Seriously, save jail for violent offenders. There's not enough room as it is. Enron execs may be annoying, but they won't mug you on the street and rape your kids.
I would prefer spammers in jail even before Enron a**holes!! I bet that most people on Slashdot would too. The point is that spammers affect everyone that does not want to change their email address every 2 hours.
There is more loss from spam on the internet than there is from theft like in the Enron case. How?
People don't get all email because they have to filter things making Internet communication more difficult
You cannot trust the source of the email - not even to inform people that their message was not seen because it is considered spam! (well, unless you want to spam countless innocent mail boxes in the process)
Spam costs me money. Spam costs my business money.
Spam wastes my time
Spam can be disgusting (I even once got kiddie porn spam - if that is not disgusting then I don't know what is)
If no one stops Ralsky, maybe we should form a posse and exert some mob-justice on Ralky ourselves.
Most commercial distros would like to keep the source code secret or at least modifications and software that makes these distributions unique. This is not something specific to Sun's Linux distro. Just look at Lindows (uhm, Linspire). They prefer to have a marketshare and not just, "I'm using Linux from Sun" or "I'm using Linux from Lindows". They want people to say, "I'm using Java Desktop. And what is Linux again?"
If end-users don't use testing and unstable (those that can report bugs), then you'll have these bugs in next stable release.
On a remote collocated server, I would never run testing. On a local, internal server that I can fix at any time, I do run testing. On my machine, I run unstable (well, all Debian DD should:).
That is why I said that you run stable on machines that you need stable (not changing) software. Everyone that would like to help the next stable release be bug free should run testing, or even better, unstable (if you want testing to be bug free)
Testing is NOT limitted to developers. There is a reason why all mirrors do not only distribute the stable release.
Currently, with all of the packages migrating from unstable to testing automatically based on bug reports, testing is nothing more than a moving stable release. Stable is just a snapshot in time of testing - sure, we want the number of RC bugs down to 0, but that should be the case for testing at all time.
If you want to have testing just as bug free as stable, then run unstable on your machine and report all bugs, especially the RC bugs. Then testing will remain relatively bug-free.
For people that don't know, Debian has 3 distributions: unstable (Sid), testing (Sarge) and stable (Woody). This means that if you want most up-to-date software, you run Sid and cope with some possible breakage (I didn't have anything broken badly over the last few years).
If you want stuff up to date, but want to have something that would be considered "stable" by other distros, you run Sarge (or testing).
The Woody distribution is for cases when you want to run a bunch of applications predictably. This means that your production application will run the same on day one as it does on day 100. An update will not break your application. An update will not change the way the application works. That is the point of stable - stable operation for a long period of time.
And yes, you can install 2.4.26 in Woody (from kernel.org). Woody actually has 2.4.x kernels no matter what the trolls are talking about.
And before anyone mentions PTFE (Teflon), well it may be OK in a frying pan, but a wiring fault would result in the release of fluorine gas, which would resct with moisture in the air to give hydrofluoric acid. Not good.
Indeed,
Potential Health Effects
Exposure to hydrofluoric acid can produce harmful health effects that may not be immediately apparent.
Inhalation:
Severely corrosive to the respiratory tract. May cause sore throat, coughing, labored breathing and lung congestion/inflammation.
Ingestion:
Corrosive. May cause sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, severe burns of the digestive tract, and kidney dysfunction.
Skin Contact:
Corrosive to the skin. Skin contact causes serious skin burns which may not be immediately apparent or painful. Symptoms may be delayed 8 hours or longer. The fluoride ion readily penetrates the skin causing destruction of deep tissue layers and even bone.
Eye Contact:
Corrosive to the eyes. Symptoms of redness, pain, blurred vision, and permanent eye damage may occur.
Chronic Exposure:
Intake of more than 6 mg of fluorine per day may result in fluorosis, bone and joint damage. Hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia can occur from absorption of fluoride ion into blood stream.
Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions:
Persons with pre-existing skin disorders, eye problems, or impaired kidney or respiratory function may be more susceptible to the effects of this substance.
Eggs with that?
Re:Grudgingly going back to Sendmail.
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Uhhhm, why now just use the cluster to filter stuff, and then just map the mail to an internal SMTP server which moves the traffic to user accounts. That way your cluster will not need to use NFS, but just their own disks (which is faster, most of the time), and the internal SMTP server will not get loaded that much since it does nothing that CPU intensive (no filtering).
That is because they are using it on systems that do not have integrity checking in hardware.
Personally, for mission critical stuff I would not trust MySQL or Oracle or PostgreSQL. I would just add another column with a MD5 sum or whatever. Then integrity can be checked in a reliable fashion (by mysqlf).
So what? With MySQL, it is cheap enough just to add another CPU or whatever. Instead of running on a Xeon, you just move to a dual or quad Opeteron.
MySQL is a very fast database if the keys can fit in RAM. Today, RAM and CPU speed is not a problem as it once used to be. Differences between MySQL and Oracle are blurred.
Sure, if you need 20,000 connections to the same database, maybe MySQL is not what you want. But MySQL licensing terms (for commercial usage) are much more flexible than Oracle's, especially if you want most bang for the buck for a small to medium database installation.
Also, Borland C++ 5.5 supports pre-compiled headers (bcc32 -H...), which is much faster than compiling WINDOWS.H every time you build.
It is not really that much faster. I found that the slowdown on Windows with Borland is actually windows process creation, not the compiler parsing windows.h!!!:)
This never works. You have to put a tarrif on salaries. Either pay the worker, or pay the gov't. The employer should have a choice.
If they pay the worker (which will happen since they would have to spend the money and would prefer getting "the best" in the region), then the worker would spend more and the standard of living in the other country goes up.
Currently, no one gains. China/India are just exporting deflation and Walmart plays a major part in that.
Anyway, global normalization of wages for multinational companies by intriducting a global minimum wage would fix most of the currenlt problems. It would take some time to implement though - maybe a decade or so...
For example, in Vietnam something like 90-95% of all people use non-legal version of Windows. MS revenues there are somewhere in the 100M range (mostly from gov't). BUT, almost no one heard of Linux!!
No matter how good Linux is and how bad Windows is, people first have to know what Linux is. Once Desktop adoption in any country is over 10% or so, then it is a very slippery slope for MS. That is one reason why they are fighting so hard to keep >99% or so of the i386 desktop.
That might now work very well. People will just think I'm trying to sell them something!!:)
Anyway, this does appear to stop traffic as it went down by over an order of magnitude. Most people don't want ofensive messages on their screen and they do something about it, like deleting adware and/or looking on the web to see how to remove it. You just have to get their attention.
The same thing with DRM. People will not see the problem until it bothers them.
The adware was wasting gigs and gigs per day. It was like 2-4 req./s on average at infinitum. Slashdot can't do that...
Actually, before filtering the logs from spyware, I could actually watch the number of people on internet with comcast.com and others. Nice, smooth curve of 200k hits per day.....
Some spyware kept accessing my IP address 216.194.67.61. But now I posted by own "ad" - it actually uses less bandwidth than the stupid 404 error as the spyware was just stupid and kept reloading wasting Gb per day.
Bulk transfers are not time sensitive - there is not guarantees about bandwidth. Isochronous transfers will take bandwidth away from bulk. This is not specific to 2.0 - 1.0 had the same thing. USB 2.0 just supports bigger data packets and more packets (8 per ms instead of 1, I think). Protocol did not change that much.
DVD burners might use isochronous transfers, but I doubt it. Very few devices use isochronous transfers because then they would have to deal with corrupted packets even though these are not common. Isochronous transfers were designed for audio data like VoIP phone. I made a little device that uses isochronous packets over USB 1.0. It is active for over a year now (a few billion packets) and 0 corrupted so far.
Each virtual connection (or endpoint) says how much data the device can send per packet. Computer can prevent enumeration of devices that will overflow the bus (or use 90% of it or more). At least they can, but probably do not do it.
They didn't hear of projectors to display their presentation? Or do they simply want to shift the cost from school buying the projector to students buying laptops?
Laptops in classroom is a stupid idea for exactly the reasons you indicated. Futhermore, you learn a little more if you actually have to copy things - learning is repetition (read: using your new "knowledge").
Yeap, even in computer science:) Classroom is suppose to be theory. You apply it outside the class not during.
Does USB still have the limitation of dividing the bus' time evenly between all devices regardless of how much bandwidth they're using?
No. This did not happen for longest time. There is a reason for isochronous transfers where bandwidth is important. They have priority over bulk transfers where bandwidth is just secondary.
Of course most of the high bandwidth devices use Bulk transfers because of automatic error correction (ie. retransmission).
OMG!! Yes, I want a fukcing Sr-90 in cell phones!!!
Look on the fucking periodic table. Sr-90 is almost chemically the same as calcium. So yeah, put it in my cell phone. Then your kinds will have it in their bones!!! I guess leukemia is a type of flu in your world.
Sr-90 is one of the *worst* contaminants.
google
Same thing for iodine-131
You already have to use steel that was forged before WWII to make high sensitivity radiation detectors. But that's not a problem, lets fuck up the planet (ie. us) so we can talk on the cell phone for 50 years!!!!!!
Use RTG in a very limited way for science, esp. for space probes where power is scarce. DO NOT USE IT IN A CELL PHONE!!!
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Seriously, save jail for violent offenders. There's not enough room as it is. Enron execs may be annoying, but they won't mug you on the street and rape your kids.
I would prefer spammers in jail even before Enron a**holes!! I bet that most people on Slashdot would too. The point is that spammers affect everyone that does not want to change their email address every 2 hours.
There is more loss from spam on the internet than there is from theft like in the Enron case. How?
If no one stops Ralsky, maybe we should form a posse and exert some mob-justice on Ralky ourselves.
Most commercial distros would like to keep the source code secret or at least modifications and software that makes these distributions unique. This is not something specific to Sun's Linux distro. Just look at Lindows (uhm, Linspire). They prefer to have a marketshare and not just, "I'm using Linux from Sun" or "I'm using Linux from Lindows". They want people to say, "I'm using Java Desktop. And what is Linux again?"
This is just a rip off from the kiddofspeed.com
On a remote collocated server, I would never run testing. On a local, internal server that I can fix at any time, I do run testing. On my machine, I run unstable (well, all Debian DD should :).
That is why I said that you run stable on machines that you need stable (not changing) software. Everyone that would like to help the next stable release be bug free should run testing, or even better, unstable (if you want testing to be bug free)
Testing is NOT limitted to developers. There is a reason why all mirrors do not only distribute the stable release.
If you want to have testing just as bug free as stable, then run unstable on your machine and report all bugs, especially the RC bugs. Then testing will remain relatively bug-free.
If you want stuff up to date, but want to have something that would be considered "stable" by other distros, you run Sarge (or testing).
The Woody distribution is for cases when you want to run a bunch of applications predictably. This means that your production application will run the same on day one as it does on day 100. An update will not break your application. An update will not change the way the application works. That is the point of stable - stable operation for a long period of time.
And yes, you can install 2.4.26 in Woody (from kernel.org). Woody actually has 2.4.x kernels no matter what the trolls are talking about.
Indeed,
Potential Health Effects
Exposure to hydrofluoric acid can produce harmful health effects that may not be immediately apparent.
Inhalation: Severely corrosive to the respiratory tract. May cause sore throat, coughing, labored breathing and lung congestion/inflammation.
Ingestion: Corrosive. May cause sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, severe burns of the digestive tract, and kidney dysfunction.
Skin Contact: Corrosive to the skin. Skin contact causes serious skin burns which may not be immediately apparent or painful. Symptoms may be delayed 8 hours or longer. The fluoride ion readily penetrates the skin causing destruction of deep tissue layers and even bone.
Eye Contact: Corrosive to the eyes. Symptoms of redness, pain, blurred vision, and permanent eye damage may occur.
Chronic Exposure: Intake of more than 6 mg of fluorine per day may result in fluorosis, bone and joint damage. Hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia can occur from absorption of fluoride ion into blood stream. Aggravation of Pre-existing Conditions: Persons with pre-existing skin disorders, eye problems, or impaired kidney or respiratory function may be more susceptible to the effects of this substance.
Eggs with that?
Uhhhm, why now just use the cluster to filter stuff, and then just map the mail to an internal SMTP server which moves the traffic to user accounts. That way your cluster will not need to use NFS, but just their own disks (which is faster, most of the time), and the internal SMTP server will not get loaded that much since it does nothing that CPU intensive (no filtering).
Personally, for mission critical stuff I would not trust MySQL or Oracle or PostgreSQL. I would just add another column with a MD5 sum or whatever. Then integrity can be checked in a reliable fashion (by mysqlf).
MySQL is a very fast database if the keys can fit in RAM. Today, RAM and CPU speed is not a problem as it once used to be. Differences between MySQL and Oracle are blurred.
Sure, if you need 20,000 connections to the same database, maybe MySQL is not what you want. But MySQL licensing terms (for commercial usage) are much more flexible than Oracle's, especially if you want most bang for the buck for a small to medium database installation.
It is not really that much faster. I found that the slowdown on Windows with Borland is actually windows process creation, not the compiler parsing windows.h!!! :)
If they pay the worker (which will happen since they would have to spend the money and would prefer getting "the best" in the region), then the worker would spend more and the standard of living in the other country goes up.
Currently, no one gains. China/India are just exporting deflation and Walmart plays a major part in that.
Anyway, global normalization of wages for multinational companies by intriducting a global minimum wage would fix most of the currenlt problems. It would take some time to implement though - maybe a decade or so...
THE fastest compiler ever. Compiled Qt in 20 minutes where g++ takes 3-4 hours! Visual C++ is at least twice as slow as Borland.
No matter how good Linux is and how bad Windows is, people first have to know what Linux is. Once Desktop adoption in any country is over 10% or so, then it is a very slippery slope for MS. That is one reason why they are fighting so hard to keep >99% or so of the i386 desktop.
Anyway, this does appear to stop traffic as it went down by over an order of magnitude. Most people don't want ofensive messages on their screen and they do something about it, like deleting adware and/or looking on the web to see how to remove it. You just have to get their attention.
The same thing with DRM. People will not see the problem until it bothers them.
But then people keep using the adware/spyware. This way the usage actually went down significatly.
Actually, before filtering the logs from spyware, I could actually watch the number of people on internet with comcast.com and others. Nice, smooth curve of 200k hits per day.....
216.194.67.61
Now the rate of spyware/adware requests is down from 2 per second to only 0.3 per second over the last few days :)
Bwhahaha, doing my part in teaching the public :)
Down about 10% today
DVD burners might use isochronous transfers, but I doubt it. Very few devices use isochronous transfers because then they would have to deal with corrupted packets even though these are not common. Isochronous transfers were designed for audio data like VoIP phone. I made a little device that uses isochronous packets over USB 1.0. It is active for over a year now (a few billion packets) and 0 corrupted so far.
Each virtual connection (or endpoint) says how much data the device can send per packet. Computer can prevent enumeration of devices that will overflow the bus (or use 90% of it or more). At least they can, but probably do not do it.
Laptops in classroom is a stupid idea for exactly the reasons you indicated. Futhermore, you learn a little more if you actually have to copy things - learning is repetition (read: using your new "knowledge").
Yeap, even in computer science :) Classroom is suppose to be theory. You apply it outside the class not during.
No. This did not happen for longest time. There is a reason for isochronous transfers where bandwidth is important. They have priority over bulk transfers where bandwidth is just secondary.
Of course most of the high bandwidth devices use Bulk transfers because of automatic error correction (ie. retransmission).
OMG!! Yes, I want a fukcing Sr-90 in cell phones!!!
Look on the fucking periodic table. Sr-90 is almost chemically the same as calcium. So yeah, put it in my cell phone. Then your kinds will have it in their bones!!! I guess leukemia is a type of flu in your world.
Sr-90 is one of the *worst* contaminants. google Same thing for iodine-131
You already have to use steel that was forged before WWII to make high sensitivity radiation detectors. But that's not a problem, lets fuck up the planet (ie. us) so we can talk on the cell phone for 50 years!!!!!!
Use RTG in a very limited way for science, esp. for space probes where power is scarce. DO NOT USE IT IN A CELL PHONE!!!
He got cut off probably because he was running an open-relay or something.
Indeed, they do appear to be running a desktop only version of a web server,
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://elementcomputer.com/
The following error was encountered:
* Connection Failed
The system returned:
(111) Connection refused