There are lots of different greylist implementations, with different configuration abilities and defaults.
It should be possible to configure the greylist server to have only a five-minute (or even one-minute) waiting period, which is much more reasonable than 15 minutes.
I have noticed that greylisting isn't quite as effective as it once was, because lots of spammers are actually using real queueing mail senders now. But it still has a lot of effectiveness.
The main advantage I can see is that it allows coding in languages other than ActionScript -- theoretically, anything that runs on the CLR/DLR.
(A Microsoft guy was promoting Silverlight at a Ruby conference I went to, and was showing off coding in Ruby on Silverlight using IronRuby. I gave him a bit of a hard time about patents and such.)
1. Some types of apps will never be in the App Store, including those that do any background work, those that Apple sees as threatening the security of the device, or those that may threaten Apple's business model in any way. 2. As far as I know there's no way to put music on the un-jailbroken iPhone without using iTunes, which leaves Linux users out in the cold. (Don't bother with Wine.)
My most-used jailbreak apps include: a full-text copy of Wikipedia, a tool to sync to Google Calendar, an alternate UI for the music player, a live Last.fm scrobbler, a way to play arbitrary videos copied from my computer, a detailed wi-fi detector, and a podcast downloader/player. Most of those wouldn't be allowed on the App Store.
The one AppStore-only app that interests me is Pandora.
Yes and no. I have an iPod Touch (iPhone without the phone), and I like that it's easy to get accessories, but I don't like iTunes, and I want nothing to do with Apple's online store. On the other hand, the underground jailbreak-apps community is great (though in danger of being killed off by the App store).
The potential with Android is that there could be a similar independent community of developers.
As for Apple's integration.... I tried to go to apple.com/trailers yesterday with Mobile Safari, and the page locked up on me. I couldn't even try to view a trailer.
OpenDNS returns their own search page for bad lookups, rather than NXDOMAIN, breaking various things. They also send queries for www.google.com to their own server. (I wrote about this recently.)
We need a Firefox extension that will add a toolbar under the location bar to always show who owns the certificate. Maybe also do a whois query and show who owns the domain.
.mov is QuickTime, which is old and not proprietary; I have a book here describing the format. However, that's just the container format; it's the codecs commonly used within QT these days that are proprietary.
And according to mplayer, the codecs used here are mp4v for video, and aac for audio. In other words, (tada!) MPEG.
I've had a web presence with my real name since the mid-90s. Back when Altavista was the dominant search engine I discovered that there were at least two other people showing up in searches that weren't me. So I started a page on my site listing not-me attributes that were showing up in a search for me. I haven't kept up with it though.
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My evidence is the last two years that my colleagues and I have been developing in Rails, increasingly realizing we could handle much larger and more complex applications than we could in our PHP days.
This has nothing to do with the startup cost.
PHP, meanwhile, is now relegated to the land of trivial apps, if we use it at all.
As for scaling: Again, my experience is that Rails makes the programmer happy while giving some new challenges to the sysadmin who has to deploy the thing.
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I don't think it's a question of large vs small projects; Rails actually makes the programmer's life better in large projects. But enterprise deployment can be a hassle with Rails. There are a lot of people working on solving the problem in various ways. I think the most interesting and promising of these right now is to run the Rails app on JRuby, as a Java servlet.
My ISP (Embarq DSL) does this too. But since I'm using DD-WRT on my router, I can bypass it. DD-WRT includes dnsmasq for DNS forwarding, and ever since Network Solutions tried the same scam on the entire.com TLD a while back, dnsmasq has included the option (bogus-nxdomain) to specify IP addresses that, when returned from upstream DNS, result in a "no such domain" error being returned to your computer.
Who said anything about desire? This is Microsoft. They have money and power. A full sixth of the world population will be forced or bribed to code for them. This is their latest plan for beating Open Source.
I'm a professional web developer, and I stopped worrying about IE 5 about a year ago. None of my clients seem to have noticed or cared. They're happy as long as IE 6 works (and Firefox if I'm lucky, and soon IE7, though they're generally not there yet).
My web stats aren't showing much if any IE 5 traffic either.
One thing that helps a lot is to do color-calibration on both monitors. That way you can get the two screens to have close to the same color and brightness.
Another is to use a trackball instead of a mouse, so just a flick can fling the pointer over to the other screen. (I like Microsoft's Trackball Explorer best.)
At work I have a 19" CRT and a 17" Dell LCD side by side. Same viewable area, but the LCD has higher resolution and sharper pixels. The CRT is a bit brighter and has slightly better color. I use the LCD for my text editing, command-lines, and email, and I use the CRT for web pages and graphics editing.
I'm using X11 in old-fashioned dual-screen mode rather than Xinerama mode, so I can switch virtual desktops separately for each screen.
It sounds like this radio series includes Arthur and Ford appearing in the Cricket match on the Chesterfield, which would seem to imply that it goes by the books rather than the old radio series. (Otherwise Ford and Arthur wouldn't be together.)
I hope they manage to link it with the old radio series somehow though. On the other hand, I've always loved the Chesterfield scene on prehistoric Earth.
As for the movie and TV series, the main things I thought were awful about the TV series were Trillian's voice and the special effects. Anyway, the movie production has nothing to do with the TV series production, so the comparison doesn't make much sense.
Before the TV series, "What A Wonderful World" was played at the end of the first radio series. (In both cases it was when Arthur and Ford were stranded on prehistoric Earth.)
If both cars burn a gallon to go 30 miles, then (correct me if I'm wrong, someone, please!) by definition they've released the same amount of CO2, H2O and the rest into the atmosphere.
RTFA. The whole reason for the discrepancy between the EPA estimates and real-world experiences is that the EPA looks at the emissions and estimates from there. Since the hybrid cars burn much cleaner, the EPA's estimate assumes they get much higher MPG too. Turns out they don't get much higher MPG, but they do burn those gallons more efficiently.
More efficiently in this context means the exhaust has more water and less CO2, CO, and unburned gas fumes.
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There are lots of different greylist implementations, with different configuration abilities and defaults.
It should be possible to configure the greylist server to have only a five-minute (or even one-minute) waiting period, which is much more reasonable than 15 minutes.
I have noticed that greylisting isn't quite as effective as it once was, because lots of spammers are actually using real queueing mail senders now. But it still has a lot of effectiveness.
See http://greylisting.org/ for more details on the concept. I personally use postgrey.
The main advantage I can see is that it allows coding in languages other than ActionScript -- theoretically, anything that runs on the CLR/DLR.
(A Microsoft guy was promoting Silverlight at a Ruby conference I went to, and was showing off coding in Ruby on Silverlight using IronRuby. I gave him a bit of a hard time about patents and such.)
1. Some types of apps will never be in the App Store, including those that do any background work, those that Apple sees as threatening the security of the device, or those that may threaten Apple's business model in any way.
2. As far as I know there's no way to put music on the un-jailbroken iPhone without using iTunes, which leaves Linux users out in the cold. (Don't bother with Wine.)
My most-used jailbreak apps include: a full-text copy of Wikipedia, a tool to sync to Google Calendar, an alternate UI for the music player, a live Last.fm scrobbler, a way to play arbitrary videos copied from my computer, a detailed wi-fi detector, and a podcast downloader/player. Most of those wouldn't be allowed on the App Store.
The one AppStore-only app that interests me is Pandora.
Yes and no. I have an iPod Touch (iPhone without the phone), and I like that it's easy to get accessories, but I don't like iTunes, and I want nothing to do with Apple's online store. On the other hand, the underground jailbreak-apps community is great (though in danger of being killed off by the App store).
The potential with Android is that there could be a similar independent community of developers.
As for Apple's integration.... I tried to go to apple.com/trailers yesterday with Mobile Safari, and the page locked up on me. I couldn't even try to view a trailer.
Er, this isn't the same guy who discovered the DNS flaw.
OpenDNS returns their own search page for bad lookups, rather than NXDOMAIN, breaking various things. They also send queries for www.google.com to their own server. (I wrote about this recently.)
We need a Firefox extension that will add a toolbar under the location bar to always show who owns the certificate. Maybe also do a whois query and show who owns the domain.
.mov is QuickTime, which is old and not proprietary; I have a book here describing the format. However, that's just the container format; it's the codecs commonly used within QT these days that are proprietary.
And according to mplayer, the codecs used here are mp4v for video, and aac for audio. In other words, (tada!) MPEG.
I've had a web presence with my real name since the mid-90s. Back when Altavista was the dominant search engine I discovered that there were at least two other people showing up in searches that weren't me. So I started a page on my site listing not-me attributes that were showing up in a search for me. I haven't kept up with it though.
Apparently you can fit an offline copy of Wikipedia in 2GB on an iPhone or iPod-Touch.
http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone/
Yup. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RhapsodySetup
I synch together a SlimDevices Squeezebox v3, an old SLIMP3, and a couple machines running the SoftSqueeze Java client, all clients to a server running the SlimServer/SqueezeCenter Perl server.
My evidence is the last two years that my colleagues and I have been developing in Rails, increasingly realizing we could handle much larger and more complex applications than we could in our PHP days.
This has nothing to do with the startup cost.
PHP, meanwhile, is now relegated to the land of trivial apps, if we use it at all.
As for scaling: Again, my experience is that Rails makes the programmer happy while giving some new challenges to the sysadmin who has to deploy the thing.
I don't think it's a question of large vs small projects; Rails actually makes the programmer's life better in large projects. But enterprise deployment can be a hassle with Rails. There are a lot of people working on solving the problem in various ways. I think the most interesting and promising of these right now is to run the Rails app on JRuby, as a Java servlet.
My ISP (Embarq DSL) does this too. But since I'm using DD-WRT on my router, I can bypass it. DD-WRT includes dnsmasq for DNS forwarding, and ever since Network Solutions tried the same scam on the entire .com TLD a while back, dnsmasq has included the option (bogus-nxdomain) to specify IP addresses that, when returned from upstream DNS, result in a "no such domain" error being returned to your computer.
You sure that's not just another example of automatic domain-tasting?
Who said anything about desire? This is Microsoft. They have money and power. A full sixth of the world population will be forced or bribed to code for them. This is their latest plan for beating Open Source.
I'm a professional web developer, and I stopped worrying about IE 5 about a year ago. None of my clients seem to have noticed or cared. They're happy as long as IE 6 works (and Firefox if I'm lucky, and soon IE7, though they're generally not there yet).
My web stats aren't showing much if any IE 5 traffic either.
You can still use the controls on the monitors to calibrate them visually, given the right images on screen.
One thing that helps a lot is to do color-calibration on both monitors. That way you can get the two screens to have close to the same color and brightness.
Another is to use a trackball instead of a mouse, so just a flick can fling the pointer over to the other screen. (I like Microsoft's Trackball Explorer best.)
At work I have a 19" CRT and a 17" Dell LCD side by side. Same viewable area, but the LCD has higher resolution and sharper pixels. The CRT is a bit brighter and has slightly better color. I use the LCD for my text editing, command-lines, and email, and I use the CRT for web pages and graphics editing.
I'm using X11 in old-fashioned dual-screen mode rather than Xinerama mode, so I can switch virtual desktops separately for each screen.
It sounds like this radio series includes Arthur and Ford appearing in the Cricket match on the Chesterfield, which would seem to imply that it goes by the books rather than the old radio series. (Otherwise Ford and Arthur wouldn't be together.)
I hope they manage to link it with the old radio series somehow though. On the other hand, I've always loved the Chesterfield scene on prehistoric Earth.
As for the movie and TV series, the main things I thought were awful about the TV series were Trillian's voice and the special effects. Anyway, the movie production has nothing to do with the TV series production, so the comparison doesn't make much sense.
Before the TV series, "What A Wonderful World" was played at the end of the first radio series.
(In both cases it was when Arthur and Ford were stranded on prehistoric Earth.)
RTFA. The whole reason for the discrepancy between the EPA estimates and real-world experiences is that the EPA looks at the emissions and estimates from there. Since the hybrid cars burn much cleaner, the EPA's estimate assumes they get much higher MPG too. Turns out they don't get much higher MPG, but they do burn those gallons more efficiently.
More efficiently in this context means the exhaust has more water and less CO2, CO, and unburned gas fumes.