right tool is a very appropriate term. That's about that FreeBSD is. A frikkin' tool. I haven't seen a legitimate commerical operation using FreeBSD for production servers in all my years as in IT. I think I saw more OS/2 and Banyan servers than FreeBSD boxes!
actually use *BSD as a conscious decision and remain satisfied using it? Just curious, because I don't see too many complimentary or constructive posts on the subject of a new release from the (cadaverous) FreeBSD team. Just wondering. Microsoft subjects get a warmer response, if that indicates anything.
I personally enjoyed OpenVMS more than my experiences using FreeBSD. The little devil mascot should be replaced with a three thousand year old mummy...
I tell you, *BSD is really dying. Soon they will join forces with a networking company to pull each other down into the tarpits too. I can see it down *BSD and Banyan. Building a better tomorrow...today.
Actually on their part I would call that a stopgap, kneejerk reaction since their mail software was so vulnerable. You don't have to edit the registry each time to roll such workarounds out to multiple users, however.
You can download an installer that creates a public folder called "Outlook Security Settings." Then you can create policies allowing many things like receiving certain file attachments, synching with the Outlook Address Book by third party apps, etc.
It's funny how that "news for nerds" would lead one to think that it would be factual, objective, scientific, technical, etc. Maybe not, as this is a prime example of more subjective FUD drivel.
MSN Messenger is the IM app that Micro$loth has. Windows Messenger is a service that runs as part of the NT/2000 branch OS. It pops up NET SEND messages. Winpopup.exe is the 9x branch OS equivalent. You are talking about something totally different. Nice kneejerk, conspiracy-like reaction though.
If it takes hours or days for an IT Support staffer to figure out someone disabled the Windows Messenger service these users have bigger problems than they think. Of course we are talking about Windoze support guys after all. They are just about one rung in the intelligence ladder above AOL users!
Actually if I was an idiot and continued to keep my back door unlocked when burglaries were going on all around me I don't think I would care. As a matter for fact I would probably be thankful. Disabling a service that shouldn't have been enabled in the first place. BIg frikkin' deal. Everyone gets on their high horse about privacy, Oliver Stone-esquse governmental/corporate invasiveness, etc. that just common sense goes down the pooper...
When I see people sign up for AOL I feel the way I do when I see fat people line up outside the Dairy Queen pickup window. Why, people, why? You don't need to add to your own miseries.
The typical AOL user is vulnerable no matter which angle you take. It's like if a new ISP service was started by the "...For Dummies" company. As a user you'd have a big Kick Me sign on your back.
Actually we import over 50% of our oil from other countries. See this report for details. That is a dependence that has economic and political consequences. Relying on other countries for resources isn't a thing to be proud of. But due to the very fabric of our industrialized society there's little way around it. Everything from textiles to plastics to heating to transportation relies on it. Domestic production of oil is hampered by a number of things so we are stuck.
I'm not saying reliance on oil is the best situation to be in, but unless someone reinvents lots of associated goods/services/processes I don't see a lot changing.
The slant of the evil oil tyranny was what mainly rubbed me the wrong way with this piece...
Although, I'm sure this post will get modded down as well since I have my own mind, here it is...
Here's an article about the shrinkinghole in the ozone layer. Sure enough in about 60 years the hole should close up according to NASA scientists. Most of the data was gathered in the early 1990's by NASA's ATLAS missions. Maybe read (and think) for yourselves rather than blindly accept vague FUD articles posted by hippies who flunked out of college because of too many hits from the skull bong. Maybe read articles based on scientific study...
This post was modded "Flamebait?" Is this because the majority of moderators are enviornmental hippies? Guess so. As for me, I'm glad to see *some* people on here don't jump on the Greenpeace bandwagon and start sinking tanker ships. The cow comment is 100% true. Also true is that the hole in the ozone layer has always been present and is predicted by NASA scientists to actually start closing over the next few hundred years. Even with all of these evil fossil fuels being consumed. The horror! The humanity!!
About 10 years ago there was a shuttle mission intended to study the growing hole in the ozone. the mission came back with results directly contradicting what all of the tree hugging drones were crying about. If I find an URL regarding this I'll post it. What was funny is the tree hugging masses were all crowing about the mission but when the shuttle came back the story was dropped like it was hot!
Good one but a little inaccurate. Actually slavery helped us at the end of ours days as an agricultural society. Slaves picked cotton and performed other cultivar tasks. Slavery was wrong and I can't see many modern day people who could take issue with that.
What I take issue with is what this topic is doing on/. since it has nothing to do with the IT world. Also, while we're splitting hairs, those Jesus-freak flower children out there who hate the evils of oil should swear off everything from Olean to polyester. Perhaps look up what a myriad of products we all use every day are derived from petroleum-based processing. Most ignoramuses though just equate it with their hippie ass VW busses, Geo Metros, and Hondas. Shows the depth of perception.
What is this article doing on/. anyway? This is such hippie crap I feel like putting on my Birkenstocks, donning my tie dye, and walking down the Pearl Street pedestrian mall in Boulder, CO. All the while cramming discarded cigarette filters in my back pocket. Jeeeeezus!
The tyranny of oil? WTF?! If it wasn't for such dinosaur remnants we wouldn't have progressed into an industrialized society for Chrissakes. Come on. The evil of industrialized countries relying on fossil fuels. Countries that have no other natural resources (and who cannot cultivate food because they live in fscking sand) negotiating profits with their native oil supply. Big deal.
It would be great if other alternative energy sources were mainstream. Having choices is great, and as a member of a free society I can appreciate that. But I can spare the granola shit.
I personally have downloaded and shared music files so I'm no saint, but don't the RIAA and the MPAA have the law behind them? If indeed copyrighted works can't be copied and distributed beyond the original (i.e. legitimate) owner then why is their school campaign labelled propaganda? To me the idea of going into schools reeks of $cientology and Micro$loth and it's the wrong forum, but I am starting to tire of the villifying of the RIAA and MPAA if they are indeed protecting their legal rights.
Granted the school visits and suing of small-fish individuals (like the 12 y.o. girl from the 'jects) are out of hand, but OTOH I think the the slanted/. approach of making these industry groups look like wackos is out of hand too. If you were a musician who had worked your way out of the gutter you'd want to be paid your fair share. The excuse that "It's all about freedom, baby, (Austin Powers, 1966)" doesn't hold water. Neither does the excuse that the artists have enough money already. Neither does the excuse that the **AA is only representing their own interests and the artists aren't getting screwed.
This isn't a troll, honest. But if copyright violation, even if a white collar/gray area crime, is going on doesn't that make it wrong?
True. A lot of the more persistent IP's I see as senders trace back to mail servers not knowing they have open proxy and socks services. But at least these folks will hopefully patch their open services to help those instances. It is a losing battle, agreed.
It's funny that for $50 you can download programs that scan the Internet for such open services and then automate sending millions of messges a day through them. An ex-coworker of mine now is the mail server admin for a "e-mail marketing" company. He says to tools and utilities are next to nothing to purchase and implement. Seeing the cost of sending tons of messages only involves dedicated telco bandwidth, some manhours, and software programs no wonder companies advertise this way rather than expensive bulk mail or print advertising!
Same here. I recently installed Spambayes, which is a freeware spam filtering add-on for mail clients. Works both on Outlook clients and the Linux platform. It filters out 99.9% of the spam I get. Really good for freeware.
The mail header should show a mail server IP address as the sender. This IP address can be looked up in a reverse DNS query to obtain the domain name, then the domain name owner can be looked up in a WHOIS query. Both queries can be done many places on the Internet. If the party isn't the intentional spammer it's likely someone running a mail server unknowingly with an open socks or proxy service on it.
There are fans that attach on the top of your car window and are solar powered. You barely crack the window and away you go. Not exactly what you were talking about, but a step in the right direction.
Since when are they cheaper to use? I've never heard anyone say that in my life. And that's going back to 1982, when they were pitted against the Radio Shack TRS-80's. They always have been more expensive hardware-wise as well as software-wise. So that defense you are referring to is already pretty dented...
No doubt. PPC cannot even connect through Microsoft's Proxy Server. What a joke. They're all Micro$loth pieces but they're incompatible. At least the PPC garbage is TwC (Trustworthy Computing) compliant!
Agreed. I too am impressed with LG. My VX-10 isn't as loaded as your model but it really has helped keep me productive and accessible but in a very small package. Motorola quality, aesthetics, and innovation pales in comparison. I used to work for a celluar provider and our company was constantly bailing out on Motorola products. As a matter of fact they spents millions upon millions of dollars converting all of their cell sites from Motorola to Lucent equipment.
LG even makes appliances from what I have read. That's wild. I guess depending on what country you live in product lines are different. I know that Hyundai outside of the US makes cell phones even. What a trip!
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right tool is a very appropriate term. That's about that FreeBSD is. A frikkin' tool. I haven't seen a legitimate commerical operation using FreeBSD for production servers in all my years as in IT. I think I saw more OS/2 and Banyan servers than FreeBSD boxes!
I personally enjoyed OpenVMS more than my experiences using FreeBSD. The little devil mascot should be replaced with a three thousand year old mummy...
I tell you, *BSD is really dying. Soon they will join forces with a networking company to pull each other down into the tarpits too. I can see it down *BSD and Banyan. Building a better tomorrow...today.
You can download an installer that creates a public folder called "Outlook Security Settings." Then you can create policies allowing many things like receiving certain file attachments, synching with the Outlook Address Book by third party apps, etc.
It's funny how that "news for nerds" would lead one to think that it would be factual, objective, scientific, technical, etc. Maybe not, as this is a prime example of more subjective FUD drivel.
MSN Messenger is the IM app that Micro$loth has. Windows Messenger is a service that runs as part of the NT/2000 branch OS. It pops up NET SEND messages. Winpopup.exe is the 9x branch OS equivalent. You are talking about something totally different. Nice kneejerk, conspiracy-like reaction though.
If it takes hours or days for an IT Support staffer to figure out someone disabled the Windows Messenger service these users have bigger problems than they think. Of course we are talking about Windoze support guys after all. They are just about one rung in the intelligence ladder above AOL users!
Actually if I was an idiot and continued to keep my back door unlocked when burglaries were going on all around me I don't think I would care. As a matter for fact I would probably be thankful. Disabling a service that shouldn't have been enabled in the first place. BIg frikkin' deal. Everyone gets on their high horse about privacy, Oliver Stone-esquse governmental/corporate invasiveness, etc. that just common sense goes down the pooper...
It's NET SEND I believe. So I guess you must not use it that much now, eh?
Isn't this a oxymoron? Like jumbo shrimp? Like happily married? Like AOL poweruser?
The typical AOL user is vulnerable no matter which angle you take. It's like if a new ISP service was started by the "...For Dummies" company. As a user you'd have a big Kick Me sign on your back.
I'm not saying reliance on oil is the best situation to be in, but unless someone reinvents lots of associated goods/services/processes I don't see a lot changing.
The slant of the evil oil tyranny was what mainly rubbed me the wrong way with this piece...
Here's an article about the shrinking hole in the ozone layer. Sure enough in about 60 years the hole should close up according to NASA scientists. Most of the data was gathered in the early 1990's by NASA's ATLAS missions. Maybe read (and think) for yourselves rather than blindly accept vague FUD articles posted by hippies who flunked out of college because of too many hits from the skull bong. Maybe read articles based on scientific study...
About 10 years ago there was a shuttle mission intended to study the growing hole in the ozone. the mission came back with results directly contradicting what all of the tree hugging drones were crying about. If I find an URL regarding this I'll post it. What was funny is the tree hugging masses were all crowing about the mission but when the shuttle came back the story was dropped like it was hot!
What I take issue with is what this topic is doing on /. since it has nothing to do with the IT world. Also, while we're splitting hairs, those Jesus-freak flower children out there who hate the evils of oil should swear off everything from Olean to polyester. Perhaps look up what a myriad of products we all use every day are derived from petroleum-based processing. Most ignoramuses though just equate it with their hippie ass VW busses, Geo Metros, and Hondas. Shows the depth of perception.
The tyranny of oil? WTF?! If it wasn't for such dinosaur remnants we wouldn't have progressed into an industrialized society for Chrissakes. Come on. The evil of industrialized countries relying on fossil fuels. Countries that have no other natural resources (and who cannot cultivate food because they live in fscking sand) negotiating profits with their native oil supply. Big deal.
It would be great if other alternative energy sources were mainstream. Having choices is great, and as a member of a free society I can appreciate that. But I can spare the granola shit.
Granted the school visits and suing of small-fish individuals (like the 12 y.o. girl from the 'jects) are out of hand, but OTOH I think the the slanted /. approach of making these industry groups look like wackos is out of hand too. If you were a musician who had worked your way out of the gutter you'd want to be paid your fair share. The excuse that "It's all about freedom, baby, (Austin Powers, 1966)" doesn't hold water. Neither does the excuse that the artists have enough money already. Neither does the excuse that the **AA is only representing their own interests and the artists aren't getting screwed.
This isn't a troll, honest. But if copyright violation, even if a white collar/gray area crime, is going on doesn't that make it wrong?
It's funny that for $50 you can download programs that scan the Internet for such open services and then automate sending millions of messges a day through them. An ex-coworker of mine now is the mail server admin for a "e-mail marketing" company. He says to tools and utilities are next to nothing to purchase and implement. Seeing the cost of sending tons of messages only involves dedicated telco bandwidth, some manhours, and software programs no wonder companies advertise this way rather than expensive bulk mail or print advertising!
Same here. I recently installed Spambayes, which is a freeware spam filtering add-on for mail clients. Works both on Outlook clients and the Linux platform. It filters out 99.9% of the spam I get. Really good for freeware.
The mail header should show a mail server IP address as the sender. This IP address can be looked up in a reverse DNS query to obtain the domain name, then the domain name owner can be looked up in a WHOIS query. Both queries can be done many places on the Internet. If the party isn't the intentional spammer it's likely someone running a mail server unknowingly with an open socks or proxy service on it.
There are fans that attach on the top of your car window and are solar powered. You barely crack the window and away you go. Not exactly what you were talking about, but a step in the right direction.
Since when are they cheaper to use? I've never heard anyone say that in my life. And that's going back to 1982, when they were pitted against the Radio Shack TRS-80's. They always have been more expensive hardware-wise as well as software-wise. So that defense you are referring to is already pretty dented...
No doubt. PPC cannot even connect through Microsoft's Proxy Server. What a joke. They're all Micro$loth pieces but they're incompatible. At least the PPC garbage is TwC (Trustworthy Computing) compliant!
that Inga Rammer is kin to Dirk Diggler?
LG even makes appliances from what I have read. That's wild. I guess depending on what country you live in product lines are different. I know that Hyundai outside of the US makes cell phones even. What a trip!