Here's a mirror: http://www.herrvinny.com/slash.pdf for the Allen report.
Go ahead, I have 6 GB transfer, and it should hold up, or Hostway has explaining to do...
By the way, I hate to be offtopic and all, but if people could visit herrvinny.com, I'm working on an open source voting program. I already have it with the capability to do write in, check multiple choices, instead of just one, etc. Anyone from UW Madison reading this, I'd like to talk to you about field testing this thing. Server edition should be available next week!
Go ahead, I have 6 GB transfer, and it should hold up, or Hostway has explaining to do...
By the way, I hate to be offtopic and all, but if people could visit herrvinny.com, I'm working on an open source voting program. I already have it with the capability to do write in, check multiple choices, instead of just one, etc. Anyone from UW Madison reading this, I'd like to talk to you about field testing this thing. Server edition should be available next week!
Then I'll just blacklist all IP's outside of the U.S. How many of us get legitimate mail from China, Russia, etc? And if countries persist in not cracking down on junk email, then I'm going to set up rules so that whereever the originating country is from, I'll forward the junk email to the country's diplomatic corps. They're supposed to be diplomats, right, negotiating stuff? They can negotiate killing the spammers in their countries.
What really defines an ISP? Last time I checked, the FBI classified a few journalists as ISPs to get their notes. You can probably qualify as an ISP by getting a business DSL line, then adding a wireless router, so anyone on your driveway or nearby can use the Net. When you get spammed, just claim that you are an ISP for anybody near you....
"The scalability of the threading has gone from being able to support 1,200 to 32,000 threads. The impact on Java is just amazing," said Brian Stevens, vice president of operating system development at Red Hat. "That was probably the most significant engineering effort and the most profound impact on customers."
Excellent. Multiple concurrent downloads of lots and lots of pictures, if you know what I mean....
Yeah, I'm game. I have an extra win 98 laptop that can handle it. and at the end, I can just reformat and reinstall windows.
One thing: if I have win XP, and Gator installs itself onto a user account, does it propagate to the admin account, or can the user account be deleted, and Gator/any changes along with it? Thanks.
By the way,/., if you get some legal garbage from Gator, give them my contact info. I had some bad experiences with their shitty software.
SPYWARE, you dirty FAT BASTARDS! Shove it up yours, Gator, because you suck. If you really wanted to notify people about your software, you'd display a huge friggin splash screen informing people that Gator was installed, instead of surreptitiously displaying ads and the users having no clue where they came from.
Seriously, let's create a corporation. I just looked up the fees to incorporate in Illinois, my home state, and it's less than $500, including some fancy fast shipping, hand deilvery, etc. We can sign up people to be unpaid employees or whatever,and we can market some web page design service. And we ONLY use Linux. How many employees/profit does a corporation need to qualify as fortune 1000? I'm willing to start up this corp. Anyone interested?
I am writing to you in support of the students at why-war.com, mirroring the memos of Diebold. They are doing a service to this country by keeping those memos in one place, so everyone can see how flawed Diebold machines are. If you read up on the issues of Diebold voting machines, you will see that they have numerous problems keeping track of votes, eg recording a NEGATIVE 16,000 votes for Gore in contested Florida. If you require more information, I am a very qualified computer programmer and would be glad to go over specifics with you. Please consider me at your service in this issue. Thank you.
Signed,
Vinny
Short and sweet. They're going to receive at least thousands of emails, why not make it easier on their mail servers? After all, they do have to deal with spam as well...
P.S -- Why the hell don't many newer cases come with a fucking proper reset button!
Yeah, I hear you. I'm typing this on a Dell Inspiron laptop running Win XP Home (don't flame me, I'm at college and windows is practically required at UW Madison... sigh) Anyway, the laptop crashed a week ago, and I couldn't find a hard reset button on this thing. It has a power button obviously, but it seems all it does is link straight to Windows because it didn't do anything when I pressed it... Anyway, Windows finally managed to shut itself down after about 3 minutes of unresponsiveness. Dell, if you're listening, you make kickass computers, but please include a hard reset button on your laptops!
Yes, I know this is an MS Hate Zone (TM), and please don't mod me flamebait etc, but what do the feds call iTunes, Napster 2.0, etc? The moronic feds have wayyyyy too much time on their hands.
Spam king switches tune: Net ad guru finds new life running nightclub By NATE PARDUE
Staff Writer
Sanford Wallace, the owner of Plum Crazy nightclub on Route 11 in Rochester, poses at the DJ station where he spends the majority of his time. (Mark Avery/staff photo) ROCHESTER -- He may be known as "DJ MasterWeb" now to his nightclub regulars at Plum Crazy, but Sanford Wallace once ruled the Internet as the king of spam.
By his own account, Wallace, who owns the hopping night spot Plum Crazy on Route 11, was, at one time, responsible for about 80 percent of direct Internet mailings sent to in-boxes around the globe.
The mailings are popularly known as "spam" in the Web world and are virtually impossible to avoid, despite constant efforts to do away with them.
But in the early 1990s, not many people had even heard of the Internet, never mind Internet spam.
"It was junk mail. I have no problem using the term," said the 35-year-old Wallace.
Wallace first learned the craft of computer programming in 1990 from the Chubb Institute, a couple of years before the Internet boom of 1993 and 1994.
Prior to that, the Internet was mainly used by the government and military -- certainly not widely available to the passive computer owner.
When the Web became accessible to the general public, Wallace's entrepreneurial mind began churning.
Much like the junk mail that came through his old-fashioned mailbox every day, Wallace thought there must be a way to transfer that method to the rapidly growing cyberworld.
Wallace found ways to collect a massive list of personal e-mail addresses. He then contacted businesses big and small and asked if -- for a fee -- they would be interested in getting their names out to hundreds, if not millions of people.
In turn, the companies would send their information to Wallace, who formed a Philadelphia, Pa.-based company under the name Cyber Promotions in 1994. He would create advertisements, and send them off into the World Wide Web.
Over the next three years, Wallace sent as many as 30 million e-mails a day to consumers from 10,000 clients, and made millions of dollars in the process.
"I didn't think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. It wasn't as annoying as telemarketing, because with e-mail, I wasn't interrupting anyone's dinner," Wallace said.
But some heavy hitters with very deep pockets didn't quite see it that way.
From 1995 until 1997, Cyber Promotions was involved in 16 separate lawsuits, with companies like America Online and CompuServe.
The basis of many of the lawsuits was that unlike phone lines, computers were considered private property, and Wallace was accused of violating that privacy.
"People were essentially lining up at my virtual door," Wallace said. "I made a lot of lawyers very rich."
Wallace also attracted the ire of Internet enthusiasts -- or computer geeks, as he classifies them -- who strongly voiced their disapproval and outright loathing of Wallace on message boards throughout the Web.
The distaste infamously earned him the nickname "Spamford" in online circles around the country.
The negative reactions and relentless lawsuits started to take their toll, and Wallace decided to get out of the business in 1997.
"I was getting tired of the controversy. My goal was never to bother people," Wallace said.
Wallace took another stab at Internet spamming with SmartBot, a permission-based system where marketers and consumers would agree to be sent spam e-mail, similar to the check boxes found on most online registration pages.
The business lasted for a few more years until the dot-com crash of 2000, when hundreds of self-made millionaires lost their shirts on investments that peaked and fell in just a couple of years.
That was it for Wallace's life as "Spamford."
"A lot of people lost a lot of money. I did too, but there were people out there who got it a lot worse,"
I thought at first it was "CDVIOUSE". The first letter looks a lot like a C, especially with that big chunk cut out of it's right. The second looks like a D to me, because all the top of the B is cut off. Are you sure it's supposed to be "OBVIOUS"?
That's not his point. His 'legal' songs are free, stuff downloaded freely from the internet, with the BAND'S FULL KNOWLEDGE AND CONSENT. He's not making RIAA covered stuff available, he's renaming his stuff so it LOOKS like it's RIAA.
Forced updates are a good thing, in my opinion. All those braindead computer newbies who can't tell the Netscape Online service and the Netscape browser apart (not to mention the Messenger service and the Messenger IM thing) will have their computers protected automatically.
Only thing is, there should be a test for anyone who doesn't want forced updating. I say at minimum, you need to know at least 4 programming languages before you become nerd enough to know how to patch computers by yourself.
I had the same problem, so I forwarded any email with attachments to a Yahoo Mail account, then downloaded the attachment. It's more work, but I'd rather have Outlook Express prevent me from accidently opening an attachment that had a virus. Before the patch, I received two virus laden emails, and when I looked at the emails in the preview pane, outlook express asked me if it should autorun the attached executables. What the hell kind of behavior is that? Almost spat out my drink on my keyboard...
Well, by the DMCA, you'd have to prove that your spam filtering mechanism is a viable, useful, and halfway smart idea. I think that requirement is more than satisfied if you get 90%+ of spam (that shouldn't be a problem, Bayesian filters routinely get 99.99% accuracy kill rate). So yeah, now all you have to do pay for an attorney, or look for a company that will represent you for free. Better yet, get a lawyer, tell him that he gets 80% of the damages or something.
"We're just making up numbers here," Dongarra cautioned. "We don't have real numbers yet. If they get 80 percent, it will be slightly faster than (ASCI Q, the current No. 2 on the Top 500 list)."
Built by Hewlett-Packard for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, ASCI Q is based on 8,000 Alpha processors and operates at 13.8 teraflops.
What are you talking about? They have to displace the SECOND place computer to be second. It operates at 13.8 TF. Virginia Tech is going to need to squeeze every last flop they can get out of this machine
Slashdot Mirror
Here's a mirror: http://www.herrvinny.com/slash.pdf for the Allen report.
Go ahead, I have 6 GB transfer, and it should hold up, or Hostway has explaining to do...
By the way, I hate to be offtopic and all, but if people could visit herrvinny.com, I'm working on an open source voting program. I already have it with the capability to do write in, check multiple choices, instead of just one, etc. Anyone from UW Madison reading this, I'd like to talk to you about field testing this thing. Server edition should be available next week!
Nonsense, here's a mirror: http://www.herrvinny.com/slash.pdf
Go ahead, I have 6 GB transfer, and it should hold up, or Hostway has explaining to do...
By the way, I hate to be offtopic and all, but if people could visit herrvinny.com, I'm working on an open source voting program. I already have it with the capability to do write in, check multiple choices, instead of just one, etc. Anyone from UW Madison reading this, I'd like to talk to you about field testing this thing. Server edition should be available next week!
Then I'll just blacklist all IP's outside of the U.S. How many of us get legitimate mail from China, Russia, etc? And if countries persist in not cracking down on junk email, then I'm going to set up rules so that whereever the originating country is from, I'll forward the junk email to the country's diplomatic corps. They're supposed to be diplomats, right, negotiating stuff? They can negotiate killing the spammers in their countries.
What really defines an ISP? Last time I checked, the FBI classified a few journalists as ISPs to get their notes. You can probably qualify as an ISP by getting a business DSL line, then adding a wireless router, so anyone on your driveway or nearby can use the Net. When you get spammed, just claim that you are an ISP for anybody near you....
"The scalability of the threading has gone from being able to support 1,200 to 32,000 threads. The impact on Java is just amazing," said Brian Stevens, vice president of operating system development at Red Hat. "That was probably the most significant engineering effort and the most profound impact on customers."
Excellent. Multiple concurrent downloads of lots and lots of pictures, if you know what I mean....
Try Here
Yeah, I'm game. I have an extra win 98 laptop that can handle it. and at the end, I can just reformat and reinstall windows.
/., if you get some legal garbage from Gator, give them my contact info. I had some bad experiences with their shitty software.
One thing: if I have win XP, and Gator installs itself onto a user account, does it propagate to the admin account, or can the user account be deleted, and Gator/any changes along with it? Thanks.
By the way,
Tell Gator, instead of whining about it here Gator Contact Form I already sent them the url of the /. discussion..
SPYWARE, you dirty FAT BASTARDS! Shove it up yours, Gator, because you suck. If you really wanted to notify people about your software, you'd display a huge friggin splash screen informing people that Gator was installed, instead of surreptitiously displaying ads and the users having no clue where they came from.
If anyone's interested in the price breakdown, try Here
Seriously, let's create a corporation. I just looked up the fees to incorporate in Illinois, my home state, and it's less than $500, including some fancy fast shipping, hand deilvery, etc. We can sign up people to be unpaid employees or whatever,and we can market some web page design service. And we ONLY use Linux. How many employees/profit does a corporation need to qualify as fortune 1000? I'm willing to start up this corp. Anyone interested?
My email:
Dear Mr. Gross,
I am writing to you in support of the students at why-war.com, mirroring the memos of Diebold. They are doing a service to this country by keeping those memos in one place, so everyone can see how flawed Diebold machines are. If you read up on the issues of Diebold voting machines, you will see that they have numerous problems keeping track of votes, eg recording a NEGATIVE 16,000 votes for Gore in contested Florida. If you require more information, I am a very qualified computer programmer and would be glad to go over specifics with you. Please consider me at your service in this issue. Thank you.
Signed,
Vinny
Short and sweet. They're going to receive at least thousands of emails, why not make it easier on their mail servers? After all, they do have to deal with spam as well...
This was posted more than an hour ago in the previous discussion. see Here
P.S -- Why the hell don't many newer cases come with a fucking proper reset button!
Yeah, I hear you. I'm typing this on a Dell Inspiron laptop running Win XP Home (don't flame me, I'm at college and windows is practically required at UW Madison... sigh) Anyway, the laptop crashed a week ago, and I couldn't find a hard reset button on this thing. It has a power button obviously, but it seems all it does is link straight to Windows because it didn't do anything when I pressed it... Anyway, Windows finally managed to shut itself down after about 3 minutes of unresponsiveness. Dell, if you're listening, you make kickass computers, but please include a hard reset button on your laptops!
Yes, I know this is an MS Hate Zone (TM), and please don't mod me flamebait etc, but what do the feds call iTunes, Napster 2.0, etc? The moronic feds have wayyyyy too much time on their hands.
Yeah, Here
Spam king switches tune: Net ad guru finds new life running nightclub
By NATE PARDUE
Staff Writer
Sanford Wallace, the owner of Plum Crazy nightclub on Route 11 in Rochester, poses at the DJ station where he spends the majority of his time. (Mark Avery/staff photo)
ROCHESTER -- He may be known as "DJ MasterWeb" now to his nightclub regulars at Plum Crazy, but Sanford Wallace once ruled the Internet as the king of spam.
By his own account, Wallace, who owns the hopping night spot Plum Crazy on Route 11, was, at one time, responsible for about 80 percent of direct Internet mailings sent to in-boxes around the globe.
The mailings are popularly known as "spam" in the Web world and are virtually impossible to avoid, despite constant efforts to do away with them.
But in the early 1990s, not many people had even heard of the Internet, never mind Internet spam.
"It was junk mail. I have no problem using the term," said the 35-year-old Wallace.
Wallace first learned the craft of computer programming in 1990 from the Chubb Institute, a couple of years before the Internet boom of 1993 and 1994.
Prior to that, the Internet was mainly used by the government and military -- certainly not widely available to the passive computer owner.
When the Web became accessible to the general public, Wallace's entrepreneurial mind began churning.
Much like the junk mail that came through his old-fashioned mailbox every day, Wallace thought there must be a way to transfer that method to the rapidly growing cyberworld.
Wallace found ways to collect a massive list of personal e-mail addresses. He then contacted businesses big and small and asked if -- for a fee -- they would be interested in getting their names out to hundreds, if not millions of people.
In turn, the companies would send their information to Wallace, who formed a Philadelphia, Pa.-based company under the name Cyber Promotions in 1994. He would create advertisements, and send them off into the World Wide Web.
Over the next three years, Wallace sent as many as 30 million e-mails a day to consumers from 10,000 clients, and made millions of dollars in the process.
"I didn't think there was anything wrong with what I was doing. It wasn't as annoying as telemarketing, because with e-mail, I wasn't interrupting anyone's dinner," Wallace said.
But some heavy hitters with very deep pockets didn't quite see it that way.
From 1995 until 1997, Cyber Promotions was involved in 16 separate lawsuits, with companies like America Online and CompuServe.
The basis of many of the lawsuits was that unlike phone lines, computers were considered private property, and Wallace was accused of violating that privacy.
"People were essentially lining up at my virtual door," Wallace said. "I made a lot of lawyers very rich."
Wallace also attracted the ire of Internet enthusiasts -- or computer geeks, as he classifies them -- who strongly voiced their disapproval and outright loathing of Wallace on message boards throughout the Web.
The distaste infamously earned him the nickname "Spamford" in online circles around the country.
The negative reactions and relentless lawsuits started to take their toll, and Wallace decided to get out of the business in 1997.
"I was getting tired of the controversy. My goal was never to bother people," Wallace said.
Wallace took another stab at Internet spamming with SmartBot, a permission-based system where marketers and consumers would agree to be sent spam e-mail, similar to the check boxes found on most online registration pages.
The business lasted for a few more years until the dot-com crash of 2000, when hundreds of self-made millionaires lost their shirts on investments that peaked and fell in just a couple of years.
That was it for Wallace's life as "Spamford."
"A lot of people lost a lot of money. I did too, but there were people out there who got it a lot worse,"
I thought at first it was "CDVIOUSE". The first letter looks a lot like a C, especially with that big chunk cut out of it's right. The second looks like a D to me, because all the top of the B is cut off. Are you sure it's supposed to be "OBVIOUS"?
That's not his point. His 'legal' songs are free, stuff downloaded freely from the internet, with the BAND'S FULL KNOWLEDGE AND CONSENT. He's not making RIAA covered stuff available, he's renaming his stuff so it LOOKS like it's RIAA.
server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt;
That's a REAL linux server... all you pansies are running clean servers, and Linux should/can run with the big, dirty dogs..
Forced updates are a good thing, in my opinion. All those braindead computer newbies who can't tell the Netscape Online service and the Netscape browser apart (not to mention the Messenger service and the Messenger IM thing) will have their computers protected automatically.
Only thing is, there should be a test for anyone who doesn't want forced updating. I say at minimum, you need to know at least 4 programming languages before you become nerd enough to know how to patch computers by yourself.
I had the same problem, so I forwarded any email with attachments to a Yahoo Mail account, then downloaded the attachment. It's more work, but I'd rather have Outlook Express prevent me from accidently opening an attachment that had a virus. Before the patch, I received two virus laden emails, and when I looked at the emails in the preview pane, outlook express asked me if it should autorun the attached executables. What the hell kind of behavior is that? Almost spat out my drink on my keyboard...
Well, by the DMCA, you'd have to prove that your spam filtering mechanism is a viable, useful, and halfway smart idea. I think that requirement is more than satisfied if you get 90%+ of spam (that shouldn't be a problem, Bayesian filters routinely get 99.99% accuracy kill rate). So yeah, now all you have to do pay for an attorney, or look for a company that will represent you for free. Better yet, get a lawyer, tell him that he gets 80% of the damages or something.
Finally, /. posted this. I already downloaded it 15-20 minutes ago!
"We're just making up numbers here," Dongarra cautioned. "We don't have real numbers yet. If they get 80 percent, it will be slightly faster than (ASCI Q, the current No. 2 on the Top 500 list)." Built by Hewlett-Packard for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, ASCI Q is based on 8,000 Alpha processors and operates at 13.8 teraflops.
What are you talking about? They have to displace the SECOND place computer to be second. It operates at 13.8 TF. Virginia Tech is going to need to squeeze every last flop they can get out of this machine