Your name in the posting is a link that resolves directly to your email address.
Yes, but:
$ host -t MX mail.acme.com mail.acme.com mail is handled by 10 mail.acme.com. $ telnet mail.acme.com 25 Trying 216.27.178.231... Connected to mail.acme.com. Escape character is '^]'.
Doesn't look like a mail server...
Maybe I should read his article. Not having a mail server does indeed look like an efficient way to fight spam.
I keep my music on hard drives, which I synchronize every now and then. In the coming years, I expect to copy stuff from IDE drives to SATA drives. Later, to whatever replaces SATA.
As for the format, I would recommend FLAC: it is lossless, and open source. So this should last for long. If you see Flac starting to disappear, re-encode to another format, as long as the new format is also both lossless and open source.
Sure, it's bigger than mp3 at 128 kbs, but hard drives are not so expensive.
And of course, do not keep anything with DRM in it. If you can't crack the DRM, there are other paths, like Total Recorder or just going out to your stereo and back into your line input. If done right, the quality loss is minimal, and you only have to do that once. With DRM, you can be pretty certain that a day will come when you won't be able to read it.
Even if the code was semantically "correct" and good, it would still be ugly and painful to write because of all the $@->.
If you put $@->. in your code, I sure understand why you find it painful:-)
# perl -e '$@->.' syntax error at -e line 1, near "->." Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
Or with some more verbosity:
# perl -Mdiagnostics -e '$@->.' syntax error at -e line 1, near "->." Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors (#1)
(F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common reasons include:
A keyword is misspelled.
A semicolon is missing.
A comma is missing.
An opening or closing parenthesis is missing.
An opening or closing brace is missing.
A closing quote is missing.
Often there will be another error message associated with the syntax
error giving more information. (Sometimes it helps to turn on -w.)
The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line when
it decided to give up. Sometimes the actual error is several tokens
before this, because Perl is good at understanding random input.
Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon
the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call
perl -c repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see
if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20
questions>.
Uncaught exception from user code:
syntax error at -e line 1, near "->." Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
Exactly. But I guess that is what so many don't like. As Larry Wall said:
"In trying to make programming predictable, computer scientists have mostly succeeded in making it boring" -- Larry Wall, interview in The Perl Journal, vol. 1 issue 1.
So you installed (or let someone install) a completely new and different system, for 5 normal users, without first:
trying it out on a test machine
using it yourself as your main machine for a while
letting 1 or 2 voluntary test users try it out
evaluating the results
And you expected it to work?
I now systematically install Firefox as the default browser on all machines, but I first used it myself for several months (started with v. 0.7 I think, called Phoenix), and only recommended it to computer-savvy friends. Then I set it up for a few users (it was at version 0.9 by then), and waited a couple more months. Then I asked for their feedback, before deploying it to normal users. (The feedback was positive).
And that's for a simple web browser.
I understand why your employee isn't at that company anymore, but I don't understand why you didn't leave with him...
Might be an interesting alternative to tidal power, when tides are not strong enough. But I couldn't find much technical information on it.
As for tidal power itself, maybe it's worth noting here that it has been in use for quite some time, even though at only few places. The largest is the 240 Megawatts plant in La Rance in France.
You started a long list, so we might just as well work towards making it comprehensive.
Among the democrats and/or moderates which the US replaced or actively helped to replace with dictators, we could add
Patrice Lumumba, assassinated in Zaire
Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in Guatemala
Among the dictators which the US helped to stay in power for far too long:
The Shah of Iran (this backfired, since when he was eventually overthrown, it was by someone probably even worse: Khomeini)
And basically all of those who ruthlessly ruled Latin America until recently.
In fact, I'm trying to find a case where the US helped overthrow a dictator to let room for a democratic regime. The most recent case I can think of is Hitler. Has there been another since?
Shouldn't have wasted my mod points yesterday. The link in the parent's comment is definitely interesting/insightful and maybe even funny, but not really.
Check it out, and if you have mod points, use them.
This calendar discussion made me wonder if there would already have been rumors of a Google calendar. Obviously, it would have to be called Galendar, wouldn't it?
I haven't experienced any of the bugs you mention, and have a feeling that your OS/setup must be a mess.
The problems I have with FF is that it needs tons of RAM and occasionally starts to grow it's RAM usage to completely unreasonable levels. It is consistently at the top of my memory usage list, when it doesn't go _over_ the top:-).
There are a few other problems, but overall, I find it's a great browser. I do however agree with you that it tends to be overhyped.
FF wants to save everything in same directory. How about remembering where I last saved pics, html or zip/tar files? How about title of document becoming saved file name? msie is a bit better about that.
This is a user option (Tools->Options->Downloads). I also prefer the choice of where to save things, but I've noticed most ordinary users prefer a direct save to the desktop. So the default seems to be the right choice.
worst bug I stumbled upon twice: if you happen to hard-reset a comp with FF open you may lose all your bookmarks.
Loosing an open file after a hard reset sounds like something almost "normal" to happen. The real question is why do you have to hard-reset? (Unless of course you are running Win9x/Me; then hard-resetting and loosing stuff seems "normal").
I haven't used Eudora in ages, so feel free to enlighten me if they have actually added useable Rules, Spam Filtering, and cleaned up what was one of the worlds ugliest interfaces for a long while.
The interface is a matter of personal taste.
But for "Rules", called filters in Eudora, they are the best I have ever seen in any mail client.
They can filter on anything (any header you care to invent). They can even use regular expressions. Here's one I used recently, to dig out that link to send to some other poor OE user: "O(utlook)?\s*E(xpress)?\s*quote\s*fix" in the body or subject. Can you do that in Outlook 2003?
Filters result in "Actions", of which several can happen at once. Filters can be made terminal (when a mail matches, no other filter rules are applied to it), or not: something happens to the mail, but processing continues with the next filters. etc.
I will consider other mail clients when they have such powerful filtering and searching capabilities as Eudora has.
And to go back to the interface: maybe the color of the buttons doesn't look great, but the simplicity of setting up complex filters or searches is an example of a good inteface in itself.
I'm setting up Thunderbird for some people, which is nice and simple, and has better HTML handling than Eudora, but I could not manage my mail without the power of Eudora.
As for spam filtering, I do that on the server with a few carefully selected rbl lists, and with Spamassassin. Eudora deletes mails with a spam score above 20, puts mails with a score between 7 and 20 in the "spam" box, and marks as read and colored (pink of course) scores between 4 and 7.
Try the freezer trick. I once salvaged the data from a dead drive this way.
It may not work but is worth a try, even if your symptoms are different from mine. In my case, the drive was clicking and even the partition table seemed hosed. After a few hours in the freezer, I could copy all but a few files before it definitely died.
Of course, if in your case the drive is fine, but the partitions got damaged by software, it won't help and will probably destroy the drive.
Has that stupid/annoying/embarrassing woman, talking during boot and shutdown been killed at last, or at least silenced?
OK, I'm too hard. And maybe in real life, she's a really nice person. Let's just remove the audio file of her voice and hang the idiot who recorded it and put it on the CD.
Or is the above mentioned idiot Mr Knopper himself? Well, we don't want to hang _him_.
I found this little online Email address syntax checker which is useful in comparing the results of various classical Perl modules. It is very slow (maybe on purpose to avoid abuse?).
Is this really what OSS is striving for? Sophisticated marketing? Can't the OSS community offer an alternative? One where the quality of the product is more important than it's marketing? Isn't this how the OSS successes came? Did Linux, Apache, Perl, etc. have a fancy marketing department, or have they "simply" been delivering great code?
Can't we start bombing these marketing schools where assholes are tought how to best screw us all?
I have, but for the listing I wanted, I thought it was simpler with Perl. I'm not counting matching lines, but matching words. And I use \b in the regexp.
But if you have a better idea with grep, I would be happy to learn something from my silly little experiment:-)
Just to prove my point in a silly but slashdotty way, I couldn't resist counting word occurances (you didn't expect someone on/. to actually read the stuff, did you?):
FCP4 and higher have full EDL and OMF import/export functions - all you need to get in and out of Pro Tools et al.
On the last project I heard of, it didn't quite work, but unfortunately I don't know the details of the problem. Possibly the problem that FCP didn't know the time code of the original DAT tapes, that would sync to the picture? But maybe it was something else. Sorry for being so uninformed, but it's just to say, as always, that you need to be very careful about the whole process until the very end and talk a lot to everyone involved or things do go wrong at some stage and you quickly loose days or weeks of work which could have been avoided with proper coordination and the choce of the right tools for the job.
Also, FCP4 and higher has a very good three-way colour corrector.
Yes, that worked pretty well on the last small project I used it on. While it cannot be compared to Symphony, if your needs are simple nothing beats it on the quality/price ratio.
it will handle any framerate
Does it handle 24 fps film now? FCP 3 didn't or only with add-ons and in a kludgy sort of way from what I had heard. Haven't heard feedback on 24 fps film projects cut on FCP 4 yet. Was mostly involved in video-originated stuff lately.
And there is the problem of not being able to import the DAT/Cantar/whatever time code into some AuxTC EDL. Or does FCP do that now?
But these things seem irrelevant to the original poster's question, so indeed I guess FCP may be his best choice.
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Yes, but:Doesn't look like a mail server...
Maybe I should read his article. Not having a mail server does indeed look like an efficient way to fight spam.
Sorry, but what is "cold canvassing", anyway?
Even Google doesn't know!
I keep my music on hard drives, which I synchronize every now and then. In the coming years, I expect to copy stuff from IDE drives to SATA drives. Later, to whatever replaces SATA.
As for the format, I would recommend FLAC: it is lossless, and open source. So this should last for long. If you see Flac starting to disappear, re-encode to another format, as long as the new format is also both lossless and open source.
Sure, it's bigger than mp3 at 128 kbs, but hard drives are not so expensive.
And of course, do not keep anything with DRM in it. If you can't crack the DRM, there are other paths, like Total Recorder or just going out to your stereo and back into your line input. If done right, the quality loss is minimal, and you only have to do that once. With DRM, you can be pretty certain that a day will come when you won't be able to read it.
I have mod points, but I don't see +1 "Funny flamebait" in the list.
If you put $@->. in your code, I sure understand why you find it painful
Exactly. But I guess that is what so many don't like. As Larry Wall said:
I gess some prefer programming to be boring.
I don't.
And you expected it to work?
I now systematically install Firefox as the default browser on all machines, but I first used it myself for several months (started with v. 0.7 I think, called Phoenix), and only recommended it to computer-savvy friends. Then I set it up for a few users (it was at version 0.9 by then), and waited a couple more months. Then I asked for their feedback, before deploying it to normal users. (The feedback was positive).
And that's for a simple web browser.
I understand why your employee isn't at that company anymore, but I don't understand why you didn't leave with him
Might be an interesting alternative to tidal power, when tides are not strong enough. But I couldn't find much technical information on it.
As for tidal power itself, maybe it's worth noting here that it has been in use for quite some time, even though at only few places. The largest is the 240 Megawatts plant in La Rance in France.
In Northern Ameria, there is The Annapolis Tidal Generating Station.
You started a long list, so we might just as well work towards making it comprehensive.
Among the democrats and/or moderates which the US replaced or actively helped to replace with dictators, we could add
Patrice Lumumba, assassinated in Zaire
Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in Guatemala
Among the dictators which the US helped to stay in power for far too long:
The Shah of Iran (this backfired, since when he was eventually overthrown, it was by someone probably even worse: Khomeini)
And basically all of those who ruthlessly ruled Latin America until recently.
In fact, I'm trying to find a case where the US helped overthrow a dictator to let room for a democratic regime. The most recent case I can think of is Hitler. Has there been another since?
You actually give them real information??
I did. And I did not receive a single spam to the email address I gave them several years ago.
Shouldn't have wasted my mod points yesterday. The link in the parent's comment is definitely interesting/insightful and maybe even funny, but not really.
Check it out, and if you have mod points, use them.
Just realized that the Google calendar has already been discussed on /., and yet nobody seems to have noticed Galendar.com.
/. ...
And then I realized that Galendar.com actually IS a calendar of sorts. If you stay long enough on the page, the animated logo will explain it.
Incredible, all the things one can discover through
This calendar discussion made me wonder if there would already have been rumors of a Google calendar. Obviously, it would have to be called Galendar, wouldn't it?
Well, it turns out that even though some are waiting for it, (the Google Calendar), it would have a naming problem: Galendar.com exists already, and happens to be very unlike Gmail.com.
I haven't experienced any of the bugs you mention, and have a feeling that your OS/setup must be a mess.
:-).
The problems I have with FF is that it needs tons of RAM and occasionally starts to grow it's RAM usage to completely unreasonable levels. It is consistently at the top of my memory usage list, when it doesn't go _over_ the top
There are a few other problems, but overall, I find it's a great browser. I do however agree with you that it tends to be overhyped.
FF wants to save everything in same directory. How about remembering where I last saved pics, html or zip/tar files? How about title of document becoming saved file name? msie is a bit better about that.
This is a user option (Tools->Options->Downloads). I also prefer the choice of where to save things, but I've noticed most ordinary users prefer a direct save to the desktop. So the default seems to be the right choice.
worst bug I stumbled upon twice: if you happen to hard-reset a comp with FF open you may lose all your bookmarks.
Loosing an open file after a hard reset sounds like something almost "normal" to happen. The real question is why do you have to hard-reset? (Unless of course you are running Win9x/Me; then hard-resetting and loosing stuff seems "normal").
Nobody seems yet to have mentioned the old joke that I heard as a kid, and probably my parents too:
A boy asks:
- Daddy, is it far, America?
The father replies
- Shut up and swim.
I haven't used Eudora in ages, so feel free to enlighten me if they have actually added useable Rules, Spam Filtering, and cleaned up what was one of the worlds ugliest interfaces for a long while.
The interface is a matter of personal taste.
But for "Rules", called filters in Eudora, they are the best I have ever seen in any mail client.
They can filter on anything (any header you care to invent). They can even use regular expressions. Here's one I used recently, to dig out that link to send to some other poor OE user: "O(utlook)?\s*E(xpress)?\s*quote\s*fix" in the body or subject. Can you do that in Outlook 2003?
Filters result in "Actions", of which several can happen at once. Filters can be made terminal (when a mail matches, no other filter rules are applied to it), or not: something happens to the mail, but processing continues with the next filters.
etc.
I will consider other mail clients when they have such powerful filtering and searching capabilities as Eudora has.
And to go back to the interface: maybe the color of the buttons doesn't look great, but the simplicity of setting up complex filters or searches is an example of a good inteface in itself.
I'm setting up Thunderbird for some people, which is nice and simple, and has better HTML handling than Eudora, but I could not manage my mail without the power of Eudora.
As for spam filtering, I do that on the server with a few carefully selected rbl lists, and with Spamassassin. Eudora deletes mails with a spam score above 20, puts mails with a score between 7 and 20 in the "spam" box, and marks as read and colored (pink of course) scores between 4 and 7.
Try the freezer trick. I once salvaged the data from a dead drive this way.
It may not work but is worth a try, even if your symptoms are different from mine. In my case, the drive was clicking and even the partition table seemed hosed. After a few hours in the freezer, I could copy all but a few files before it definitely died.
Of course, if in your case the drive is fine, but the partitions got damaged by software, it won't help and will probably destroy the drive.
Has that stupid/annoying/embarrassing woman, talking during boot and shutdown been killed at last, or at least silenced?
OK, I'm too hard. And maybe in real life, she's a really nice person. Let's just remove the audio file of her voice and hang the idiot who recorded it and put it on the CD.
Or is the above mentioned idiot Mr Knopper himself? Well, we don't want to hang _him_.
There must be a solution...
I found this little online Email address syntax checker which is useful in comparing the results of various classical Perl modules. It is very slow (maybe on purpose to avoid abuse?).
Is this really what OSS is striving for? Sophisticated marketing? Can't the OSS community offer an alternative? One where the quality of the product is more important than it's marketing? Isn't this how the OSS successes came? Did Linux, Apache, Perl, etc. have a fancy marketing department, or have they "simply" been delivering great code?
Can't we start bombing these marketing schools where assholes are tought how to best screw us all?
You are confusing frame rates (24 / 25 progressive or 50 / 60 interlaced) with pixel resolution.
haven't you heard of grep
:-)
I have, but for the listing I wanted, I thought it was simpler with Perl. I'm not counting matching lines, but matching words. And I use \b in the regexp.
But if you have a better idea with grep, I would be happy to learn something from my silly little experiment
Just to prove my point in a silly but slashdotty way, I couldn't resist counting word occurances (you didn't expect someone on
FCP4 and higher have full EDL and OMF import/export functions - all you need to get in and out of Pro Tools et al.
On the last project I heard of, it didn't quite work, but unfortunately I don't know the details of the problem. Possibly the problem that FCP didn't know the time code of the original DAT tapes, that would sync to the picture? But maybe it was something else. Sorry for being so uninformed, but it's just to say, as always, that you need to be very careful about the whole process until the very end and talk a lot to everyone involved or things do go wrong at some stage and you quickly loose days or weeks of work which could have been avoided with proper coordination and the choce of the right tools for the job.
Also, FCP4 and higher has a very good three-way colour corrector.
Yes, that worked pretty well on the last small project I used it on. While it cannot be compared to Symphony, if your needs are simple nothing beats it on the quality/price ratio.
it will handle any framerate
Does it handle 24 fps film now? FCP 3 didn't or only with add-ons and in a kludgy sort of way from what I had heard. Haven't heard feedback on 24 fps film projects cut on FCP 4 yet. Was mostly involved in video-originated stuff lately.
And there is the problem of not being able to import the DAT/Cantar/whatever time code into some AuxTC EDL. Or does FCP do that now?
But these things seem irrelevant to the original poster's question, so indeed I guess FCP may be his best choice.