My home network computers have all been talking routable ipv6 natively for yonks, even though my internet link is a single ip4. - My router (running freebsd) uses the freenet software/gateway at freenet-6, and my home machines are simply configured with ip6 'normally' with no specifics relating to the fact the ip6 is tunneled.
All slashdot needs to do is configure something like the "reverse proxy" in apache.
It's easy to automate something like:
http://www.somesite.org.cache.slashdot.org/someu rl that would automatically map to http://www.somesite.org/someurl
When a request is first made to one of the *.cache.slashdot.org addresses, the slashdot cache machine fetches the data in realtime, and (for a static page, like image, movie, sound file etc. in particular) stores it in a local cache, so the next time someone requests the file, its pulled from the slashdot site cache.
It's a "reverse proxy" because it behaves just like a web-proxy, except it's proxying for the remote-server rather than the client-browser.
To avoid misuse, someone could easily hack up something that only allowed specific URL's to work - ones that are automatically added to a list when a new slashdot article is posted, and automatically expire after 2 weeks (say)
A wildcard dns for *.cache.slashdot.org and apache ServerAlias *.cache.slashdot.org coupled with dynamic "authorised addresses" loaded via a.htaccess would make configuration almost automatic.
This would have the required effect on saving bandwidth, would require minimal per-post administration, and would behave more like a "google-temporary-cache" than a "mirror" so should be more acceptable to site owners too. (Site owners will still have control, as they'd be able to set standard non-caching-headers on files that they don't want cached for any reason)
And the apache reverse proxy sets the "X-Forwarded-For: " header so IP access logs can still be kept simply by configuring apache to store that header in the access log file.
> I was kinda waiting for WLS. I am tried of doing a WHOIS on bunch of Domain Names, every morning, to see if they expired;)
Fair enough, but why should Verisign have this monopoly ?
>For said domain, I receive everything that is sent to *@mydomain.tld. I used this > to keep track of which people would sell my email address. For example if I had > to register with shavedpussy.com, I'd give them the email address: > shavedpussy.com@mydomain.tld. Now when I get spam at that email address I > know I can't trust shavedpussy.com and it hurts my feelings. > Now I have to block *@mydomain.tld and specifically add any new email that I > assign. I'm extatic, because it's not a lot of work at all and just in general I'm > bored most of the time, so I can use the distraction.
I do the same thing, for the same reasons, however I use a subdomain for this - can't you do the same thing ? i.e. remove the *@mydomain.com like you have, but create a *@myfourthaccount.mydomain.com and start using that instead
> It is intuitively appealing to believe that the problem with mobile phones is the use of > your hands. It isn't. A number of studies have shown that there is no difference in accident > rates between users of hand-held and hands-free phones.
It's probably not quantifiable, but I wonder how using a hands-free phone compares with chatting to a passenger in the car ?
> A well behaved program won't go GETs on every RSS page, but will do HEADS, > compare them to what it already has, and decide from there > to get or not get the new page.
An even more behaved program will issue a GET with the "If-Modified-Since: " header, which will mean the server will return a "304 - not modified" if the file hasn't changed, or the actual file if it has.. Thus doing in one operation what a combined HEAD and followup GET would take 2 to do.
If you mean irreversible as in "are not reversible to something that then can be hashed back into the original hash", then that obviously depends on the strength of the hash algorithm being used.
If you mean "reversible into the original text" then its clearly impossible if the original text has more bits than the hash has.
If you hash all combinations of a 129bit number into a 128bit hash, you are BOUND to get repetitions.. NO, I haven't seen any either, but they still exist:-)
I had similar problems with freeserves nameservers.
Strangely, by switching my home box DNS to do DNS requests directly, instead of forwarding them to freeserve, everything worked fine.
I was online most of the day via ssh to canada, and I had no problems, other than these dns problems.
As Pasc said, you need to train the Bayesian filters.
My spamassassin installation is MUCH more accurate now that it was when I first installed it a few months ago.. I've never bothered to train it manually, I've just waited for it to auto-tune - though my server hosts a few domains for people, and I DO get roughly 10,000 spams a day coming in...
> Just for the same reason why my brand new Linux box has a > "nobody" account. Which, admittedly, cannot log on. > > Having an user with no privileges whatsoever (at least in theory) is a very handy convenience.
Not directed at your comment, but remember that 'nobody' *does* have privileges.... Privileges to access everything running as "nobody" for one thing.
So many people install irc servers, web servers, etc.etc. as "nobody", yet if one is compromised, the hacker has access to all the stuff running as nobody.. You should use DIFFERENT and SEPERATE "nobodys" for each service, not rely on the stock "nobody"
> This is, of course, a rather absurd situation, since everybody > does it and even the pro-copyright people (of whom I am normally one) > don't argue that the behaviour is unreasonable
Of course, this law you are talking about came about before it was possible to copy things for personal use..
It's really just the case of an out-of-date law that was never updated, like the one that taxi drivers in London must carry hay in their cab, or that its legal to kill a Welsh person in Chepstow with a bow and arrow before noon *cough*
It's the compulsary thing that is chilling.
I WILL NOT carry an ID card around with me, unless I am going to apply for a driving license, or bank account or passport or something similar.
If I'm going out for a walk, or just popping out to a neighbours, or riding my bike, or going swimming, I will not carry one. Law or no Law. Period.
I've said this before, but not ALL of us are the sorts who are permanently attached to our mobile phones, pagers, laptops, wallet, credit cards, and keychains with 1200 keys on them.
I often go out with literally nothing but the clothes I'm wearing (swimming down the beach, or cycling for example) and that is not going to change
> What if people started wearing themse tags all the time, and the receivers > became ubiquitous, maybe with an earpiece.
And to think there are still some of us out here that have issues with ID cards. No wonder the UK Government thinks it can push through such a scheme...
> Australia deciding to drop its asteroid watching program isn't much of an improvement > As far as I know, it leaves us with a very large blind spot.
Ok, I'm probably going to regret posting this, but doesn't the fact we're spinnin' and movin' mean that if Australia stopped watching, we wouldn't get a blind spot - yes, a blind spot at a snapshot in time, but not overall ??
Slashdot Mirror
My home network computers have all been talking routable ipv6 natively for yonks, even though my internet link is a single ip4. - My router (running freebsd) uses the freenet software/gateway at freenet-6, and my home machines are simply configured with ip6 'normally' with no specifics relating to the fact the ip6 is tunneled.
> "not at all" um.. Uk National morning TV gm.tv even bbc has bbc.tv ...
All slashdot needs to do is configure something like the "reverse proxy" in apache.
u rl that would automatically map to http://www.somesite.org/someurl
.htaccess would make configuration almost automatic.
It's easy to automate something like:
http://www.somesite.org.cache.slashdot.org/some
When a request is first made to one of the *.cache.slashdot.org addresses, the slashdot cache machine fetches the data in realtime, and (for a static page, like image, movie, sound file etc. in particular) stores it in a local cache, so the next time someone requests the file, its pulled from the slashdot site cache.
It's a "reverse proxy" because it behaves just like a web-proxy, except it's proxying for the remote-server rather than the client-browser.
To avoid misuse, someone could easily hack up something that only allowed specific URL's to work - ones that are automatically added to a list when a new slashdot article is posted, and automatically expire after 2 weeks (say)
A wildcard dns for *.cache.slashdot.org and apache ServerAlias *.cache.slashdot.org coupled with dynamic "authorised addresses" loaded via a
This would have the required effect on saving bandwidth, would require minimal per-post administration, and would behave more like a "google-temporary-cache" than a "mirror" so should be more acceptable to site owners too. (Site owners will still have control, as they'd be able to set standard non-caching-headers on files that they don't want cached for any reason)
And the apache reverse proxy sets the "X-Forwarded-For: " header so IP access logs can still be kept simply by configuring apache to store that header in the access log file.
> I was kinda waiting for WLS. I am tried of doing a WHOIS on bunch of Domain Names, every morning, to see if they expired ;)
Fair enough, but why should Verisign have this monopoly ?
>For said domain, I receive everything that is sent to *@mydomain.tld. I used this
> to keep track of which people would sell my email address. For example if I had
> to register with shavedpussy.com, I'd give them the email address:
> shavedpussy.com@mydomain.tld. Now when I get spam at that email address I
> know I can't trust shavedpussy.com and it hurts my feelings.
> Now I have to block *@mydomain.tld and specifically add any new email that I
> assign. I'm extatic, because it's not a lot of work at all and just in general I'm
> bored most of the time, so I can use the distraction.
I do the same thing, for the same reasons, however I use a subdomain for this - can't you do the same thing ? i.e. remove the *@mydomain.com like you have, but create a *@myfourthaccount.mydomain.com and start using that instead
> It is intuitively appealing to believe that the problem with mobile phones is the use of
> your hands. It isn't. A number of studies have shown that there is no difference in accident
> rates between users of hand-held and hands-free phones.
It's probably not quantifiable, but I wonder how using a hands-free phone compares with chatting to a passenger in the car ?
> A well behaved program won't go GETs on every RSS page, but will do HEADS,
> compare them to what it already has, and decide from there
> to get or not get the new page.
An even more behaved program will issue a GET with the "If-Modified-Since: " header, which will mean the server will return a "304 - not modified" if the file hasn't changed, or the actual file if it has.. Thus doing in one operation what a combined HEAD and followup GET would take 2 to do.
Move along, move along, this ain't Linux
If you mean irreversible as in "are not reversible to something that then can be hashed back into the original hash", then that obviously depends on the strength of the hash algorithm being used.
:-)
If you mean "reversible into the original text" then its clearly impossible if the original text has more bits than the hash has.
If you hash all combinations of a 129bit number into a 128bit hash, you are BOUND to get repetitions.. NO, I haven't seen any either, but they still exist
Manic Miner(and other spectrum games online)
I had similar problems with freeserves nameservers. Strangely, by switching my home box DNS to do DNS requests directly, instead of forwarding them to freeserve, everything worked fine. I was online most of the day via ssh to canada, and I had no problems, other than these dns problems.
Errrrm, KDE has KasBar which is quite similar
As Pasc said, you need to train the Bayesian filters.
My spamassassin installation is MUCH more accurate now that it was when I first installed it a few months ago.. I've never bothered to train it manually, I've just waited for it to auto-tune - though my server hosts a few domains for people, and I DO get roughly 10,000 spams a day coming in...
> Am I the only one that looks at the number '666' and thinks a+rw?
:-)
a=rw
> highlighting, copying and pasting.
1) Highlight.
2) Middle Button.
"copying" is implied on X just by highlighting something.
Middle button, paste - In opera, simply pressing it anywhere on the web page will open a new window with that url.
No need to CTRL-N, move the mouse to the box, paste, OK etc.
bork! bork! bork!
> Just for the same reason why my brand new Linux box has a
> "nobody" account. Which, admittedly, cannot log on.
>
> Having an user with no privileges whatsoever (at least in theory) is a very handy convenience.
Not directed at your comment, but remember that 'nobody' *does* have privileges.... Privileges to access everything running as "nobody" for one thing.
So many people install irc servers, web servers, etc.etc. as "nobody", yet if one is compromised, the hacker has access to all the stuff running as nobody.. You should use DIFFERENT and SEPERATE "nobodys" for each service, not rely on the stock "nobody"
> This is, of course, a rather absurd situation, since everybody
> does it and even the pro-copyright people (of whom I am normally one)
> don't argue that the behaviour is unreasonable
Of course, this law you are talking about came about before it was possible to copy things for personal use..
It's really just the case of an out-of-date law that was never updated, like the one that taxi drivers in London must carry hay in their cab, or that its legal to kill a Welsh person in Chepstow with a bow and arrow before noon *cough*
It's the compulsary thing that is chilling. I WILL NOT carry an ID card around with me, unless I am going to apply for a driving license, or bank account or passport or something similar. If I'm going out for a walk, or just popping out to a neighbours, or riding my bike, or going swimming, I will not carry one. Law or no Law. Period. I've said this before, but not ALL of us are the sorts who are permanently attached to our mobile phones, pagers, laptops, wallet, credit cards, and keychains with 1200 keys on them. I often go out with literally nothing but the clothes I'm wearing (swimming down the beach, or cycling for example) and that is not going to change
> There is no "principle of fair use".
Someone should tell these solicitors then:
http://www.swarb.co.uk/lawb/ipFairUse.html
> What if people started wearing themse tags all the time, and the receivers
> became ubiquitous, maybe with an earpiece.
And to think there are still some of us out here that have issues with ID cards. No wonder the UK Government thinks it can push through such a scheme...
> Australia deciding to drop its asteroid watching program isn't much of an improvement
> As far as I know, it leaves us with a very large blind spot.
Ok, I'm probably going to regret posting this, but doesn't the fact we're spinnin' and movin' mean that if Australia stopped watching, we wouldn't get a blind spot - yes, a blind spot at a snapshot in time, but not overall ??
NO!
.ra etc.etc.
mplayer - unix/FreeBSD/Linux
mEDIAplayer - windows
mplayer plays em all. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
real, avi, divx, xvid, mpeg, mp3, mp2, m4a,
NO! mplayer - unix/FreeBSD/Linux mEDIAplayer - windows mplayer plays em all. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ real, avi, divx, xvid, mpeg, mp3, mp2, m4a, .ra etc.etc.
> I think spam is not that big of a deal. It's just a small annoyance
:-)
> that can be deleted in less than 3 clicks.
I run my own server, and mailhost for a number of friends and family.
In total, the server receives approx 10,000 spams a day which is not at all reasonable.
Secondly, because of 'porn spam' my young niece can't have her own email address.
Thirdly, lots of spam in a mailbox can sometimes make you miss important emails if you just delete them quickly.
Finally, no-clicks at all... GUI mailers are too slow