"Do you admit that you sold these products to businesses that were crucial to the infrastructure of America, and yet did nothing to enforce or even implement the basest security of Macros, Mr. Gates?"
It's a bit like, do we prosecute the person who sold the gun to the kid, out of spite, or do we get off of our duffs, and go make guns illegal (or at least harder to own). Which would save more lives, and ultimately make more sense?
""Smith admitted, among other things, to writing the 'Melissa' macro virus, illegally accessing American Online for the purpose of posting the virus onto cyberspace, and destroying the personal computers he used to post 'Melissa,' " Bubb wrote"
"Posting onto Cyberspace" is as valid in this case as "making the men not quite well feeling" would be in a murder case, except less so since "cyberspace" is not a valid term for email..
Also: " on April 1 that central processing units from two computer systems had been removed. Police seized the remaining components of the systems, including power cables, monitors, monitor cables, floppy disks and writable CD-ROMs."
I'm reminded of the people who hit enter, intstead of letting wordwrap handle their comments on Slashdot.. The central processing units led me to bevlieve they had found two complete cases, with motherboards, expansion cards, power supplies, etc, except with the CPU socket empty.. Oh, no. The "monitor, monitor cables" (yes, monitor cables are somehow important evidence, they could've just siezed the HD) "floppy disks and burnt CD-ROMs."
Where are the HDs? Where are the expansion cards, etc? I think these st00pids meant the computer was removed from the peripherals. Sad. Pathetic. I hope this kid gets off scott free.
Certainly, their evidence gathering "methods" must have at least destroyed the evidence itself. I'd personally convince one of them (people who watch the evidence) to have a bulk demagnetiser around the "CPU" all the time to stop the viruses jumping to their systems.
Big Businesses seem to love sueing people when they have problems they can't explain.
"But these Microsoft marketting people told me NT was good, so I told my IS and IT managers to use it.. Now this! We mu sue!!!"
Disgusting!
1) I never noticed any slowing of the internet as a whole (whereas the sendmail worm of the 80s affected actual network speeds all over the Darpa-net).
2) Postfix MTA didn't receive one mail with a doc attachment. It if had, it would have at least done something sensible like message me whens everal thousand outgoing emails started happening.
3) Clueless IS people who don't notice the network bandwidth is being eaten by hundreds of thousands of SMTP trasnfers should be fired.
4) Netscape Communicator mail, PINE, and Eudora all have no problems with this (I use them, millions of others do).
The problem only affected a fraction of the "true" internet population, because not many people use Outlook 9[78]... And of those, the people who were not trained about their business machines were already a liability to their business (re: the stupids earlier on Slashdot).
I hope Businesses grow up about responsibility, perhaps by demanind service contract, or perhaps by listening to their technical staff.
That would be the whole Dreamcast babble from yesterday. You really need to read more often:-) Except someone ported on of the BSDs (OpenBSD I'd assume, based on their page's logos)..
FreeBSD seems to be the "ultra-scale" x86 specific BSD, so expect it to not be ported soon. NetBSD is the ultra-portable one. And OpenBSD is the ultra-secure, semi-portable (forked from NetBSD) one.
I'd still rather use Linux, at least until Hurd becomes cool:-)
Why on earth should a graphics problem affect the kernel?
Can we say, crap design?
My friend installed NT on a system with an ATI driver card.... Well, that caused consisten bluescreens, too.
How to avoid said problem?
--> Boot into a nice command line. ---... Ooops.. OS/2 could do that, with mooking. NT can't.
I guess cleaner OS abstraction really is smarter. I LOVE how Linux lets me have my X session over on virtual terminal 7.. In the mean time, I do whatever I want in the other 5 available text terminals (the one is blocked with stderr messages from X)..
It's also kinda nasty that he can't telnet in or otherwise remote manage the system to remove the drivers and schedule a reboot. But I guess that's "MS clean design" for you. Reminds me of a char with one seat. Sickening.
I was just reading over the specs for Xanadu, when I came across a feature called double-linking. Why would this shock/suprise me? Have you ever read a book called "Earthweb" ?... I found a copy at the library, and read it. Standard Sci-fi, but predicted a large amount about the web, the end of Microsoft, the privitisation of gov't, etc. Some food for thought.
Now the really interesting thing was a comment at one point that "the first version of the web didn't even have dual link support." Hmmmm.. On a side note, you'll win 50 books from Baen if you can tell the proper tale of how Microsoft was destroyed in the early 20th century. www.the-earthweb.com
Go on, it won't hurt to read about it a bit. You might even think some:-)
" BASH and Xemacs : I don't know what the hell you would need these for since you can find text editors for the Mac like gum on sidewalks."
Bash is not a text editor.
" Games? Over 7 of the top 10 games listed by PCData research are available or are being ported to the Mac"
I thought you said you wanted to do work.
"Compilers and all that sh*t? Go to the store and buy it. Don't just sit at home and assume all your life. "
But if you do sit at home and work (ie: penniless programmer), the GNU compilers are free. You can't out-price free products.
"Run Scripts and schedule tasks: AppleScript, nuff said. The Mac can even turn itself on/off and run jobs without additional hardware "
What if I want to use Perl, Python (it rules), TCL, etc?... No choice:~(.. That's bad. Besides, my systems are never down. Why would they be off? Hellooo, RC5!!!!
"I'm usually addressing people who haven't really used a Mac (one that that was built in the last three years)"
I don't want to use a Mac; please stop trying to sway my opinion by mention things I don't care about. I am a big boy now, and I can make my own decisions. I have used "recent" Macs (a friend has a Bondi-blue. Cute as a bug, but I hate the keyboard)..
Btw, Window Manager "f*cking around" hasn't ever happened to me. Have you used a recent (ie: past year or so) distribution of Linux? No? Aww, why not? I like trying new things.. Don't you?
Besides, KDE w/ Icewm in place of kwm is really nifty.:-) OS/2 Warp 4 feel.. Ahh.. OS/2, I loved thee once.. Whelp, off to reading more comments..
Little reality check, Budski. A 68k Mac in 1986 could not run System 7.5, as System 7.5 wasn't out in 1986:^)
Now PLEASE don't leap into the "bahaha Win98 blahak 10 + years older Mac is better" because you're mixing both the hardware and software issues into an easy to digest sound byte.
The issue here is not: "I love MacOS. It rules. Windows sucks. You suck if you run Windows." That's just flamebait.
The issue here is: "Wow, cheap motherboards for the PowerPC, and no Apple mucking about."
This is a good thing, I guess, since we can all run LinuxPPC or BeOS on a the fast PowerPC platform (without the MacOS, we'd just buy an Apple box if we wanted that).
Apple has always been a hardware company, selling hardware. Their software has generally been good because they don't push dates and force things like Microsoft. I do respect their software.
HOWEVER the MacOS interface is (to me at least) like a scaled up, glorifed word proccessor. I don't like it, and I'm entitled to that opinion without you screaming about Pentuims and Macs. Will you scream at me because I not only don't use a Mac, but I also don't use Microsoft products except for that Win98 partition meant for Quake? (I hope Linux 3dfx support gets faster)
The thing that gets me most is that a 1986 386 running Linux (1.2, 2.0, 2.2, etc) is probably more stable than BOTH those machines you listed >:-> (poke)
My Firewall machine (Pentuin 200 w/MMX + 96mb EDO ram) has never given me a problem. I plugged in my AHA-2940 U2W, plugged in the SCSI drives, and it worked (kernel recompile to add AHA-7xxx driver).. The IDE HD worked with less work, since IDE support was in the kernel. Any network card problems? Hell no, the PCI NICs I use just went it. As long as I add the driver, Linux finds it all without work.
Not to mention uptimes in the range of months (haven't gone past because I either end up upgrading the kernel, or fiddlind with the machine to add more hardware [read: HD space] to it)..
WOW! Now then, you suck too! Now that you're done being a weird flambaiter, perhaps you'd like to go back to making more strange sounding names for your marketting department, loser!:-)
So this is the first person to be actually convicted of doing wrong for running a pirate website? They must've tuned up the legal system to actually convict someone of piracy after, what, 5 years of public knowledge of the internet. I'm guessing we can expect the second conviction around 2001, if we're lucky.
The funny thing is, pirate webpages are often not working, and real pirates tend to use FTP servers.
Dateline 1900: The United States government considers taxing phone calls because telegram communication is suffering a slump.
US senator: "We need to protect our Telegram communications into the next century. It is an essential business for our economy."
Telegram operator: "My job skills at typing in morse code don't apply to this new world of phone communication. Ma Bell has not offered to hire me, so I feel it is my duty to protect my job."
--- Seriously, sending letters by paper means is troublesome, expensive, and only makes sense if you are in an under-developed part of the world. The US has not legal ground to tax email, any more than the RIAA can tax me for playing an MP3 on my stereo.
This doesn't even touch the fact that a) the mail server is run at the cost of the owner and b) the protocols and standards are used in every country.
How will they regulate this? "If our advanced NSA (and now FBI) sniffers catch email from you going through the internet, we will fine you for tax evasion!"
- Another Canadian citizen shocked by the US gov't.
Perhaps proper training would be more effective.
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"And someone should explain why the Caps Lock light is often on the opposite end of the keyboard from the Caps Lock button. "
This funny, because where the keyboard LEDs are located now provides a nice, standard, centralised location for keyboard info. Have I had any problems with it? Not especially. The only instance I can think of comes from a friend, whose girlfriend was, frankly, computer illiterate. We built a computer for her family. He'd finished setting ICQ for her, and password protected it. The password is, of course, case sensitive. Some hours later, after returning home, he receives a frantic phone call from her. She littery yells for 5 minutes and seems quite distraught. He asks her the problem. "ICQ won't let me on, even though I typed in my password properly." His responce, "look at the caps lock light." She then became very quiet, and said, "never mind.":-)
It seems to me the only people who have problems with keyboards are people who haven't used them much, or just don't know how to type. As for scroll lock being a useless appendage (along with pause, and sysrq), I use it in Linux all the time! Although, I must say, I used pause in DOS where I now use scroll lock in Linux, but that's just a function of proper terminal emulation.
I just wish numlock would stay on in Linux without me having to edit kernel source and/or place setleds in the startup scripts. Damnit, I use it to enter numbers quickly!
Stop killing me with laughter! THIS RULES!~ Ahh! At least you haven't stolen my one other great radio idea. Please, keep a backlog of these so I can collect (steal) them all!;-)
Note: this is not for the faint of heart, and probably involves overhauling your mail setup.
I've also looked into setting up something like that. It came down to using something like LDAP which is scaleable, standard, and OS-nonspecific for mail users. Then I had Qmail and Cyrus on the backend. I applied the Qmail LDAP patch, allowing Qmail to use LDAP for its user list. For Cyrus, there is another pwcheck file here. It adds the ability for it to authenticate against an LDAP server. Finally (yay!) we need the Qmail/Cyrus glue (as Qmail uses a slow mail format compared to Cyrus, and has no IMAP support [yick!]).
Incoming mail goes to Qmail, which uses scripts to deliver to Cyrus (users LDAP listed). User logins go through Cyrus server programs (which use LDAP auth), and can get their messages that way. This should also support virtual domains.
All in all, it sounds good;-) I have yet to implement it (I'm going slowly and testing every step. Right now I'm converting my user base to LDAP, then I'll update Cyrus, etc).
:-) Not to miss the point here, but Universal wouldn't have had me see the advertisement either way. I'm using this cutting edge piece of technology thing called a proxy! Yes, you, too can have the fun of not looking at advertisements. It also doubles as a fun way of letting all my LAN machines load webpages quickly. www.junkbuster.com for the plain-jane ver, www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/ for the blank-image patched ver + central blocklist:-)
Ok, that is WAY over the fucking line. I've hated the persecution you religous bigots lard over on us NON-religous people. You see a god? GOOD FOR YOU! I DON'T!!! Public schools are PUBLIC. You like prayer? Go find a religous school. Canada has many catholic schools. When I was in elementary, I hated having to be forced to stand silently while the religous prayed. It's discrimination. Freedom to worship, not freedom to be FORCED to worship. The callously easy nature with which you seem to imply that no prayer in school is a good thing shocks me. Children have 18 other hours in the day to go prostrate themselves before a god or gods. Or do you not consider childrne sentient enough to be allowed to choose to not be religous?
Welcome to the real world. I'm amazed that the manager fellow would try and enforce this. In my experience, the only people who enforce obviously bad rules like that are either: a) paying lip service to it or b) ahrdents who have poles of varrying lengths in their nether regions. Please. Swearing? Fuck me. I fucking learned to say shit whenever I fucked up when I was 5! It was how people responded to a situation where there was a problem. Sex and nudity? Uhm, let's think. When I was 8, I didn't get "hot and bothered" over the sight of women naked. The thought was, to me, revolting. Why? Puberty had not hit. The mind doesn't appreciate the opposite sex until it does. That changed when I became older, but was a non-issue for the first 14 or so years of my life. Why force it to be an issue? Canada is a lot more liberal than the States (thankfully), so I've avoided a lot of the fallouw of those Mayflower immigrants that many US people claim to be decended from. They were puritans, why be proud of that? A moral highground is an illusion, and is used only to make one's self feel higher than others. Usually, these dracion rules stem from a person's own uncomfortableness with the material presented. Just because you can't handle fucking swears, doesn't mean I have bleep myself. The French CBC in Canada has shown movies containing more skin than I've ever seen in a month of R-rated movies. Pornopgraphy is freely available, as are full movies, and programs for Windows (Linux programs seem conspicously free, and if they do cost money, it's always worth it). Time for me to read "1984" and "The Rape Of the A.P.E." again, and see what difference there is between those books and reality. Is I can find one.
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You'd think they would at least prosecute MS.
"Do you admit that you sold these products to businesses that were crucial to the infrastructure of America, and yet did nothing to enforce or even implement the basest security of Macros, Mr. Gates?"
It's a bit like, do we prosecute the person who sold the gun to the kid, out of spite, or do we get off of our duffs, and go make guns illegal (or at least harder to own). Which would save more lives, and ultimately make more sense?
""Smith admitted, among other things, to writing the 'Melissa' macro virus, illegally accessing American Online for the purpose of posting the
virus onto cyberspace, and destroying the personal computers he used to post 'Melissa,' " Bubb wrote"
"Posting onto Cyberspace" is as valid in this case as "making the men not quite well feeling" would be in a murder case, except less so since "cyberspace" is not a valid term for email..
Also:
" on April 1 that central processing units from two computer systems had been removed. Police seized the remaining components of the systems, including power cables, monitors, monitor cables, floppy disks and writable CD-ROMs."
I'm reminded of the people who hit enter, intstead of letting wordwrap handle their comments on Slashdot.. The central processing units led me to bevlieve they had found two complete cases, with motherboards, expansion cards, power supplies, etc, except with the CPU socket empty.. Oh, no. The "monitor, monitor cables" (yes, monitor cables are somehow important evidence, they could've just siezed the HD) "floppy disks and burnt CD-ROMs."
Where are the HDs? Where are the expansion cards, etc? I think these st00pids meant the computer was removed from the peripherals. Sad. Pathetic. I hope this kid gets off scott free.
Certainly, their evidence gathering "methods" must have at least destroyed the evidence itself. I'd personally convince one of them (people who watch the evidence) to have a bulk demagnetiser around the "CPU" all the time to stop the viruses jumping to their systems.
Big Businesses seem to love sueing people when they have problems they can't explain.
... And of those, the people who were not trained about their business machines were already a liability to their business (re: the stupids earlier on Slashdot).
"But these Microsoft marketting people told me NT was good, so I told my IS and IT managers to use it.. Now this! We mu sue!!!"
Disgusting!
1) I never noticed any slowing of the internet as a whole (whereas the sendmail worm of the 80s affected actual network speeds all over the Darpa-net).
2) Postfix MTA didn't receive one mail with a doc attachment. It if had, it would have at least done something sensible like message me whens everal thousand outgoing emails started happening.
3) Clueless IS people who don't notice the network bandwidth is being eaten by hundreds of thousands of SMTP trasnfers should be fired.
4) Netscape Communicator mail, PINE, and Eudora all have no problems with this (I use them, millions of others do).
The problem only affected a fraction of the "true" internet population, because not many people use Outlook 9[78]
I hope Businesses grow up about responsibility, perhaps by demanind service contract, or perhaps by listening to their technical staff.
That would be the whole Dreamcast babble from yesterday. You really need to read more often :-) Except someone ported on of the BSDs (OpenBSD I'd assume, based on their page's logos)..
:-)
FreeBSD seems to be the "ultra-scale" x86 specific BSD, so expect it to not be ported soon.
NetBSD is the ultra-portable one.
And OpenBSD is the ultra-secure, semi-portable (forked from NetBSD) one.
I'd still rather use Linux, at least until Hurd becomes cool
Why on earth should a graphics problem affect the kernel?
.. Well, that caused consisten bluescreens, too.
Can we say, crap design?
My friend installed NT on a system with an ATI driver card..
How to avoid said problem?
--> Boot into a nice command line.
---... Ooops.. OS/2 could do that, with mooking. NT can't.
I guess cleaner OS abstraction really is smarter.
I LOVE how Linux lets me have my X session over on virtual terminal 7.. In the mean time, I do whatever I want in the other 5 available text terminals (the one is blocked with stderr messages from X)..
It's also kinda nasty that he can't telnet in or otherwise remote manage the system to remove the drivers and schedule a reboot. But I guess that's "MS clean design" for you. Reminds me of a char with one seat. Sickening.
I was just reading over the specs for Xanadu, when I came across a feature called double-linking. Why would this shock/suprise me? Have you ever read a book called "Earthweb" ? ... I found a copy at the library, and read it. Standard Sci-fi, but predicted a large amount about the web, the end of Microsoft, the privitisation of gov't, etc. Some food for thought.
:-)
Now the really interesting thing was a comment at one point that "the first version of the web didn't even have dual link support." Hmmmm..
On a side note, you'll win 50 books from Baen if you can tell the proper tale of how Microsoft was destroyed in the early 20th century. www.the-earthweb.com
Go on, it won't hurt to read about it a bit. You might even think some
" BASH and Xemacs : I don't know what the hell you would need these for since you can find text editors for the Mac like gum on sidewalks."
... No choice :~(.. That's bad.
:-) OS/2 Warp 4 feel.. Ahh.. OS/2, I loved thee once.. Whelp, off to reading more comments..
Bash is not a text editor.
" Games? Over 7 of the top 10 games listed by PCData research are available or are being ported to the Mac"
I thought you said you wanted to do work.
"Compilers and all that sh*t? Go to the store and buy it. Don't just sit at home and assume all your life. "
But if you do sit at home and work (ie: penniless programmer), the GNU compilers are free. You can't out-price free products.
"Run Scripts and schedule tasks: AppleScript, nuff said. The Mac can even turn itself on/off and run jobs without additional hardware "
What if I want to use Perl, Python (it rules), TCL, etc?
Besides, my systems are never down. Why would they be off? Hellooo, RC5!!!!
"I'm usually addressing people who haven't really used a Mac (one that that was built in the last three years)"
I don't want to use a Mac; please stop trying to sway my opinion by mention things I don't care about. I am a big boy now, and I can make my own decisions. I have used "recent" Macs (a friend has a Bondi-blue. Cute as a bug, but I hate the keyboard)..
Btw, Window Manager "f*cking around" hasn't ever happened to me. Have you used a recent (ie: past year or so) distribution of Linux? No? Aww, why not? I like trying new things.. Don't you?
Besides, KDE w/ Icewm in place of kwm is really nifty.
Little reality check, Budski. A 68k Mac in 1986 could not run System 7.5, as System 7.5 wasn't out in 1986 :^)
Now PLEASE don't leap into the "bahaha Win98 blahak 10 + years older Mac is better" because you're mixing both the hardware and software issues into an easy to digest sound byte.
The issue here is not: "I love MacOS. It rules. Windows sucks. You suck if you run Windows." That's just flamebait.
The issue here is: "Wow, cheap motherboards for the PowerPC, and no Apple mucking about."
This is a good thing, I guess, since we can all run LinuxPPC or BeOS on a the fast PowerPC platform (without the MacOS, we'd just buy an Apple box if we wanted that).
Apple has always been a hardware company, selling hardware. Their software has generally been good because they don't push dates and force things like Microsoft. I do respect their software.
HOWEVER the MacOS interface is (to me at least) like a scaled up, glorifed word proccessor. I don't like it, and I'm entitled to that opinion without you screaming about Pentuims and Macs. Will you scream at me because I not only don't use a Mac, but I also don't use Microsoft products except for that Win98 partition meant for Quake? (I hope Linux 3dfx support gets faster)
The thing that gets me most is that a 1986 386 running Linux (1.2, 2.0, 2.2, etc) is probably more stable than BOTH those machines you listed >:-> (poke)
My Firewall machine (Pentuin 200 w/MMX + 96mb EDO ram) has never given me a problem. I plugged in my AHA-2940 U2W, plugged in the SCSI drives, and it worked (kernel recompile to add AHA-7xxx driver).. The IDE HD worked with less work, since IDE support was in the kernel. Any network card problems? Hell no, the PCI NICs I use just went it. As long as I add the driver, Linux finds it all without work.
Not to mention uptimes in the range of months (haven't gone past because I either end up upgrading the kernel, or fiddlind with the machine to add more hardware [read: HD space] to it)..
Windoes Scandisk/Defrag doesn't work in NT...
Etc..
Lots of Win9x software just spews or hoses the system under NT.
Heck, my friend (NT guy) likes to entertain us with stories of how he could poke arbitraty parts of ram.
WOW! Now then, you suck too! Now that you're done being a weird flambaiter, perhaps you'd like to go back to making more strange sounding names for your marketting department, loser! :-)
Wth! Lineo? Sounds some European chocolate. Why on earth are they in the computer business? Embeded chips in cookies not profitable enough!?!
:-)
Hopefully they'll help the Mozilla people, because that browser makes me hard just thinking about it.. DEATH TO IE! >:->
So this is the first person to be actually convicted of doing wrong for running a pirate website? They must've tuned up the legal system to actually convict someone of piracy after, what, 5 years of public knowledge of the internet. I'm guessing we can expect the second conviction around 2001, if we're lucky.
The funny thing is, pirate webpages are often not working, and real pirates tend to use FTP servers.
It's strafe, you momo. Strife was just a bad game based on the Doom engine :-)
Faggot lover?
Why are you talking about loving a bundle of sticks? Have you never put in the work of chopping up a faggot of wood? It's hard work!
Btw, discrimination and hate like you have shown is not cool.
Dateline 1900:
The United States government considers taxing phone calls because telegram communication is suffering a slump.
US senator: "We need to protect our Telegram communications into the next century. It is an essential business for our economy."
Telegram operator: "My job skills at typing in morse code don't apply to this new world of phone communication. Ma Bell has not offered to hire me, so I feel it is my duty to protect my job."
---
Seriously, sending letters by paper means is troublesome, expensive, and only makes sense if you are in an under-developed part of the world. The US has not legal ground to tax email, any more than the RIAA can tax me for playing an MP3 on my stereo.
This doesn't even touch the fact that a) the mail server is run at the cost of the owner and b) the protocols and standards are used in every country.
How will they regulate this? "If our advanced NSA (and now FBI) sniffers catch email from you going through the internet, we will fine you for tax evasion!"
- Another Canadian citizen shocked by the US gov't.
"And someone should explain why the Caps Lock light is often on the opposite end of the keyboard from the Caps Lock button. "
:-)
This funny, because where the keyboard LEDs are located now provides a nice, standard, centralised location for keyboard info. Have I had any problems with it? Not especially. The only instance I can think of comes from a friend, whose girlfriend was, frankly, computer illiterate. We built a computer for her family. He'd finished setting ICQ for her, and password protected it. The password is, of course, case sensitive. Some hours later, after returning home, he receives a frantic phone call from her. She littery yells for 5 minutes and seems quite distraught. He asks her the problem. "ICQ won't let me on, even though I typed in my password properly." His responce, "look at the caps lock light." She then became very quiet, and said, "never mind."
It seems to me the only people who have problems with keyboards are people who haven't used them much, or just don't know how to type. As for scroll lock being a useless appendage (along with pause, and sysrq), I use it in Linux all the time! Although, I must say, I used pause in DOS where I now use scroll lock in Linux, but that's just a function of proper terminal emulation.
I just wish numlock would stay on in Linux without me having to edit kernel source and/or place setleds in the startup scripts. Damnit, I use it to enter numbers quickly!
Well, this may seem obvious, but someone has to say it. Is it stripped, or is it full of debug info? :-)
Otherwise, nary a clue, I use Slackware (libc5 still).
You've read my mind! This is exactly the sort of multi-tiered password system I came to over time. ;-)
I think I'll document this now
Stop killing me with laughter! THIS RULES!~ Ahh! At least you haven't stolen my one other great radio idea. Please, keep a backlog of these so I can collect (steal) them all! ;-)
Note: this is not for the faint of heart, and probably involves overhauling your mail setup.
;-) I have yet to implement it (I'm going slowly and testing every step. Right now I'm converting my user base to LDAP, then I'll update Cyrus, etc).
I've also looked into setting up something like that. It came down to using something like LDAP which is scaleable, standard, and OS-nonspecific for mail users. Then I had Qmail and Cyrus on the backend. I applied the Qmail LDAP patch, allowing Qmail to use LDAP for its user list. For Cyrus, there is another pwcheck file here. It adds the ability for it to authenticate against an LDAP server. Finally (yay!) we need the Qmail/Cyrus glue (as Qmail uses a slow mail format compared to Cyrus, and has no IMAP support [yick!]).
Incoming mail goes to Qmail, which uses scripts to deliver to Cyrus (users LDAP listed). User logins go through Cyrus server programs (which use LDAP auth), and can get their messages that way. This should also support virtual domains.
All in all, it sounds good
Have fun.
:-) Not to miss the point here, but Universal wouldn't have had me see the advertisement either way. I'm using this cutting edge piece of technology thing called a proxy! Yes, you, too can have the fun of not looking at advertisements. It also doubles as a fun way of letting all my LAN machines load webpages quickly. www.junkbuster.com for the plain-jane ver, :-)
www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/ for the blank-image patched ver + central blocklist
Ok, that is WAY over the fucking line. I've hated the persecution you religous bigots lard over on us NON-religous people. You see a god? GOOD FOR YOU! I DON'T!!! Public schools are PUBLIC. You like prayer? Go find a religous school. Canada has many catholic schools. When I was in elementary, I hated having to be forced to stand silently while the religous prayed. It's discrimination. Freedom to worship, not freedom to be FORCED to worship. The callously easy nature with which you seem to imply that no prayer in school is a good thing shocks me. Children have 18 other hours in the day to go prostrate themselves before a god or gods. Or do you not consider childrne sentient enough to be allowed to choose to not be religous?
Welcome to the real world. I'm amazed that the manager fellow would try and enforce this. In my experience, the only people who enforce obviously bad rules like that are either: a) paying lip service to it or b) ahrdents who have poles of varrying lengths in their nether regions. Please. Swearing? Fuck me. I fucking learned to say shit whenever I fucked up when I was 5! It was how people responded to a situation where there was a problem. Sex and nudity? Uhm, let's think. When I was 8, I didn't get "hot and bothered" over the sight of women naked. The thought was, to me, revolting. Why? Puberty had not hit. The mind doesn't appreciate the opposite sex until it does. That changed when I became older, but was a non-issue for the first 14 or so years of my life. Why force it to be an issue? Canada is a lot more liberal than the States (thankfully), so I've avoided a lot of the fallouw of those Mayflower immigrants that many US people claim to be decended from. They were puritans, why be proud of that? A moral highground is an illusion, and is used only to make one's self feel higher than others. Usually, these dracion rules stem from a person's own uncomfortableness with the material presented. Just because you can't handle fucking swears, doesn't mean I have bleep myself. The French CBC in Canada has shown movies containing more skin than I've ever seen in a month of R-rated movies. Pornopgraphy is freely available, as are full movies, and programs for Windows (Linux programs seem conspicously free, and if they do cost money, it's always worth it). Time for me to read "1984" and "The Rape Of the A.P.E." again, and see what difference there is between those books and reality. Is I can find one.