bonus by no longer allowing direct connections to that Exchange server by untrusted systems. It's win-win all around (except, of course, for the spammers...)
Correct, there aren't any advantages, only disadvantages. (More expensive, proprietary hardware, unproven etc.)
And, apparently, orders of magnitude faster.
Personally, I'd put that rather firmly into the advantage column, and for a number of reasons. You could either render your movie with a smaller farm (always a plus) or you could render even more complex scenes in the same time period--which is probably what most people would use this technology for. On the commentary track of Monsters Inc, the guys from Pixar note that despite having MUCH faster hardware (and alot more of it) the average time to render a single frame of Monsters Inc was just as long as a single frame of Toy Story. Why? Because the frames were FAR more complex.
I think this is a Good Thing(tm) at least for the people who have the imagination to use it.
On this machine Microsoft requires either two licenses for Windows or one Windows license and a Terminal Server Client Access license.
I don't believe it's quite that simple. Windows XP licensing allows one remote desktop user, no terminal services CAL required. Undoubtedly, you're correct about Office (I'm sure there's a citrix/similar clause in the license somewhere that covers this) but it's worth noting that for something like Exchange, you would not necessarily require 2 CALs as long as you bought device CALs instead of user CALs.
Gah, what a mess. No problems like this in the FOSS world, thank god.:)
There have been judgements that have caused mass delusions within the legal profession that corporations have 'rights', but no changes have been made to the constitution to grant same 'rights' to corporations as those of citizens.
What, you don't really believe that you have to CHANGE the constitution in order to change its meaning, do you?
For an example of what I am hinting at, please see my sig.
. Electricity is in short supply in some places, which means that the water plant will require a coal, nuclear, gas-fired, or hydro plant to contribute part of its output to desalienate the water.
Considering that you're probably going to boil the water to convert it to steam, then let it condense as fresh water, one would imagine this dovetailing nicely with a (non-nuc) power plant.
Admittedly, this wouldn't be a very efficent power plant since they genereally reuse the (now hot) water after it condenses, but for areas that lack both power AND water, it's probably a good tradeoff...
Would it change the discussion If we changed "Email" to "mail" and made the same statements?
It shouldn't. A better example would be to change "Email" to "post card" and then see how that affects the discussion.
Anyone with an "expectation of privacy" when using email is a delusional fool. The sysadmin of every system your email passes through is capable of reading it, archiving it, folding, spindling, and mutilating it, all without your knowledge.
Since the military is not allowed to engage in law enforcement (that pesky Constitution and all) we simply had a Coast Guard team (they're Dept of Transportation and not Defense, so they *can* do law enforcement) that took care of the actual boarding of vessles and law enforcement.
I believe you're mistaken here. The Coast Guard has the statutory power to board any vessel in US waters. This (and the law enforcement powers they have) has nothing to do with what department of the executive branch they report to--there is no "Department of Defense" or "Department of Transportation" defined anywhere in the constitution.
Certain groups are trying to convince Americans that they are paying horribly high taxes
Consider that a 25% tax rate means that you work the months of January-March entirely for the government. A 33% tax rate means you're working April, too.
I'm sorry, but to me that is a "horribly high" tax rate. If you want to live in a Socialist country, that's cool. Just don't make ME live in one too.
Seriously, I used to check my email at Gateway stores all the time. Now it's going to be hard to find a place. Try checking your email at a Radio Shack to see what I mean.
Try a local Adelphia or Comcast or whatever office. They usually have a net connected PC showcasing their cable internet product, and don't get bitchy when you "try it out."
The one that quoted CmdrTaco--at least, it was once you turned on the Microsoft Office revision tracking.
__INTERNET_GEEK_GUY__ is both a guy and an uber-guy, as co-founder of the online site Slashdot, a news and discussion site popular with computer devotees. Mr. __GEEK_LAST_NAME__, who admits to putting much of the rest of his life on hold when a "really good game" comes out, said that many of his readers take pride in denouncing television.
"The New York Times kicks ass and^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPeople like to know that they are rising above," he said. Along with compelling storytelling, he said, many games provide a social circle, which adds "the water-cooler factor" in real time
Companies don't hire mechanical engineers to build them special-purpose cogs for the copying machine that will make it produce copies 20% faster. They won't hire programmers, either.
I think that's a bad comparison. Almost every company that has more than a couple of dozen employees has at least one or two pieces of software that they've either developed in house, or contracted out.
Case in point, the company I work for--and we're NOT a large company, having maybe 500 employees worldwide--has developed a custom CAD/design app for use by our engineers, and our customers. We DO hire programmers, and we use those programmers for more than maintaining the above app--including writing patches for and rebuilding open source applications when needed.
Our German site (where the bulk of our employees are) doesn't have a single server running an MS product. Everything is SuSE (well, one server running RH8) except the desktops, and I believe there are plans in the works to move large numbers of those desktops to Linux over the next few years, now that our ERP vendor supports Linux clients and integrates with OpenOffice.
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It should be noted that the above post is ripped from the previous article, and was originally posted by n1ywb. The original post can be read here.
Parent is a karma whore.
Wrong. But you're a troll, so you already know you're lying.
Who pissed in your cheerios?
As pointed out by the person who responded before you, I was incorrect in that SPEWS is still alive--they just closed the Osirusoft DNSBL. I was neither trolling, not purposefully providing bad information. That my facts were slightly incorrect does NOT change the results of what happened.
You also know that most admins are well aware that using blacklists will cause some false positives, where legitimate mail gets blocked.
I'm sorry, but if you were relying on Osirusoft, you got more than SOME false positives--more like ALL false positives until you figured out what was wrong and stopped using that particular block list.
Assholes like you want everyone to do everything their way, no matter the cost
I could care less how anybody else handles their own mail. I'm of the opinion that anyone who uses blocklists directly is playing with fire, and is GOING to get burned--if they haven't already--and stated such. That doesn't make me some authoritarian (it's not like I showed up in your datacenter with a shotgun and demanded you stop using blocklists) asshole--that makes me pragmatic.
As far as your "no matter the cost" comment, I work for a fairly small company, with a very small budget, and I hate to think about what the direct and indirect costs of spam are. I do whatever I can to block it (at least 70% of what hits my domain is spam, FYI) and would cheerfully hang the people sending us this trash. That does not mean I'm going to stop accepting potentially legitimate email (which might be time critical, resulting in direct losses or lost business for my company) from somebody just because they happen to be in the same netblock as Ralsky and his ilk.
By the way, by the tone of your post (who's trolling now?) I'm guessing you're one of those folks that lets their personal politics drive how they do their job?
When I went to the University of South Carolina in 1991 the tuition was around $1200.00 per semester, rumor has it that it's over $3000.00 per semester now.
It never ceases to amaze me that someone can be sitting in front of a computer and say something like "rumor has it" and just pull some number out of their ass and throw it on out there.
In fact (i.e. this isn't a rumor) resident tuition at the University of South Carolina for the 2003-2004 academic year is $2,774.00.
Isn't technology wonderful?
This is a tough hobby to get into (well, sort of) because all the rulebooks cost between 40 and 50 US dollars. If you buy all three (PH, MM, DMG) then you're looking at a net outlay of between $120 and $150.
Where the hell do you shop?
The COVER PRICES on all three of the books you mentioned are all $29.95 (which means you can do lots better than this by shopping around) and WotC will happily sell you a nice slipcovered trilogy of all three books for $89.95.
Yup, it's pricey when you decide you have to own every damn book in the collection--but you don't NEED to spend that kind of money. The typical gaming group of 4-8 people really only needs one MM and DMG, and maybe 1 PHB for every player if everyone has the "I need my own" mentality, with 2-3 being a good number otherwise.
Breaking the math on that down, we get $150 (30 + 30 + 90) total outlay, or $25 per group member assuming 6 people in the group. NOT "$120-$150" each "just to break into the hobby."
Ie. if a 1.2.3.4 host contacts your mailserver and wants to give you something, accept it only if 1.2.3.4 is listed as an MX for a domain.
And what if I have a particularly large domain, and I split my incoming and outgoing email across different servers, and don't need or want an MX record for those servers, because some asshat is going to use that MX record in order to send spam to that server, needlessly increasing the load, which is what I was trying to avoid in the first place?
Those who blindly trust a blocklist will get burned eventually. Don't just trust some stranger you meet on the Internet to do your work for you... they will eventually screw up when you're not looking.
Eventually?
Last year, the dipshit that ran SPEWS decided he didn't want to play anymore and closed up shop. His method of announcing this was to blacklist the world!
That right there is the reason that anyone administering mail servers for a business CANNOT use blacklists directly (and I'm even squeamish these days about allowing spamassassin to factor it into its weighted scoring, and have reduced the scored for blacklists as a result) and anyone who thinks otherwise should stop letting their politics drive how they do the job their company pays them to.
Having not read any Harry Potter, I may well be missing something obvious, but what is so 'Harry-Potter--esque' about 'moving images and colour'? Why not just say "can handle moving images and colour"? I'm pretty certain we had them before Harry Potter came along.
Photograps and paintings in the Harry Potter universe are not static--they're self-animated with objects and people moving around, able to talk and litteralyl with a mind of their own. I have to imagine that is what the author is referring to, though I agree it's a stupid point--while you may be able to put video into your electronic "picture frame" it will still be the same video clip everytime...
Truth be told, I'm becoming a little disenfranchised with Star Trek lately
I think you mean Disenchanted... that is, unless you're talking about a new series called "Star Trek: The Diebold Generation" or something...
It wasn't all that long ago it would cost several times more to max our your RAM than it did to purchase the computer
That's still true, at least in the server world...
How about all the subtle ways that better technology affects lives? With all that e-mail capacity, maybe a few Israeli students won't have to take the crosstown bus to meet and swap files.
Israeli buses, of course, are notorious targets for "suicide" (homicide) bombers. Students form a disproportionately large number of the bombers' victims. So maybe a life or two will be spared thanks to this service. Am I stretching? Possibly. But it's food for thought, nonetheless.
Yep, thank god for huge email attachments. I, too, would walk the streets and brave suicidal terrorists if all I had to work with was ftp, http, or the other 10,000 methods already out there for transfering files...
Anyone know a good challenge/response program that works with Exchange? (And before you suggest a free alternative, he refuses to migrate, so I have to work with what he wants.)
So don't migrate. Put a mail gateway out there in front of the Exchange box running Postfix, Spamassassin, a good virus scanner, and whatever other functionality you're wanting (LDAP scrubbing, maybe?) and setup a transport map to deliver VALID mail to the Exchange box.
Your CEO gets to both keep Exchange and have his spam reduced drastically, YOU get your FOSS alternative and get to look good for implementing this for the cost of the hardware, and you get a nice security bonus by no longer allowing direct connections to that Exchange server by untrusted systems. It's win-win all around (except, of course, for the spammers...)
Correct, there aren't any advantages, only disadvantages. (More expensive, proprietary hardware, unproven etc.)
And, apparently, orders of magnitude faster.
Personally, I'd put that rather firmly into the advantage column, and for a number of reasons. You could either render your movie with a smaller farm (always a plus) or you could render even more complex scenes in the same time period--which is probably what most people would use this technology for. On the commentary track of Monsters Inc, the guys from Pixar note that despite having MUCH faster hardware (and alot more of it) the average time to render a single frame of Monsters Inc was just as long as a single frame of Toy Story. Why? Because the frames were FAR more complex.
I think this is a Good Thing(tm) at least for the people who have the imagination to use it.
On this machine Microsoft requires either two licenses for Windows or one Windows license and a Terminal Server Client Access license.
:)
I don't believe it's quite that simple. Windows XP licensing allows one remote desktop user, no terminal services CAL required. Undoubtedly, you're correct about Office (I'm sure there's a citrix/similar clause in the license somewhere that covers this) but it's worth noting that for something like Exchange, you would not necessarily require 2 CALs as long as you bought device CALs instead of user CALs.
Gah, what a mess. No problems like this in the FOSS world, thank god.
There have been judgements that have caused mass delusions within the legal profession that corporations have 'rights', but no changes have been made to the constitution to grant same 'rights' to corporations as those of citizens.
What, you don't really believe that you have to CHANGE the constitution in order to change its meaning, do you?
For an example of what I am hinting at, please see my sig.
First, Federal. The Corps of Engineers handles 404 permits
:)
Aw, crap, you mean I need to get the Corps of Engineers to check for broken links in order to get my website design approved?
. Electricity is in short supply in some places, which means that the water plant will require a coal, nuclear, gas-fired, or hydro plant to contribute part of its output to desalienate the water.
Considering that you're probably going to boil the water to convert it to steam, then let it condense as fresh water, one would imagine this dovetailing nicely with a (non-nuc) power plant.
Admittedly, this wouldn't be a very efficent power plant since they genereally reuse the (now hot) water after it condenses, but for areas that lack both power AND water, it's probably a good tradeoff...
Would it change the discussion If we changed "Email" to "mail" and made the same statements?
It shouldn't. A better example would be to change "Email" to "post card" and then see how that affects the discussion.
Anyone with an "expectation of privacy" when using email is a delusional fool. The sysadmin of every system your email passes through is capable of reading it, archiving it, folding, spindling, and mutilating it, all without your knowledge.
Since the military is not allowed to engage in law enforcement (that pesky Constitution and all) we simply had a Coast Guard team (they're Dept of Transportation and not Defense, so they *can* do law enforcement) that took care of the actual boarding of vessles and law enforcement.
I believe you're mistaken here. The Coast Guard has the statutory power to board any vessel in US waters. This (and the law enforcement powers they have) has nothing to do with what department of the executive branch they report to--there is no "Department of Defense" or "Department of Transportation" defined anywhere in the constitution.
whether we like it or not, we have gone from a majority government (democracy) to a republic
I'd love to know when we went from a democracy to a republic? The United States has been a republic since 1789.
Certain groups are trying to convince Americans that they are paying horribly high taxes
Consider that a 25% tax rate means that you work the months of January-March entirely for the government. A 33% tax rate means you're working April, too.
I'm sorry, but to me that is a "horribly high" tax rate. If you want to live in a Socialist country, that's cool. Just don't make ME live in one too.
Seriously, I used to check my email at Gateway stores all the time. Now it's going to be hard to find a place. Try checking your email at a Radio Shack to see what I mean.
Try a local Adelphia or Comcast or whatever office. They usually have a net connected PC showcasing their cable internet product, and don't get bitchy when you "try it out."
The one that quoted CmdrTaco--at least, it was once you turned on the Microsoft Office revision tracking.
^ H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPeople like to know that they are rising above," he said. Along with compelling storytelling, he said, many games provide a social circle, which adds "the water-cooler factor" in real time
__INTERNET_GEEK_GUY__ is both a guy and an uber-guy, as co-founder of the online site Slashdot, a news and discussion site popular with computer devotees. Mr. __GEEK_LAST_NAME__, who admits to putting much of the rest of his life on hold when a "really good game" comes out, said that many of his readers take pride in denouncing television.
"The New York Times kicks ass and^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
That is downright hysterical. Your "Fans" list now has a new entry.
Companies don't hire mechanical engineers to build them special-purpose cogs for the copying machine that will make it produce copies 20% faster. They won't hire programmers, either.
I think that's a bad comparison. Almost every company that has more than a couple of dozen employees has at least one or two pieces of software that they've either developed in house, or contracted out.
Case in point, the company I work for--and we're NOT a large company, having maybe 500 employees worldwide--has developed a custom CAD/design app for use by our engineers, and our customers. We DO hire programmers, and we use those programmers for more than maintaining the above app--including writing patches for and rebuilding open source applications when needed.
Our German site (where the bulk of our employees are) doesn't have a single server running an MS product. Everything is SuSE (well, one server running RH8) except the desktops, and I believe there are plans in the works to move large numbers of those desktops to Linux over the next few years, now that our ERP vendor supports Linux clients and integrates with OpenOffice.
That's udderly ridiculous.
I think you're just milking it for all it's worth.