Maybe, if they think a moment and realize that the Linux community consists of people who don't necessarily like to pay extra for permission to do something that they're perfectly capable of doing on their own, they might be attracted to that.
They might also realize that the majority of the Linux community doesn't live in the US and doesn't currently have to flout such a bizarre law, since it doesn't apply to them.
However, if the thought of being anything but good consumer sheep scares them off, well then off they go.
What if some religious group who was against people charging for labor started roaming the streets fixing people's roofs for free? What if it put a lot of people out of business?
What if we met on the street, and you said to me "I wish those freaks would stop fixing people's roofs for free, it's going to put me out of a job soon" and then I LAUGHED IN YOUR FACE?
What? Not funny?
Of course it's funny. It's also sad, sad like the public sector unions here that go on strike because parents have volunteered to help fix things up in their kids' school playgrounds, and that's "taking their jobs".
If someone's willing to do what you do for free, then tough shit, you're going to be out of work. As long as they aren't stealing money from someone else to pay for it (including through taxation), who cares?
Because there's a good chance we're not only causing this change, but that the results of massive climate change are rarely good for the organisms around at the time of the change (including us).
Whether we can actually stop doing what we're doing is another issue entirely. I don't think you can get 6+ billion people to stop acting selfishly. So move somewhere where you won't end up underwater and hope the economic disruptions don't affect you too badly.
I doubt that would be the case if you only counted takeoffs and landings (you know, the parts of the trip where something could actually go wrong). A child's wagon could survive thousands of orbits unscathed. Hell, if you launched a Pinto and placed it into a high enough orbit it would win a safety award based on pure mileage.
I'd like to see people invest in space, too. But I'd like to see it done voluntarily.
Stealing money from people in the form of taxes in order to spend it on useless endeavours like ISS is stupid. Not as stupid as spending it on smart bombs to blow up underequipped Iraqi's, or dumping it into pointless social programs that don't do what they are supposed to do, but endlessly need more money, but still pretty stupid.
Postfix + Amavis is a wicked combo for content filtering. For virtual domain admin, check out Jamm. If you want great POP/IMAP mailbox support for your virtual domains, add Courier IMAP to your setup.
Some of the features you might like in Postfix over Qmail include SMTP AUTH, TLS/SSL support, nice content-filtering support, great spam blocking features (HELO checking, RHSbl support, DNSbl support, sender address checking, many others), and extensive database and LDAP support. The virtual domain support is full-featured, although very different to Qmail's in terms of implementation, and with something like Jamm your users can have full control of their domains and/or mailboxes via a web interface.
And yes, I know there are patches for Qmail to do most or all of the above. It's just easier to do with Postfix IMO.
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Sendmail used to cause me endless problems. Queue runs running amok. Mail backed up. DNS resolver problems. You name it, Sendmail did it. Except deliver mail reliably without constant babysitting.
Qmail just works. Postfix just works 99.999% of the time. Sendmail certainly may have improved in the years since I've admin'd it, but I'll never go through the effort of finding out, bcause better alternatives exist.
Being a good sysadmin/network admin requires as much skill and experience as being a good programmer. Crackerjack-box MCSE's are obviously not in that category. But then neither are 6-month technical school programmers.
Filtering is useless at those levels. You have to agressively block at the MTA level or give up on E-mail. I would get several hundred a day without blocking, with a good selection of block lists I get only 5-6 a day that SpamAssassin then filters.
At least with blocks, any false positives get an actual bounce they can call you about, rather than just disappearing in your spam folder.
I'm having difficulty finding a binary for my Linux x86-64 system, or source code that I can compile.
Please post a link to one or the other.
Alternately, please post a link to the official, complete specifications for the current word document format so I or someone else can implement a good free reader that is usable on non-supported systems.
Oh wait, you can't, because none of these exist for this proprietary document format.
Well, this was up here in Canada. We don't actually put criminals in jail anymore, it's considered bad for them or something.
Pretty much the only thing that will get you jail time is killing someone, and even then it's usually not a lot. Some guy recently got all of 3 years for assaulting and killing another guy in a local park with a baseball bat. It's ridiculous.
It seems that in today's world, everything is tied to the first amendment of the US Constitution.
That's because the Supreme Court actually upholds the 1st Amendment, usually. Something that cannot be said about the 2nd, the 4th, the 6th, the 10th, or the 11th.
England and France could have easily defeated Germany at the time. However, there was very little appetite for war given the relative recentness of World War I (which killed or maimed basically every young man in all 3 countries and left a little bit of a bad memory).
Actually, even by 1940 Germany was substantially weaker relative to the other powers than they were in 1914.
They had just figured out how to use tanks and aircraft much better than the other nations, and were ready to fight World War II instead of continuing to prepare to re-fight World War I like the French.
The English, thanks to Chamberlain, were basically just hoping nothing would happen, and if it did, trusted that the Polish and French could handle it long enough for them to mobilize.
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Hey, there's a LOT of crackerjack-box MCSE's out there. I'm sure a few have found Slashdot.
Yeah, the one the ACLU won't fight for.
And the best thing of all was that NONE of those Congress members had access to the full text of the act they were voting on at the time.
Unfortunately the Conservatives would be just as likely (or more) to do the same. CRIA will be spreading the payola to all parties I'm sure.
Maybe, if they think a moment and realize that the Linux community consists of people who don't necessarily like to pay extra for permission to do something that they're perfectly capable of doing on their own, they might be attracted to that.
They might also realize that the majority of the Linux community doesn't live in the US and doesn't currently have to flout such a bizarre law, since it doesn't apply to them.
However, if the thought of being anything but good consumer sheep scares them off, well then off they go.
What if some religious group who was against people charging for labor started roaming the streets fixing people's roofs for free? What if it put a lot of people out of business?
What if we met on the street, and you said to me "I wish those freaks would stop fixing people's roofs for free, it's going to put me out of a job soon" and then I LAUGHED IN YOUR FACE?
What? Not funny?
Of course it's funny. It's also sad, sad like the public sector unions here that go on strike because parents have volunteered to help fix things up in their kids' school playgrounds, and that's "taking their jobs".
If someone's willing to do what you do for free, then tough shit, you're going to be out of work. As long as they aren't stealing money from someone else to pay for it (including through taxation), who cares?
It also has nothing to do with copying movies.
Because there's a good chance we're not only causing this change, but that the results of massive climate change are rarely good for the organisms around at the time of the change (including us).
Whether we can actually stop doing what we're doing is another issue entirely. I don't think you can get 6+ billion people to stop acting selfishly. So move somewhere where you won't end up underwater and hope the economic disruptions don't affect you too badly.
I doubt that would be the case if you only counted takeoffs and landings (you know, the parts of the trip where something could actually go wrong). A child's wagon could survive thousands of orbits unscathed. Hell, if you launched a Pinto and placed it into a high enough orbit it would win a safety award based on pure mileage.
I'd like to see people invest in space, too. But I'd like to see it done voluntarily.
Stealing money from people in the form of taxes in order to spend it on useless endeavours like ISS is stupid. Not as stupid as spending it on smart bombs to blow up underequipped Iraqi's, or dumping it into pointless social programs that don't do what they are supposed to do, but endlessly need more money, but still pretty stupid.
As others have said, mount your mailboxes NFS or AFS, not the queue. Use Maildir's of course, if you're going to do this.
Postfix + Amavis is a wicked combo for content filtering. For virtual domain admin, check out Jamm. If you want great POP/IMAP mailbox support for your virtual domains, add Courier IMAP to your setup.
Some of the features you might like in Postfix over Qmail include SMTP AUTH, TLS/SSL support, nice content-filtering support, great spam blocking features (HELO checking, RHSbl support, DNSbl support, sender address checking, many others), and extensive database and LDAP support. The virtual domain support is full-featured, although very different to Qmail's in terms of implementation, and with something like Jamm your users can have full control of their domains and/or mailboxes via a web interface.
And yes, I know there are patches for Qmail to do most or all of the above. It's just easier to do with Postfix IMO.
Sendmail used to cause me endless problems. Queue runs running amok. Mail backed up. DNS resolver problems. You name it, Sendmail did it. Except deliver mail reliably without constant babysitting.
Qmail just works. Postfix just works 99.999% of the time. Sendmail certainly may have improved in the years since I've admin'd it, but I'll never go through the effort of finding out, bcause better alternatives exist.
Unfortunately, it has also meant no new functionality for >= 5 years, unless you want to maintain your own source tree with dozens of patches.
I loved qmail, but all my systems run Postfix nowadays. SSL, SMTP AUTH, content filtering, too many features I needed and qmail doesn't have.
I just hope djbdns doesn't go the same way, cause I REALLY hate BIND.
replication is a lot easier when you don't have to worry about transactions and data integrity.
You can buy decent replication for Postgres if you need it, for now.
Being a good sysadmin/network admin requires as much skill and experience as being a good programmer. Crackerjack-box MCSE's are obviously not in that category. But then neither are 6-month technical school programmers.
Yep.
Smoked any pot lately?
How about refused to pay the extortion fee your government calls taxes?
Or maybe you've driven your car without wearing a seatbelt?
All crimes in most supposedly free countries.
Filtering is useless at those levels. You have to agressively block at the MTA level or give up on E-mail. I would get several hundred a day without blocking, with a good selection of block lists I get only 5-6 a day that SpamAssassin then filters.
At least with blocks, any false positives get an actual bounce they can call you about, rather than just disappearing in your spam folder.
I'm having difficulty finding a binary for my Linux x86-64 system, or source code that I can compile.
Please post a link to one or the other.
Alternately, please post a link to the official, complete specifications for the current word document format so I or someone else can implement a good free reader that is usable on non-supported systems.
Oh wait, you can't, because none of these exist for this proprietary document format.
Well, this was up here in Canada. We don't actually put criminals in jail anymore, it's considered bad for them or something.
Pretty much the only thing that will get you jail time is killing someone, and even then it's usually not a lot. Some guy recently got all of 3 years for assaulting and killing another guy in a local park with a baseball bat. It's ridiculous.
It seems that in today's world, everything is tied to the first amendment of the US Constitution.
That's because the Supreme Court actually upholds the 1st Amendment, usually. Something that cannot be said about the 2nd, the 4th, the 6th, the 10th, or the 11th.
Yeah, it's a good thing no one gets murdered now. Those laws work great.
You can't even pay for mp3's. You can only pay for DRM-protected crap that you can't play on your mp3-enabled devices.
I'm sorry, but no one has yet found a way to convert bureaucratic innefficiency to useful power.
Because they carry guns and they'll come hunt you down if you don't let them steal your income.
England and France could have easily defeated Germany at the time. However, there was very little appetite for war given the relative recentness of World War I (which killed or maimed basically every young man in all 3 countries and left a little bit of a bad memory).
Actually, even by 1940 Germany was substantially weaker relative to the other powers than they were in 1914.
They had just figured out how to use tanks and aircraft much better than the other nations, and were ready to fight World War II instead of continuing to prepare to re-fight World War I like the French.
The English, thanks to Chamberlain, were basically just hoping nothing would happen, and if it did, trusted that the Polish and French could handle it long enough for them to mobilize.