Not to mention that there are people like me: I never file bugs on MS products, I don't think they would listen. OSS projects tend to be very responsive and hence I file more bug reports.
Same here in Norway. Positions are vacant for a long time before the right person is found. And it's not because of the salaries, it's just because there are basicly no skilled IT worker without a job these days. For family reasons I'm relocating these days, and before I had the time to look for a new job in my new town I had offers flowing. Most of those jobs had been vacant for over half a year.
Unemployment rate is below 2% for IT workers here.
SpamAssassin and greylisting kills all my spam (both home and at work) without false positives (I don't monitor everything, but do some regexp checks). I can admit I kinda cheat a bit: Since I'm Norwegian bayes is way more effective than for English-speaking users. But I got SpamAssassin using razor2, pyzor, dcc, rules du jour with all rulesets and some custom rules to score messages from Brazil, China and Korea a bit extra.
Being both non-English and non-US probably makes this war a whole lot easier. The few times I get hit with Norwegian spam I contact their ISP and get them shut down and then file a complain with the right authorities. Happens only 1-2 times a year, though.
To me it is vital to be able to run my own mailserver. Blocking port 25 inbound seems like a greedy ISP, but 25 outbound is reasonable. I just smarthost all my outgoing through my ISP's mailserver.
Badicly you give the sender a 450 error, which is a temporary error. Any mailserver following the RFC will then retry for a period. Most spammers use botnets and zombies and just spam and run, they never look at the response from the mailserver. I am not aware of any 'wellknown' email servers that does not honour the 450 error, even Exchange does. You tell the server to reconnet after X minutes, attemots to delive before that gives more 450 errors.
sqlgrey is the one I use, there are others. sqlgrey has the ability to opt in or opt out the addresses you want protected so your scenario should world just great for testing.
Another feature I did test a while ago was something called greetpause, which waits a number of seconds before it greets the other mailserver. Wellbehaved servers (all legitimate, as far as I know) wait until they are greeted before issuing commands. Again, the spammers rarely do. If the sender sends before the greet the connection is closed. I don't use this today as it's not in the stable build for my distro, but have used it under testing with excellent results.
One 'warning': leave one address unfiltered, some sites use their own mail handling scripts and does not honour the RFCs. Mostly bittorentsite-type registrations give you this trouble, though.
You must not forget that it is one email per challenge/response system... You aren't the only one putting the burden of spam on everyone else. I got SpamAssassin and greylisting and very rarely see any spam, and I don't miss any email either. Let me give you some stats on that:
- August 2005 I had only SpamAssassin and 3000 messages got tagged as spam
- July 2006 I had greylisting aswell: only 200 spams reached SpamAssasin to be tagged as spam
Greylisting does burden the sending mailserver, but not by far like a challenge/response system puts a burden on everyone. Greylisting doesn't burden any users, just servers:)
I feel the urge to strangle you. Stop using that horrible 'solution'. All your are doing is stuffing more spam my way.
I have been joejobbed 5 times the past 2 months and I end up with insane amounts of these messages. I manage to filter out all the spam, but these get through.
Oh, and just to mention.. Whenever I get a message from a moron solution like this I actually go through the trouble of responding so I know you will be getting the damned spam anyways. And I fire off that challenge/response message to Spamcop and similar services.
Could you please stop breaking the Internet just to make it convenient for yourself?
I deliberately show up 10 minutes late when I go the movies. I don't pay $15 to watch commercials. If enough people do this I guess they will start closing the doors when the time is there, but so far they still let you in late.
I figured I'd try a Mac and got myself an iBook. I regret horribly ever after, mostly because it's so underpowered it's unusable for anything else than being a SSH terminal to my Linux server. Adding 512MB RAM helped a bit, but not much. OSX might be great, but it will cost you. The low end MACs shouldn't be sold at all.
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I think it's growing too fast now just be normal behaviour. In Norway, unemployment rate of IT workers dropped over 30% in a year now. A neighbouring muncipality here had to hire a new head of IT. His salary exceeds everyone elses, even the mayor and the whole upper manglement.
I don't think we will see it coming to an end like last time, but it's definately heating up.
In Norway there really is no difference between a CV or a resume. In one page you summarize your education and skills. The skill of understanding what matters and what doesn't is at least something I expect from anyone applying for a senior position.
There might obviously be different cultures in different countries, on top of personal preferences of the reviewer. However, this format has landed me top jobs since the day I graduated and I have never been a day without employment. I think the application itself is one of the reasons, simply because it's small size stands out.
I think most employers are reasonable and do not only want the one with the best skills, but also want someone who fit the organization. The more information you provide the more likely you are to find a job that makes you happy and which you want to keep for a while.
I hired the one who had skills over a certain threshold and who I believe will stick around for many years. Skills kan be developed, but replacing people every 1-2 years is hard.
12 applicants and 2 of those did as the ad instructed (written and snailmailed application, without diplomas and crap, only a cover letter and a CV). Most had a messy CV which I have a hard time reading and comparing with others. One hadn't updated his since 2001. The worst one was almost 60 pages long and included a huge essay detailing his life. Most pages were just 'diplomas' from every course or training he ever attended. It seemed as if he asked everyone who ever taught him ANYHING to also make some kind of 'proof' for that knowledge. Needless to say, I simply threw it out without even looking at his details.
I want a CV/resume like parent is suggesting plus a SHORT letter, max 1 page with:
* Who you are
* What you currently do
* Why you want to change employer
* Why you suit this job
* What your goals are
I also want applicants to be honest. Telle me of potential weak spots you have, and tell me how you want to tackle them. Applicants with minor faults look more honest than those perfect candidates. And claiming to have a skill you don't have only makes you nervous and will piss me off when I expect you to be able to do something. If I know I need to hold your hand for a while I will happily do so if you were honest about it.
I don't want to see your diplomas until I ask for them or invite you in for an interview.
The article mentions you being limited to 650kbit from the content provider. That puts the 20mbit they sell into perspective.
I pay over $100/month for 1mbit up 20 down and a static IP with my custom reverse DNS. I pay premium (at least compared to the other options here) and expect premium.
I feel the need to clarify this a bit, before the submitter is totally fried for being out of date.
The throttling begun in June, but it was not made public until September 30th when the National Broadcasting Corporation published a statement. After that the ISP in question received lots of angry phonecalls and emails (also from yours truly which happens to be a customer). On October 3rd the ISP declared that it has ended the practise because everyone hated them.
The ISP claim that the free content is growing more rapidly than their infrastructure can handle, and that they prioritize their investments to suit content providers who pay up. The weird thing is that the same ISP is happily upgrading all their customers with broader DSL access and very actively marketing 20mbit ADSL2+.
It ate enough to drain my 2mbit home SHDSL.
It's banned on sight, I block it at work (250 employees and 400 pupils), and I remove it from any family machine that is 'slow'.
I concluded that Skype sucks. Use one of the IM networks instead, many of them supports voice chat too.
In Norway a pilot almost lost his job when he refused to be screened...
By the way, if I were a terrorist I would just send a bunch of suicide bombers to blow up that 2-3hour security queue at a few airports. To me it seems these 'terrorists' are more interested in playing a game of getting past airport security than actually killing people.
I try not to fly anymore, I always get the extra screening when I do even though it never beeps on me (I always have the same clothes/belt/shoes on me when flying cause I know they don't beep...).
80% of the Norwegian banks went offline for a week when a technitian did the exact same thing. I think it took them two weeks to recover everything, but they managed to eventually.
I'm inclined to wonder if the guy lost his job and left the country...
My tests show that RIS provides the files at 10mbit, but that is very dependant on your hardware. This is a server with 10k RPM SCSI drives doing 1 remote install. It would be 10mbit* if the disk IO doesn't kill the throughput of the harddrives. On 100mbit that would give you 7-8 clients before the slowdown occurs. On a gigabit link you could possibly do 70-80. Ghost uses multicast, one read from the disk and one stream to the clients. With multicasting you can scale to whatever number of nodes you need, with never ever noticing a slowdown.
> Myself, I use muscle memory to store mine. I make up an entierley random password
> and spend 20 minutes typing it over and over again until my hands remember how to
> make that sequence of twitches. Works great; and no risk of me acidentally telling
> someone my password because I don't know what it is.
I do the same. My password is about 20 random characters.
The best part is that when you are drunk your hands refuse to type it correctly, and you can't type it slowly since that breaks the rhythm.
I believe that has saved myself and my employer tons of work.
RIS for 1-2 occational installs where you have mixed hardware. This suits my needs and I use it all the time. Ghost has multicast ability and is nice if you have more than 2 machines you need to build and they are identical ('identical' can be bypassed if you put a lot of effort into building the images).
RIS only got unicast, which means you will hog your network. It was very fun to see the MS-fanboy taking charge of the imaging process at my college and trying to do 50 installs simultaniously.
It's real allright, but the Hiroshima-comparison is kinda far fetched. It might be a good comparison mathemathical-wise, but it sure as hell doesn't work for regular people. There was no obvious destruction and they aren't certain they have found the spot where it crashed yet.
Nobody lives close to where it hit, and there isn't any major destruction, but witnesses claim they heard and felt the impact from a long distance. True or not, I don't know. Not sure how fast these babies travel, but it's estimated that it weighed 10-12 kilograms.
This is newsworthy for a local newspaper in Norway, but not/.-worthy. Trust me.
PS: Aftenposten is the biggest newspaper in Norway? THAT'S A BLODY SLASHVERTISEMENT FOR A VERY SMALL NEWSPAPER! But it's regarded as a serious newspaper, even though it's small.
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Labeling "GM-food" as dangerous is the same as labeling software as dangerous because there is malicious software out there.
Not to mention that there are people like me: I never file bugs on MS products, I don't think they would listen. OSS projects tend to be very responsive and hence I file more bug reports.
Same here in Norway. Positions are vacant for a long time before the right person is found. And it's not because of the salaries, it's just because there are basicly no skilled IT worker without a job these days.
For family reasons I'm relocating these days, and before I had the time to look for a new job in my new town I had offers flowing. Most of those jobs had been vacant for over half a year.
Unemployment rate is below 2% for IT workers here.
SpamAssassin and greylisting kills all my spam (both home and at work) without false positives (I don't monitor everything, but do some regexp checks).
I can admit I kinda cheat a bit: Since I'm Norwegian bayes is way more effective than for English-speaking users.
But I got SpamAssassin using razor2, pyzor, dcc, rules du jour with all rulesets and some custom rules to score messages from Brazil, China and Korea a bit extra.
Being both non-English and non-US probably makes this war a whole lot easier. The few times I get hit with Norwegian spam I contact their ISP and get them shut down and then file a complain with the right authorities. Happens only 1-2 times a year, though.
To me it is vital to be able to run my own mailserver. Blocking port 25 inbound seems like a greedy ISP, but 25 outbound is reasonable. I just smarthost all my outgoing through my ISP's mailserver.
Depends on your freylisting service. Mine whitelists if domain + sending IP sends more than 10 messages, so it's not am issue.
Badicly you give the sender a 450 error, which is a temporary error. Any mailserver following the RFC will then retry for a period. Most spammers use botnets and zombies and just spam and run, they never look at the response from the mailserver. I am not aware of any 'wellknown' email servers that does not honour the 450 error, even Exchange does. You tell the server to reconnet after X minutes, attemots to delive before that gives more 450 errors.
sqlgrey is the one I use, there are others. sqlgrey has the ability to opt in or opt out the addresses you want protected so your scenario should world just great for testing.
Another feature I did test a while ago was something called greetpause, which waits a number of seconds before it greets the other mailserver. Wellbehaved servers (all legitimate, as far as I know) wait until they are greeted before issuing commands. Again, the spammers rarely do. If the sender sends before the greet the connection is closed. I don't use this today as it's not in the stable build for my distro, but have used it under testing with excellent results.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting
One 'warning': leave one address unfiltered, some sites use their own mail handling scripts and does not honour the RFCs. Mostly bittorentsite-type registrations give you this trouble, though.
You must not forget that it is one email per challenge/response system... You aren't the only one putting the burden of spam on everyone else.
:)
I got SpamAssassin and greylisting and very rarely see any spam, and I don't miss any email either.
Let me give you some stats on that:
- August 2005 I had only SpamAssassin and 3000 messages got tagged as spam
- July 2006 I had greylisting aswell: only 200 spams reached SpamAssasin to be tagged as spam
Greylisting does burden the sending mailserver, but not by far like a challenge/response system puts a burden on everyone. Greylisting doesn't burden any users, just servers
I feel the urge to strangle you. Stop using that horrible 'solution'. All your are doing is stuffing more spam my way. I have been joejobbed 5 times the past 2 months and I end up with insane amounts of these messages. I manage to filter out all the spam, but these get through. Oh, and just to mention.. Whenever I get a message from a moron solution like this I actually go through the trouble of responding so I know you will be getting the damned spam anyways. And I fire off that challenge/response message to Spamcop and similar services. Could you please stop breaking the Internet just to make it convenient for yourself?
I deliberately show up 10 minutes late when I go the movies. I don't pay $15 to watch commercials.
:)
If enough people do this I guess they will start closing the doors when the time is there, but so far they still let you in late.
Haven't missed the beginning of a movie yet
I figured I'd try a Mac and got myself an iBook.
I regret horribly ever after, mostly because it's so underpowered it's unusable for anything else than being a SSH terminal to my Linux server. Adding 512MB RAM helped a bit, but not much.
OSX might be great, but it will cost you. The low end MACs shouldn't be sold at all.
I think it's growing too fast now just be normal behaviour.
In Norway, unemployment rate of IT workers dropped over 30% in a year now.
A neighbouring muncipality here had to hire a new head of IT. His salary exceeds everyone elses, even the mayor and the whole upper manglement.
I don't think we will see it coming to an end like last time, but it's definately heating up.
In Norway there really is no difference between a CV or a resume. In one page you summarize your education and skills.
The skill of understanding what matters and what doesn't is at least something I expect from anyone applying for a senior position.
There might obviously be different cultures in different countries, on top of personal preferences of the reviewer. However, this format has landed me top jobs since the day I graduated and I have never been a day without employment. I think the application itself is one of the reasons, simply because it's small size stands out.
I think most employers are reasonable and do not only want the one with the best skills, but also want someone who fit the organization. The more information you provide the more likely you are to find a job that makes you happy and which you want to keep for a while.
I hired the one who had skills over a certain threshold and who I believe will stick around for many years. Skills kan be developed, but replacing people every 1-2 years is hard.
Recently hired someone...
12 applicants and 2 of those did as the ad instructed (written and snailmailed application, without diplomas and crap, only a cover letter and a CV).
Most had a messy CV which I have a hard time reading and comparing with others.
One hadn't updated his since 2001.
The worst one was almost 60 pages long and included a huge essay detailing his life. Most pages were just 'diplomas' from every course or training he ever attended. It seemed as if he asked everyone who ever taught him ANYHING to also make some kind of 'proof' for that knowledge. Needless to say, I simply threw it out without even looking at his details.
I want a CV/resume like parent is suggesting plus a SHORT letter, max 1 page with:
* Who you are
* What you currently do
* Why you want to change employer
* Why you suit this job
* What your goals are
I also want applicants to be honest. Telle me of potential weak spots you have, and tell me how you want to tackle them.
Applicants with minor faults look more honest than those perfect candidates. And claiming to have a skill you don't have only makes you nervous and will piss me off when I expect you to be able to do something. If I know I need to hold your hand for a while I will happily do so if you were honest about it.
I don't want to see your diplomas until I ask for them or invite you in for an interview.
The article mentions you being limited to 650kbit from the content provider. That puts the 20mbit they sell into perspective.
I pay over $100/month for 1mbit up 20 down and a static IP with my custom reverse DNS. I pay premium (at least compared to the other options here) and expect premium.
I feel the need to clarify this a bit, before the submitter is totally fried for being out of date.
The throttling begun in June, but it was not made public until September 30th when the National Broadcasting Corporation published a statement. After that the ISP in question received lots of angry phonecalls and emails (also from yours truly which happens to be a customer). On October 3rd the ISP declared that it has ended the practise because everyone hated them.
The ISP claim that the free content is growing more rapidly than their infrastructure can handle, and that they prioritize their investments to suit content providers who pay up.
The weird thing is that the same ISP is happily upgrading all their customers with broader DSL access and very actively marketing 20mbit ADSL2+.
While we are doing good deeds: using textual representation of the colours is deprecated.
It ate enough to drain my 2mbit home SHDSL. It's banned on sight, I block it at work (250 employees and 400 pupils), and I remove it from any family machine that is 'slow'. I concluded that Skype sucks. Use one of the IM networks instead, many of them supports voice chat too.
In Norway a pilot almost lost his job when he refused to be screened...
By the way, if I were a terrorist I would just send a bunch of suicide bombers to blow up that 2-3hour security queue at a few airports. To me it seems these 'terrorists' are more interested in playing a game of getting past airport security than actually killing people.
I try not to fly anymore, I always get the extra screening when I do even though it never beeps on me (I always have the same clothes/belt/shoes on me when flying cause I know they don't beep...).
80% of the Norwegian banks went offline for a week when a technitian did the exact same thing.
I think it took them two weeks to recover everything, but they managed to eventually.
I'm inclined to wonder if the guy lost his job and left the country...
Backporting and backwards compatibility are not the same things.
My tests show that RIS provides the files at 10mbit, but that is very dependant on your hardware. This is a server with 10k RPM SCSI drives doing 1 remote install.
It would be 10mbit* if the disk IO doesn't kill the throughput of the harddrives. On 100mbit that would give you 7-8 clients before the slowdown occurs. On a gigabit link you could possibly do 70-80.
Ghost uses multicast, one read from the disk and one stream to the clients. With multicasting you can scale to whatever number of nodes you need, with never ever noticing a slowdown.
> Myself, I use muscle memory to store mine. I make up an entierley random password
> and spend 20 minutes typing it over and over again until my hands remember how to
> make that sequence of twitches. Works great; and no risk of me acidentally telling
> someone my password because I don't know what it is.
I do the same. My password is about 20 random characters.
The best part is that when you are drunk your hands refuse to type it correctly, and you can't type it slowly since that breaks the rhythm.
I believe that has saved myself and my employer tons of work.
RIS for 1-2 occational installs where you have mixed hardware. This suits my needs and I use it all the time.
Ghost has multicast ability and is nice if you have more than 2 machines you need to build and they are identical ('identical' can be bypassed if you put a lot of effort into building the images).
RIS only got unicast, which means you will hog your network. It was very fun to see the MS-fanboy taking charge of the imaging process at my college and trying to do 50 installs simultaniously.
It's real allright, but the Hiroshima-comparison is kinda far fetched. It might be a good comparison mathemathical-wise, but it sure as hell doesn't work for regular people. There was no obvious destruction and they aren't certain they have found the spot where it crashed yet.
/.-worthy. Trust me.
Nobody lives close to where it hit, and there isn't any major destruction, but witnesses claim they heard and felt the impact from a long distance. True or not, I don't know.
Not sure how fast these babies travel, but it's estimated that it weighed 10-12 kilograms.
This is newsworthy for a local newspaper in Norway, but not
PS: Aftenposten is the biggest newspaper in Norway? THAT'S A BLODY SLASHVERTISEMENT FOR A VERY SMALL NEWSPAPER! But it's regarded as a serious newspaper, even though it's small.