Where did I say stop playing? Or maybe you are one of the morons that missed the definition of PLAYING. Wake up from the dream that they are athletes and what they are doing is a sport. Grow up because their immaturity obviously has them living in that dream.
Quite a few people that I used to consider friends were drawn in by that "esports" hype bullshit. I made sure to disassociated myself from their immature asses.
All the "cyberathlete" bullshit is about half of what drove me away from CS (and HL mods in general). I'm sure its great to make money playing games, but "esports" and "cyberathletes", give me a break. The CS community needs to wake up, and grow up.
I never use my desktop either. I do keep a nice background image on it most of the time though. Why not? It's nice to see when I do have to go to the desktop for whatever reason. Oddly, I use mIRC as my desktop. I've just been using IRC for a long time, and eventually it got to the point where I just left it open 24/7. I hardly even chat on IRC anymore, but mIRC's scripting language is so flexible, and a hell of a lot more customizable than Windows as a whole. It's pretty much infinitely customizable. Quick launch toolbar is also really helpful. I keep my most common used programs linked on it.
I guess it could be said that I'm a PC neat freak. I try to keep clutter to a minimum. I can't stand too many things in the system tray. Theres usually never more than 3 icons in it - Asus Probe, Winamp, and ICQ (which I never leave open too long, only use it when I have to.)
I run a small hosting business, and by default, my accounts come with a catch-all that forwards to the admin account. I disable it on my personal domains, forwarding it to the site blackhole (basically/dev/null). I used to use it to get mail for a number of different names (info, sales, ect.), but it ended up saving me from quite a bit of spam to just alias those names instead.
If any of my customers ever complain about spam from the catch-all (and at this time, none have), I will tell them how to disable it in a heartbeat. I leave the decision to my customers, but really, catch-alls are pretty useless when I offer unlimited free aliases.
You can't say they aren't trying. They certainly got my attention recently, and I never paid any attention to them before. I signed up for a free "Linux Technical Resource Kit", from them. It includes, quoting them:
This comprehensive Novell Linux collection includes the following on 3 DVDs (10 GB):
- SUSE Linux Professional 9.1 (Bootable Installation DVD) - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (ISO Installation Images) - SUSE Linux Professional 8.2 (Installation ISO images for use with Ximiam Desktop) - Ximian Desktop 2.0 Evaluation (ISO Image) - Red Carpet 2.0.2 Evaluation (ISO Image) - GroupWise for Linux 6.5.1 - Server, Client & Messenger (ISO Images) - Novell Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 (ISO Image & NLS Companion CD) - And more...
I look forward to trying out SUSE Enterprise Server 8, as I am / was considering moving to Fedora. Sorry, if you're interested, they aren't offering it anymore. Link Here
I understand what people are saying about CLI whois clients, I use them myself, but you know there has be _some_ harvesters that use http. If a registrar stops just one harvester bot from grabbing my email address, then I'd be happy. One harvester bot can mean one thousand spam messages.
I perfectly grasp the intentions of the whois system, but when they designed it they didn't take harvesting bots into account. Not to mention other privacy concerns. Some registrars offer a privacy service, but for a price. I've never heard of that causing a problem. The prices are rediculous though, usually costing more than the domain itself.
How would I change it? I would make it where _public_ contact info is OPTIONAL and a lot more versatile. So I could say, give my address but not my phone number. Or if I wanted just have everything confidential. In my case, the registrar is the only one that needs, and the only one I want to know my contact information. If someone has an abuse problem with a domain, take it up with the registrar. If someone has an abuse complaint about the site content, they don't need the domain contact information, they need to contact the hosting provider.
It is simply not logical or desirable for contact information to remain public anymore. I'm sick of all of the spam I get from it. Both email and snail mail. If I used my real phone number I wouldn't be surprised if I got telemarketing calls too.
The whois system needs to be changed. Contact information shouldn't even be public in the first place. Having my contact info on domains has never done me any good in the least.
They'll impress me when they PUT SOME FUCKING SECURITY ON THE WHOIS SEARCH. Stupid ass companies like Network Solutions are the reason at least 50% of my spam is sent to a DOMAIN REGISTRATION ONLY email address.
Would it be terribly difficult to implement a system like whois.sc, where it shows images of your email address instead of text? I think not. I could probably do it and I'm a pretty green PHP coder.
Like others have mentioned, this is probably useless. Microsoft more than likely won't put it in IE. So you'd be better off just using a self-issued cert. Even if every non-IE browser adds it, that still isn't enough for most anyone that needs to have secure webpages.
I use and love Firefox personally, but if a cert doesn't work without popping up "untrusted alerts", free or not, it is quite useless to me.
SpamAssassin has been a life saver. A few months back my server started taking a spam pounding. My personal spam alone went from just a couple a day, to at least 15 a day (I know thats not much for some of you, but it is for me, I've always been smart about where I give my email address. Unfortunately, I have to give an address that shows on domain whois databases and thats mostly where they get me). So I installed MailScanner, SpamAssassin, and ClamAV. I have it set to tag email only, but that works fine, I just filter spam to a spam folder in OE and occasionally take a quick glance to see if it caught any non-spam emails before I empty it. So far it has only caught one email I wanted to received, and it looked so much like one big ad that I understood why.
I only use my Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to sign up for things I either know I'm going to get spam from, or I think there is a risk of it. That is what I think most use their free accounts for. Considering that my bulk mail folder at Yahoo has at least 50 spam emails in it a day, I am glad I have a throw-away account with them.
Wow, the point totally flew over your heard. If you are going to just skim a person's post, don't even bother to reply.
I don't give a damn what games run on Linux other than MINE, and I'm sure most others feel the same way, so the whole listing of ones that do work is pointless. Not all of the ones I play would work even in Wine/WineX. Since gaming is pretty much the #1 use of my computer, why the hell would I switch to an OS which not only doesn't natively support my games, but which I have to PURCHASE an application to play my games on (WineX)? I'm the CONSUMER, that means the developers have to change for ME. Period. If they don't want to do that, I don't want to use their OS. Now magnify my feelings times thousands, and you end up with a useless OS.
If you actually read my post you would see that I blamed mostly the game developers, not the distros, but the distros have made little effort to entice the game devs into using Linux. They don't seem to care about games, even though, like I mentioned previously, PC gamers drive the whole damn PC industry. As for your DirectX argument: make the alternative, OpenGL, better. To expect DirectX to play nice with Linux is to expect pigs to fly. Developers will use what is easiest and most featured packed for their games, and obviously OpenGL ain't it.
It is quite obvious that you aren't a gamer. The one and only thing keeping me from switching to Linux is the lack of game support. I don't want to just play one built-in game, wtf kind of boring geek are you? I don't want to hear that wine bullshit either, I want ALL of my games to work natively or its useless to me. Gamers drive the PC industry as a whole, it only makes sense to focus on them. I know it isn't all the distros' faults, it's mostly the developers' faults IMO, but they sure havn't tried very hard have they?
I really like Linux and despite all of the trouble it may be to switch to it from Windows, I would do it in a heartbeat and adapt if I could just play my games on it. However, the elitists are too stubborn to change; they want everyone to change for them, and then they still want people to switch from Windows. It won't work like that, they have to meet it in the middle somewhere. Because of their unwillingness to change, I don't expect we'll see very many native games on Linux for a long long time... if ever.
I think this guy and most of the people that replied to his post either exaggerate or rely far too much on CSS. Perhaps both. It is not that hard to make a webpage cross-browser compatible. HTML is simplicity, use it, and get over the CSS elitism bullshit already.
It wouldn't be a novelty. It would actually be useful, if like you say, it has enough storage capacity (I'd be happy with 512KB to 1MB personally). I was working on something just yesterday where I had to go back and forth from a computer in another room to this one, and I was actually wishing I could somehow copy and paste between two different comps. I ended up having to use a slow ass floppy disk.
It may seem that simple, but for a lot of people it isn't. I have only had NVidia cards, but my next one, if I have a choice (and I probably will), WILL be an ATI card. Not because anything was particularly wrong with my NVidia cards, they are still running actually, but because I think that ATI's cards in the range I want to buy in, are superior. Plus I'd like to try an ATI card at least once. I can't make any true judgements or be a fan boy for one particular brand when I've not tried them both.
Right, and I bet the majority of those dialup users use their dialup ISPs built-in email client, or webmail. I also bet that the majority are technically challenged and would not be downloading a different email client when Outlook Express is sitting in plain view.
Furthermore, your cowardliness, don't you think the coders want to hear about features that people want / don't want? However insignificant? I should think they do, or they wouldn't be coding it at all. A minor annoyance is STILL an annoyance. The only way they can change things is if people speak up about it.
Why do people always try to force their standards and opinions on everyone else? I've used POP3 for a long time and I don't have a problem with it. I like to go by the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" saying. I'm sure I'll be using IMAP, but I will switch to it when and because _I_ want to switch, not because some big mouth says I should.
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Where did I say stop playing? Or maybe you are one of the morons that missed the definition of PLAYING. Wake up from the dream that they are athletes and what they are doing is a sport. Grow up because their immaturity obviously has them living in that dream.
Quite a few people that I used to consider friends were drawn in by that "esports" hype bullshit. I made sure to disassociated myself from their immature asses.
All the "cyberathlete" bullshit is about half of what drove me away from CS (and HL mods in general). I'm sure its great to make money playing games, but "esports" and "cyberathletes", give me a break. The CS community needs to wake up, and grow up.
I wouldn't use Yahoo even if I was at their site already. I have Google set as my homepage since I use every day at least once.
I never use my desktop either. I do keep a nice background image on it most of the time though. Why not? It's nice to see when I do have to go to the desktop for whatever reason. Oddly, I use mIRC as my desktop. I've just been using IRC for a long time, and eventually it got to the point where I just left it open 24/7. I hardly even chat on IRC anymore, but mIRC's scripting language is so flexible, and a hell of a lot more customizable than Windows as a whole. It's pretty much infinitely customizable. Quick launch toolbar is also really helpful. I keep my most common used programs linked on it.
I guess it could be said that I'm a PC neat freak. I try to keep clutter to a minimum. I can't stand too many things in the system tray. Theres usually never more than 3 icons in it - Asus Probe, Winamp, and ICQ (which I never leave open too long, only use it when I have to.)
I run a small hosting business, and by default, my accounts come with a catch-all that forwards to the admin account. I disable it on my personal domains, forwarding it to the site blackhole (basically /dev/null). I used to use it to get mail for a number of different names (info, sales, ect.), but it ended up saving me from quite a bit of spam to just alias those names instead.
If any of my customers ever complain about spam from the catch-all (and at this time, none have), I will tell them how to disable it in a heartbeat. I leave the decision to my customers, but really, catch-alls are pretty useless when I offer unlimited free aliases.
You can't say they aren't trying. They certainly got my attention recently, and I never paid any attention to them before. I signed up for a free "Linux Technical Resource Kit", from them. It includes, quoting them:
This comprehensive Novell Linux collection includes the following on 3 DVDs (10 GB):
- SUSE Linux Professional 9.1 (Bootable Installation DVD)
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (ISO Installation Images)
- SUSE Linux Professional 8.2 (Installation ISO images for use with Ximiam Desktop)
- Ximian Desktop 2.0 Evaluation (ISO Image)
- Red Carpet 2.0.2 Evaluation (ISO Image)
- GroupWise for Linux 6.5.1 - Server, Client & Messenger (ISO Images)
- Novell Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 (ISO Image & NLS Companion CD)
- And more...
I look forward to trying out SUSE Enterprise Server 8, as I am / was considering moving to Fedora. Sorry, if you're interested, they aren't offering it anymore. Link Here
I understand what people are saying about CLI whois clients, I use them myself, but you know there has be _some_ harvesters that use http. If a registrar stops just one harvester bot from grabbing my email address, then I'd be happy. One harvester bot can mean one thousand spam messages.
I perfectly grasp the intentions of the whois system, but when they designed it they didn't take harvesting bots into account. Not to mention other privacy concerns. Some registrars offer a privacy service, but for a price. I've never heard of that causing a problem. The prices are rediculous though, usually costing more than the domain itself.
How would I change it? I would make it where _public_ contact info is OPTIONAL and a lot more versatile. So I could say, give my address but not my phone number. Or if I wanted just have everything confidential. In my case, the registrar is the only one that needs, and the only one I want to know my contact information. If someone has an abuse problem with a domain, take it up with the registrar. If someone has an abuse complaint about the site content, they don't need the domain contact information, they need to contact the hosting provider.
It is simply not logical or desirable for contact information to remain public anymore. I'm sick of all of the spam I get from it. Both email and snail mail. If I used my real phone number I wouldn't be surprised if I got telemarketing calls too.
The whois system needs to be changed. Contact information shouldn't even be public in the first place. Having my contact info on domains has never done me any good in the least.
And I should care why? I don't mean to be rude, but seriously, I'd rather you not see it than you and every harvester be able to see it.
Good point. Not just cPanel, but Ensim too. I'm pretty sure Ensim still uses RedHat exclusively, too.
They'll impress me when they PUT SOME FUCKING SECURITY ON THE WHOIS SEARCH. Stupid ass companies like Network Solutions are the reason at least 50% of my spam is sent to a DOMAIN REGISTRATION ONLY email address.
Would it be terribly difficult to implement a system like whois.sc, where it shows images of your email address instead of text? I think not. I could probably do it and I'm a pretty green PHP coder.
A typo on my linux server that resulted in me typing rm -rf /*
:\
I've forgotten what I meant to type that resulted in that typo, but I am more careful when I use rm -rf anymore, for sure.
Like others have mentioned, this is probably useless. Microsoft more than likely won't put it in IE. So you'd be better off just using a self-issued cert. Even if every non-IE browser adds it, that still isn't enough for most anyone that needs to have secure webpages.
I use and love Firefox personally, but if a cert doesn't work without popping up "untrusted alerts", free or not, it is quite useless to me.
I think people SHOULD be sent to jail for releasing such movies. Have you seen how crappy looking they are? Just wait for the DVD you impatient fucks.
SpamAssassin has been a life saver. A few months back my server started taking a spam pounding. My personal spam alone went from just a couple a day, to at least 15 a day (I know thats not much for some of you, but it is for me, I've always been smart about where I give my email address. Unfortunately, I have to give an address that shows on domain whois databases and thats mostly where they get me). So I installed MailScanner, SpamAssassin, and ClamAV. I have it set to tag email only, but that works fine, I just filter spam to a spam folder in OE and occasionally take a quick glance to see if it caught any non-spam emails before I empty it. So far it has only caught one email I wanted to received, and it looked so much like one big ad that I understood why.
I only use my Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to sign up for things I either know I'm going to get spam from, or I think there is a risk of it. That is what I think most use their free accounts for. Considering that my bulk mail folder at Yahoo has at least 50 spam emails in it a day, I am glad I have a throw-away account with them.
Wow, the point totally flew over your heard. If you are going to just skim a person's post, don't even bother to reply. I don't give a damn what games run on Linux other than MINE, and I'm sure most others feel the same way, so the whole listing of ones that do work is pointless. Not all of the ones I play would work even in Wine/WineX. Since gaming is pretty much the #1 use of my computer, why the hell would I switch to an OS which not only doesn't natively support my games, but which I have to PURCHASE an application to play my games on (WineX)? I'm the CONSUMER, that means the developers have to change for ME. Period. If they don't want to do that, I don't want to use their OS. Now magnify my feelings times thousands, and you end up with a useless OS. If you actually read my post you would see that I blamed mostly the game developers, not the distros, but the distros have made little effort to entice the game devs into using Linux. They don't seem to care about games, even though, like I mentioned previously, PC gamers drive the whole damn PC industry. As for your DirectX argument: make the alternative, OpenGL, better. To expect DirectX to play nice with Linux is to expect pigs to fly. Developers will use what is easiest and most featured packed for their games, and obviously OpenGL ain't it.
It is quite obvious that you aren't a gamer. The one and only thing keeping me from switching to Linux is the lack of game support. I don't want to just play one built-in game, wtf kind of boring geek are you? I don't want to hear that wine bullshit either, I want ALL of my games to work natively or its useless to me. Gamers drive the PC industry as a whole, it only makes sense to focus on them. I know it isn't all the distros' faults, it's mostly the developers' faults IMO, but they sure havn't tried very hard have they?
I really like Linux and despite all of the trouble it may be to switch to it from Windows, I would do it in a heartbeat and adapt if I could just play my games on it. However, the elitists are too stubborn to change; they want everyone to change for them, and then they still want people to switch from Windows. It won't work like that, they have to meet it in the middle somewhere. Because of their unwillingness to change, I don't expect we'll see very many native games on Linux for a long long time... if ever.
I think this guy and most of the people that replied to his post either exaggerate or rely far too much on CSS. Perhaps both. It is not that hard to make a webpage cross-browser compatible. HTML is simplicity, use it, and get over the CSS elitism bullshit already.
It wouldn't be a novelty. It would actually be useful, if like you say, it has enough storage capacity (I'd be happy with 512KB to 1MB personally). I was working on something just yesterday where I had to go back and forth from a computer in another room to this one, and I was actually wishing I could somehow copy and paste between two different comps. I ended up having to use a slow ass floppy disk.
"What's the point of rewarding those who didn't give the company a single penny?"
:)
Ever consider they did give MS money on some of their older piece of crap OS's, like WinME? If you ask me, MS deserves to suffer for that one.
It may seem that simple, but for a lot of people it isn't. I have only had NVidia cards, but my next one, if I have a choice (and I probably will), WILL be an ATI card. Not because anything was particularly wrong with my NVidia cards, they are still running actually, but because I think that ATI's cards in the range I want to buy in, are superior. Plus I'd like to try an ATI card at least once. I can't make any true judgements or be a fan boy for one particular brand when I've not tried them both.
Right, and I bet the majority of those dialup users use their dialup ISPs built-in email client, or webmail. I also bet that the majority are technically challenged and would not be downloading a different email client when Outlook Express is sitting in plain view.
Furthermore, your cowardliness, don't you think the coders want to hear about features that people want / don't want? However insignificant? I should think they do, or they wouldn't be coding it at all. A minor annoyance is STILL an annoyance. The only way they can change things is if people speak up about it.
Now go troll elsewhere, prick.
Why do people always try to force their standards and opinions on everyone else? I've used POP3 for a long time and I don't have a problem with it. I like to go by the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" saying. I'm sure I'll be using IMAP, but I will switch to it when and because _I_ want to switch, not because some big mouth says I should.