Yea, I got real tired of the spam crap coming in as well, and in my little mail server, my kids have email addresses.
Perhaps I'm a little bit naive about all this, but I put in a number of black hole lists in my mail server config, and have found that with few exceptions, all ham mail is getting through, and the spam is getting disconnected without the relatively high resource cost of spam scanning (I got a really small mail server).
I could see where this would be a bit more difficult in a larger installation, but I'm sure an automatic white listing process could also be implemented (if only the sender were smart enough to understand what the reject message was telling him)
Well, I did a bit of VB 5 & 6 coding in my day, and then I did one program in VB.Net. I have to say that it was a real step backwards.
In VB6, you ended up doing 1/2 of your development work in the interactive debugger in the middle of a running session. If you needed to change the code of a method on an object, all you had to do was pop the execution stack one level, edit all the code of that method that you wanted, and then step back into it. It was a great was to beat the compile/link/debug cycle.
That aside, if I were one of the revolting programmers, I'd seriously consider just migrating it to Gambas: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ rather than staying with MS and their dictatorship.
Sure the porting to Gambas would take sometime, but you got to figure that it'd be the last time that you'd have to do it. After that you could freeze on a particular version and support it yourself if you needed to, or continue to evolve along with it (Gambas). At least you'd have a choice.
Now that I'm developing on Linux with C++ and Gtkmm, there is one thing that I do miss: the capability of MS debuggers. I'm using ddd right now, and everything that I turn around, it seg faults, or looses the debuggee program thread or something, and a lot of times, it just plain old does not find the debug symbols so that I can effectively inspect the state of a variables (and yes, this is with g++ creating the most verbose debug symbols possible). I've eneded up using trace debug macros to do most of the debugging, of course this means that it's back to the compile/link/debug cycle again.
I've found thing that I've forgotten about using it. The nice thing is that it will not only search your main mailbox folders, it will also search any of archives that you've opened in Outlook as well.
Yea, well, it is a Microsoft based solution.
Outlook starts to have a problem when a message store, or.PST file gets to around 1 GB. So I Automatically archive anything over a few months from the main message store to an archive, then manually archive out of that one by quarter into a seperate.PST file named YYYY-Qn. These are then stored on CD-Rs, as well as remaining on the hard disk for indexing and searching. Works well, hardly loose anything.
However, it seems that MS have botched the File-Archive menu function, as the date compare doesn't seem to be consistent, but oh well, the system works, email is not lost and is reasonably filed, and will continue to work as long as the.PST file format is supported by the MS tools.
OK. So outcome they are always telling everyone that they are the innovators in the software field? Wouldn't this be an instance of bogus advertising, and shouldn't this be raised as an issue in court?
Just think, MS would have to admit to everyone publically that they don't innovate anymore, whch is what everyone on/. already knew, but there would be value in the average CIO / CEO and consumer knowing/hearing about this as well. Hmmm?
Yup. The behemoth grows yet again.
Just wondering out loud, but couldn't this be another demonstration that MS is not innovating but just acquiring the competition?
Seems like that's all that they are doing these days. Their 'innovations' like Longhorn, and WinFS seem to be caught up in endless delay cycles. Why wouldn't MS create a high-fi web based version of MS Office as competition? After all, they are supposed to be writing software, right?
I have to agree with you. I got ride of the useless sports and entertainment, and added corporate scandals, government leadership, and Corporate Governance.
Way to go Google. Anyone else think that eventually Google will become the web? (chuckle, chuckle).
If you are developing products for a culture, it's best to understand and live that culture to best develop products for that culture. This is especially true for software, at the user interface level, as well as the data modeling level. This is not a barrier that is easily overcome.
Historically, the US R&D has been the most innovative, out of box thinking, and passionate in closely held beliefs that go against the mainstream. It appears to be founded in our culture to not readily accept existing boundaries (rugged individualism). The US culture appears to be unique in this facet.
This is not to say that there cannot be quality research from other cultures, clearly this is the case and there are many examples, to many to site here (Russia, Israel, etc.). Just that they are arriving at solutions from their cultural perspectives. It's just that unique quality of US culture, and therefore reflected in it's R&D efforts and results, that is based on the US culture is not easily replaced.
Hear Hear! The entire system is out of whack on this. No telling how deep the correction to get it fixed. Of course one could argue that this is the natural order of things, as the bourgeois have been exploiting the proletariate since the beinning of time.
Just want to point out that according to the laws of thermodynamics, energy is neither created no destroyed. It only changes its form.
So, to revise your statement, I guess it would be that we are using energy faster than it's arriving from the sun?
I have a hard time believing that. I think that we should consider exploiting this energy source more, as well as wind power. I'd rather be living next to a turbine windmill rather than a nuclear power station, so the NIMBY crowd should really shut up a little bit more.
And one wonders where all the techno-gadget based productivity gains went!
Fooling with ring-tones, getting the wallpaper just right, reading/. while at work... the list just goes on.
Hear Hear!
When on Vibrate, I can choose to ignore easily enough. Sometimes, just knowing that a call came in is sufficient.
Bothers nobody, not even at the movies!
Hmm. Boundless money? I'm sure that beyond a certain point, which is probably different for everyone, more money looses its meaning and value, unless you believe that human nature, once it has the majority of the resources, will strive to accumulate 100% of the resources; i.e. Ever all of the money is not enough.
Considering some of the CxO compensation packages, I have to believe that it's the latter. In which case, I guess the less money that you have, the greater that you are screwed.
But what does this say about a human beings morals and principles? The typical moral delemma being would you do X for Y amount of money.
I have to say that are some things that I would not consider doing reguardless of how much money is associated with doing it. Of course it appears that some of our leaders don't have this dilemma.
To me, being a leader means that you need to put the best interests of the organization you are leading ahead of your own.
Back into context, this means that the leaders in government should be putting the best interests of the people before their own best insterest (short of doing ones self harm), and yes, turn down the money, as well as the overt special interests and lobbyists.
Perhaps a bit unrealistic, or even totally unrealistic, but to me, this is the ideal that we all should strive for.
Imagine a future when this is the rule of thumb rather than the exception. Wouldn't that be a better place (time) to live?
So like how do we get there? Well, for starters, how about hold ourselves to this standard and then, shortly thereafter, hold our leaders to the same standard.
I agree that the flag is far from gone, and that the battle will continue plan B or not, there is an issue here that concerns me even more.
(Probably restating the blatantly obvious again, but here goes).
Q: Why exactly did the FCC purpose this broadcast flag in the first place?
A: I'll wager that they were intensly lobbied, and possibly even paid off, by the media conglomerates.
Am I the only one that find this extreemly troubling? Isn't this form of government supposed to be by the people and for the people? Shouldn't there be some sort of investigation on this particular point to acertain the FCCs decision making and resoning processes particular to this issue?
This was exactly what I was thinking too. There is no real difference between a VCR and a PVR. The only difference is the storage media of the program. Then, by extension, if the broadcast flag disables PVRs, it would seem logical to conclude that it too would be in violation of that supreme court ruling.
Right or wrong? Can someone speak with some authority or greater knowledge on this issue?
That's what I would believe as well. In fact, as soon as winrar writes the virus file, an on demand scanner ould pick it up and flagg it even before it could have a chance to do something.
Thanks! I tried to make it clear and easy to understand. You may find that it's written a little beneath you, as the intended audiance was a non technical professor.
Well, that is assuming that I want Google to index my home web site. I don't. It's on my private cable modem, and I don't want to drive too much traffic to it, as per the spirit of the cableco's acceptable use agrement.
As part of a school project, our team configured a drop in Linux based replacement for ADS and email on the then current SuSE 9.0. Once set up, you can even use the Windows NT Domain tools to administer it. The Linux machine even played the role of domain controller.
Worked really slick. Single sign-on for all machines, Linux and Windows.
I have the Word doc write up of how we did it around here someplace. I'd be willing to share if you are interested.
As others have mentioned, and I'll confirm, that there is an automounter that comes with the distro that can mount smb file shares on windows machines in the network. I've got this working at home right now.
Slashdot Mirror
Yea, I got real tired of the spam crap coming in as well, and in my little mail server, my kids have email addresses.
Perhaps I'm a little bit naive about all this, but I put in a number of black hole lists in my mail server config, and have found that with few exceptions, all ham mail is getting through, and the spam is getting disconnected without the relatively high resource cost of spam scanning (I got a really small mail server).
I could see where this would be a bit more difficult in a larger installation, but I'm sure an automatic white listing process could also be implemented (if only the sender were smart enough to understand what the reject message was telling him)
Well, I did a bit of VB 5 & 6 coding in my day, and then I did one program in VB.Net. I have to say that it was a real step backwards.
In VB6, you ended up doing 1/2 of your development work in the interactive debugger in the middle of a running session. If you needed to change the code of a method on an object, all you had to do was pop the execution stack one level, edit all the code of that method that you wanted, and then step back into it. It was a great was to beat the compile/link/debug cycle.
That aside, if I were one of the revolting programmers, I'd seriously consider just migrating it to Gambas: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/ rather than staying with MS and their dictatorship.
Sure the porting to Gambas would take sometime, but you got to figure that it'd be the last time that you'd have to do it. After that you could freeze on a particular version and support it yourself if you needed to, or continue to evolve along with it (Gambas). At least you'd have a choice.
Now that I'm developing on Linux with C++ and Gtkmm, there is one thing that I do miss: the capability of MS debuggers. I'm using ddd right now, and everything that I turn around, it seg faults, or looses the debuggee program thread or something, and a lot of times, it just plain old does not find the debug symbols so that I can effectively inspect the state of a variables (and yes, this is with g++ creating the most verbose debug symbols possible). I've eneded up using trace debug macros to do most of the debugging, of course this means that it's back to the compile/link/debug cycle again.
I have to second the Google desktop search idea.
.PST file gets to around 1 GB. So I Automatically archive anything over a few months from the main message store to an archive, then manually archive out of that one by quarter into a seperate .PST file named YYYY-Qn. These are then stored on CD-Rs, as well as remaining on the hard disk for indexing and searching. Works well, hardly loose anything.
.PST file format is supported by the MS tools.
I've found thing that I've forgotten about using it. The nice thing is that it will not only search your main mailbox folders, it will also search any of archives that you've opened in Outlook as well.
Yea, well, it is a Microsoft based solution.
Outlook starts to have a problem when a message store, or
However, it seems that MS have botched the File-Archive menu function, as the date compare doesn't seem to be consistent, but oh well, the system works, email is not lost and is reasonably filed, and will continue to work as long as the
Well hell, you got me there.
OK. So outcome they are always telling everyone that they are the innovators in the software field? Wouldn't this be an instance of bogus advertising, and shouldn't this be raised as an issue in court?
/. already knew, but there would be value in the average CIO / CEO and consumer knowing/hearing about this as well. Hmmm?
Just think, MS would have to admit to everyone publically that they don't innovate anymore, whch is what everyone on
Yup. The behemoth grows yet again. Just wondering out loud, but couldn't this be another demonstration that MS is not innovating but just acquiring the competition? Seems like that's all that they are doing these days. Their 'innovations' like Longhorn, and WinFS seem to be caught up in endless delay cycles. Why wouldn't MS create a high-fi web based version of MS Office as competition? After all, they are supposed to be writing software, right?
I have to agree with you. I got ride of the useless sports and entertainment, and added corporate scandals, government leadership, and Corporate Governance. Way to go Google. Anyone else think that eventually Google will become the web? (chuckle, chuckle).
No, not white power.
If you are developing products for a culture, it's best to understand and live that culture to best develop products for that culture. This is especially true for software, at the user interface level, as well as the data modeling level. This is not a barrier that is easily overcome.
Historically, the US R&D has been the most innovative, out of box thinking, and passionate in closely held beliefs that go against the mainstream. It appears to be founded in our culture to not readily accept existing boundaries (rugged individualism). The US culture appears to be unique in this facet.
This is not to say that there cannot be quality research from other cultures, clearly this is the case and there are many examples, to many to site here (Russia, Israel, etc.). Just that they are arriving at solutions from their cultural perspectives. It's just that unique quality of US culture, and therefore reflected in it's R&D efforts and results, that is based on the US culture is not easily replaced.
Hear Hear! The entire system is out of whack on this. No telling how deep the correction to get it fixed. Of course one could argue that this is the natural order of things, as the bourgeois have been exploiting the proletariate since the beinning of time.
No, I think that they are thinking that they are getting the same research for less money. I don't believe that they are getting the same thing.
Gee, and here I was thinking that what we really need is leadership and not management. This only confirms it.
Damm NIMBYs! You'd think that they'd support the notion of not burning fossil fuels for electricity. Show's you how consistent they really are.
Just want to point out that according to the laws of thermodynamics, energy is neither created no destroyed. It only changes its form.
So, to revise your statement, I guess it would be that we are using energy faster than it's arriving from the sun?
I have a hard time believing that. I think that we should consider exploiting this energy source more, as well as wind power. I'd rather be living next to a turbine windmill rather than a nuclear power station, so the NIMBY crowd should really shut up a little bit more.
And one wonders where all the techno-gadget based productivity gains went! Fooling with ring-tones, getting the wallpaper just right, reading /. while at work... the list just goes on.
Hear Hear! When on Vibrate, I can choose to ignore easily enough. Sometimes, just knowing that a call came in is sufficient. Bothers nobody, not even at the movies!
Hmm. Boundless money? I'm sure that beyond a certain point, which is probably different for everyone, more money looses its meaning and value, unless you believe that human nature, once it has the majority of the resources, will strive to accumulate 100% of the resources; i.e. Ever all of the money is not enough.
Considering some of the CxO compensation packages, I have to believe that it's the latter. In which case, I guess the less money that you have, the greater that you are screwed.
But what does this say about a human beings morals and principles? The typical moral delemma being would you do X for Y amount of money.
I have to say that are some things that I would not consider doing reguardless of how much money is associated with doing it. Of course it appears that some of our leaders don't have this dilemma.
To me, being a leader means that you need to put the best interests of the organization you are leading ahead of your own.
Back into context, this means that the leaders in government should be putting the best interests of the people before their own best insterest (short of doing ones self harm), and yes, turn down the money, as well as the overt special interests and lobbyists.
Perhaps a bit unrealistic, or even totally unrealistic, but to me, this is the ideal that we all should strive for.
Imagine a future when this is the rule of thumb rather than the exception. Wouldn't that be a better place (time) to live?
So like how do we get there? Well, for starters, how about hold ourselves to this standard and then, shortly thereafter, hold our leaders to the same standard.
I agree that the flag is far from gone, and that the battle will continue plan B or not, there is an issue here that concerns me even more.
(Probably restating the blatantly obvious again, but here goes).
Q: Why exactly did the FCC purpose this broadcast flag in the first place?
A: I'll wager that they were intensly lobbied, and possibly even paid off, by the media conglomerates.
Am I the only one that find this extreemly troubling? Isn't this form of government supposed to be by the people and for the people? Shouldn't there be some sort of investigation on this particular point to acertain the FCCs decision making and resoning processes particular to this issue?
This was exactly what I was thinking too. There is no real difference between a VCR and a PVR. The only difference is the storage media of the program. Then, by extension, if the broadcast flag disables PVRs, it would seem logical to conclude that it too would be in violation of that supreme court ruling.
Right or wrong? Can someone speak with some authority or greater knowledge on this issue?
That's what I would believe as well. In fact, as soon as winrar writes the virus file, an on demand scanner ould pick it up and flagg it even before it could have a chance to do something.
Thanks! I tried to make it clear and easy to understand. You may find that it's written a little beneath you, as the intended audiance was a non technical professor.
Please do so. All I request is that the origonal author list is maintained, and / or added to as the document evolves.
Well, that is assuming that I want Google to index my home web site. I don't. It's on my private cable modem, and I don't want to drive too much traffic to it, as per the spirit of the cableco's acceptable use agrement.
Glad to help out. I'm sure that somewhere the karma will catch up with me. Thanks, and best of luck to you.
The Word document is about 1 MB in Zip format and available via this link http://www.echohome.org/serverconfiguration.zip
As part of a school project, our team configured a drop in Linux based replacement for ADS and email on the then current SuSE 9.0. Once set up, you can even use the Windows NT Domain tools to administer it. The Linux machine even played the role of domain controller.
Worked really slick. Single sign-on for all machines, Linux and Windows.
I have the Word doc write up of how we did it around here someplace. I'd be willing to share if you are interested.
As others have mentioned, and I'll confirm, that there is an automounter that comes with the distro that can mount smb file shares on windows machines in the network. I've got this working at home right now.