"Hey everyone, there Annirak sitting by (him|her|it)self in the corner! Let's go screw with (him|her|it) by making a joke and watching (him|her|it)self get worked into a tizzy trying to correct our faulty logic!"
As an aside, one trait of people with Asperger's Syndrome (from the DSM-IV), is "Low to no apparent sense of humor". Look it up, you might learn something about yourself.
I discovered this when I was putting together a web-based interface to our PowerDNS DB. Saved me lots of time, and we don't have to worry about our support staff putting bogus information into DNS.
Running 2.9.16 on Debian Woody servers. Rock-solid stable, quick, and I love the scalability. I wrote a nice set of Perl classes for DB manipulation, and tied it all into our provisioning system. It was easy with the MySQL backend.
(Assuming, of course, that you're smart enough to not go skinny dipping in a random hotspring....)
Please enlighten this dumb city slicker about why that's a bad thing. I spent a couple of weeks out near Jackson Hole, and the locals showed me a few isolated springs to hang out in. I wore swim trunks, and didn't drink any of it, but that just seems like common sense.
You're connected to the network of customer A, and have to send an e-mail to customer B.
... So you connect to your own firm's mail server and use SMTP AUTH to authenticate yourself and send mail through it. If customer A has network nazis working for it, you connect to your own firm's webmail service.
So they're supposed to use Debian unstable for their production server?
For simple packages, it's not usually a big deal to rebuild the package against Stable. Sometimes it will rebuild with no tweaks, but usually one just has to edit the debian/control file and make the build/install deps match what's in Stable. I haven't tried doing this with Subversion, but I wouldn't imagine that it's particularly complicated (i.e. dependent on lib versions not present in Stable).
I would rather not allow spammers to use my domains in forged emails. My 20k+ users will just have to use SMTP AUTH if they're not on the same network as our outbound mail relays. This isn't a problem, since we already require it for people who aren't directly dialled in. I don't see any reason why "power users" can't deal with an additional setting in their mail client.
Cell providers and ISP's are going to fight this every step of the way because of the competition this could pose...
Not ISPs... Why would ISPs want to be stuck trying to resell DSL and Cable as their only option for broadband? As someone who runs a decent-sized independent ISP, I can tell you that this technology is very interesting to me. We've been around for 10+ years, and have a great reputation with our customers, but we're losing people to broadband because we don't have anything faster than 56k dialup or (bleah) ISDN to offer.
We're looking at various ways to deliver wireless broadband to the home, but the current generation of technology is not ideal. It will be interesting to see how this new standard pans out.
The girls I know would never be able to work a TIVO, guaranteed.
Either you're hopelessly mysoginistic, or you really need to stop hanging out with barnyard animals. TiVo is much simpler than a VCR. It's barely more complicated than watching TV by itself.
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I can state without reservation that the open source tools you mention (MRTG/RRD, OpenNMS) are mediocre to the point of unusability.
Can't say anything about OpenNMS, but I'm surprised that more people haven't heard of Cricket. Scales well, and the configuration isn't too bad once you get past the initial learning curve. Uses RRDs for sample storage. I'm in the process of phasing out MRTG in favor of Cricket at the ISP I run.
I lived in NJ through driving age. Now I live in PA.
I've been stuck in Harrisburg since September. There's light at the end of the tunnel, though: my wife and I are moving back to New England this Summer. Pennsylvania seems determined to lose all of its intellectual and professional capital.
I saw a billboard on I83 the other day which said something along the lines of, "The crisis will settle down when all the doctors have left Pennsylvania." My wife's a doc, and the crappiness of her career path options here is just one of many reasons why we're getting the hell out of here ASAP.
Hard as it may be to believe, some people don't share the same fascinations and need a little context when some wonderful thing happens on Project Blurfty Sprackett.
I was actually serious, though my question had a flip tone to it. I would understand if the article had been about Project Blurfty Sprackett 0.3 on SourceForge or something, but you have a low enough UID that I have a hard time believing that you've never seen any of the many articles about Evolution over the last few years.
If you do a/. search with 'Evolution' as the search string and 'Ximian' as the topic, there are 11 articles about Evolution over the last few years, and those're just articles specifically about Evolution. It's been written about extensively in lots of other places, both electronic and paper.
Anyhow... I guess my reason for writing this reply is not to deride you, but to suggest that you read a little more widely than you apparently do now. It's good to learn about new things.
I think they still do that today and if somebody went public with how stupid this really is, I'm sure they would get the same treatment.
They don't actually. I've been through a number of large airports on the Eastern Seaboard, and they stopped doing that a bit before TSA took over, if I recall correctly. It's certainly been over a year, although I still have a few sets of broken clippers to show for that time period.
I agree that it was ridiculous, though. I remember going through security in Pittsburgh, only to find that there were normal, sharp-pointed-nail-file clippers on sale in the convenience store.
You can easily simulate UPS service by simply throwing a computer downstairs a few times. No one should use it for breakable things.
Having worked at UPS in the year between high school and college, I wholeheartedly second this. Either don't use UPS for fragile stuff, or BUY INSURANCE!!!
I personally didn't abuse packages (of course not!), but I saw people doing nutty stuff all the time. Kicking boxes in frustration or boredom, throwing smaller boxes up and over the 'walls' that guys in Load make while loading the trailers... etc. I used to work with one asshole who thought it was fun to make a game of guessing the 'keystone box' for a wall of packages. Guess right, and the whole wall falls down. I'm sure I don't need to spell out what happened to any poorly-packed boxes on the bottom of the piles.
That game lasted until he didn't warn me one night and I caught a box full of glass jars with my head (I still want to track down the bastard who put it on TOP of a wall...). I got a trip to the hospital and he got a trip to whichever crappy jobs the supervisor could think of (hard to fire union members).
But I'd still like to see SPEWS sued into the stone age.
Show me one mail admin who was forced to use SPEWS.
Any admin who relies completely on one RBL (especially SPEWS) to decide whether or not to block incoming mail deserves to have his MCSE certificate shoved up his ass.
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Touched a nerve, did I? Well, I wasn't particularly looking to win friend and/or influence people by making that post.
I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties.
"Hey everyone, there Annirak sitting by (him|her|it)self in the corner! Let's go screw with (him|her|it) by making a joke and watching (him|her|it)self get worked into a tizzy trying to correct our faulty logic!"
As an aside, one trait of people with Asperger's Syndrome (from the DSM-IV), is "Low to no apparent sense of humor". Look it up, you might learn something about yourself.
especially when compared to hard-coding form validation in Perl/CGI.
Hard-Code No More!
I discovered this when I was putting together a web-based interface to our PowerDNS DB. Saved me lots of time, and we don't have to worry about our support staff putting bogus information into DNS.
Any opinions on power dns?
I loves it.
mysql> select count(id) from domains;
+-----------+
| count(id) |
+-----------+
| 809 |
+-----------+
809 domains (I run an ISP/Webhosting co.) in a MySQL DB which is replicated across 3 machines. We switched over from BIND about a month ago.
Uptime: 25.4 days Queries/second, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 10.9, 10.8, 10.9. Max queries/second: 36.5
Cache hitrate, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 53%, 52%, 53%
Backend query cache hitrate, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 58%, 58%, 58%
Backend query load, 1, 5, 10 minute averages: 8.04, 8.45, 8.51. Max queries/second: 28
Total queries: 21330758. Question/answer latency: 0.067ms
Running 2.9.16 on Debian Woody servers. Rock-solid stable, quick, and I love the scalability. I wrote a nice set of Perl classes for DB manipulation, and tied it all into our provisioning system. It was easy with the MySQL backend.
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(Assuming, of course, that you're smart enough to not go skinny dipping in a random hotspring....)
Please enlighten this dumb city slicker about why that's a bad thing. I spent a couple of weeks out near Jackson Hole, and the locals showed me a few isolated springs to hang out in. I wore swim trunks, and didn't drink any of it, but that just seems like common sense.
Problem solved.
So they're supposed to use Debian unstable for their production server?
For simple packages, it's not usually a big deal to rebuild the package against Stable. Sometimes it will rebuild with no tweaks, but usually one just has to edit the debian/control file and make the build/install deps match what's in Stable. I haven't tried doing this with Subversion, but I wouldn't imagine that it's particularly complicated (i.e. dependent on lib versions not present in Stable).
Vacuous Post, Noob.
I don't see it as an anti-spam system, I see it as an anti-forgeing system.
That's good, because it's not being positioned as an anti-spam system. It's being positioned as an anti-forging system.
http://spf.pobox.com/howithelps.html
I would rather not allow spammers to use my domains in forged emails. My 20k+ users will just have to use SMTP AUTH if they're not on the same network as our outbound mail relays. This isn't a problem, since we already require it for people who aren't directly dialled in. I don't see any reason why "power users" can't deal with an additional setting in their mail client.
Cell providers and ISP's are going to fight this every step of the way because of the competition this could pose...
Not ISPs... Why would ISPs want to be stuck trying to resell DSL and Cable as their only option for broadband? As someone who runs a decent-sized independent ISP, I can tell you that this technology is very interesting to me. We've been around for 10+ years, and have a great reputation with our customers, but we're losing people to broadband because we don't have anything faster than 56k dialup or (bleah) ISDN to offer.
We're looking at various ways to deliver wireless broadband to the home, but the current generation of technology is not ideal. It will be interesting to see how this new standard pans out.
... is one of my favorites. I also like the shotgun /makeup applicator and the electric hammer.
"Homer, you've got it set to whore!"
In British English the w ("double-u") is pronounced "wuh".
..."?
So when you are in the unpleasant situation of having to read an URL aloud to someone, do you say "wuh wuh wuh dot
The girls I know would never be able to work a TIVO, guaranteed.
Either you're hopelessly mysoginistic, or you really need to stop hanging out with barnyard animals. TiVo is much simpler than a VCR. It's barely more complicated than watching TV by itself.
Caffeine stimulates the pancreas to produce insulin, thereby reducing the amount of glucose in your bloodstream.
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... irregardless of the benefits of said change.
There is no such word. The word you're looking for is regardless.
Sorry, pet peeve. Apparently I'm not alone.
I can state without reservation that the open source tools you mention (MRTG/RRD, OpenNMS) are mediocre to the point of unusability.
Can't say anything about OpenNMS, but I'm surprised that more people haven't heard of Cricket. Scales well, and the configuration isn't too bad once you get past the initial learning curve. Uses RRDs for sample storage. I'm in the process of phasing out MRTG in favor of Cricket at the ISP I run.
I lived in NJ through driving age. Now I live in PA.
I've been stuck in Harrisburg since September. There's light at the end of the tunnel, though: my wife and I are moving back to New England this Summer. Pennsylvania seems determined to lose all of its intellectual and professional capital.
I saw a billboard on I83 the other day which said something along the lines of, "The crisis will settle down when all the doctors have left Pennsylvania." My wife's a doc, and the crappiness of her career path options here is just one of many reasons why we're getting the hell out of here ASAP.
Hard as it may be to believe, some people don't share the same fascinations and need a little context when some wonderful thing happens on Project Blurfty Sprackett.
/. search with 'Evolution' as the search string and 'Ximian' as the topic, there are 11 articles about Evolution over the last few years, and those're just articles specifically about Evolution. It's been written about extensively in lots of other places, both electronic and paper.
I was actually serious, though my question had a flip tone to it. I would understand if the article had been about Project Blurfty Sprackett 0.3 on SourceForge or something, but you have a low enough UID that I have a hard time believing that you've never seen any of the many articles about Evolution over the last few years.
If you do a
Anyhow... I guess my reason for writing this reply is not to deride you, but to suggest that you read a little more widely than you apparently do now. It's good to learn about new things.
I've never heard of Evolution, and had to dig around a bit to discover that it's a PIM.
Have you been living under a rock for the last three years?
I think they still do that today and if somebody went public with how stupid this really is, I'm sure they would get the same treatment.
They don't actually. I've been through a number of large airports on the Eastern Seaboard, and they stopped doing that a bit before TSA took over, if I recall correctly. It's certainly been over a year, although I still have a few sets of broken clippers to show for that time period.
I agree that it was ridiculous, though. I remember going through security in Pittsburgh, only to find that there were normal, sharp-pointed-nail-file clippers on sale in the convenience store.
http://spf.pobox.com/
From the above, it is obvious that I use linux mostly at the server level, not at a user level.
Why do you have X installed on a server?
You can easily simulate UPS service by simply throwing a computer downstairs a few times. No one should use it for breakable things.
Having worked at UPS in the year between high school and college, I wholeheartedly second this. Either don't use UPS for fragile stuff, or BUY INSURANCE!!!
I personally didn't abuse packages (of course not!), but I saw people doing nutty stuff all the time. Kicking boxes in frustration or boredom, throwing smaller boxes up and over the 'walls' that guys in Load make while loading the trailers... etc. I used to work with one asshole who thought it was fun to make a game of guessing the 'keystone box' for a wall of packages. Guess right, and the whole wall falls down. I'm sure I don't need to spell out what happened to any poorly-packed boxes on the bottom of the piles.
That game lasted until he didn't warn me one night and I caught a box full of glass jars with my head (I still want to track down the bastard who put it on TOP of a wall...). I got a trip to the hospital and he got a trip to whichever crappy jobs the supervisor could think of (hard to fire union members).
And how do you verify that the "FROM:" address is actually in the network being served?
SMTP+SPF
But I'd still like to see SPEWS sued into the stone age.
Show me one mail admin who was forced to use SPEWS.
Any admin who relies completely on one RBL (especially SPEWS) to decide whether or not to block incoming mail deserves to have his MCSE certificate shoved up his ass.