But that's the difference: it doesn't happen like that. On MacOS X, even when my computer is bogged down by some process, I get instant feedback for a command, whether the command is executed immediately or not. If I receive no feedback , which is very seldom, I am tempted to click on it again (and I do) because it appears as if the command was not received for some reason.
In such (extremely rare) cases, the command was not received, because the window manager did not capture it or something. This is consistent with my expectations: the intuitive reaction of clicking on the icon until I see feedback works as expected.
If spammers are attracted to the company's network, it may be because Verizon still allows customers to send e-mail on Port 25, the communications channel that is traditionally used by large organizations to send e-mail.
Port 25 is traditionally the one used to send e-mail. ALL e-mail. It is not the one used "by large corporations", it is the one used by everyone. If some ISPs change the port, that's fine, but it still does not change the fact that port 25 is the known port for SMTP transactions.
Most other large ISPs long ago stopped allowing customers to send mail on Port 25 because spammers typically set up junk e-mail relays on this port after infecting a computer with malware designed to convert the host system into a spam zombie.
A spammer can set up a "junk e-mail relay" on any port. The security has has nothing to do with the port.
Many ISPs have migrated customers away from Port 25 to sending and receiving e-mail on port 587, which - unlike Port 25 - requires the sender to authenticate him or herself with a username and password before it will permit the sending or relaying of e-mail.
WTF? Port 587 requires authentication? Port 25 does not?! The port is not some magical concept with special abilities. A port is just the communications channel used within the TCP/IP bandwidth. As an analogy, imagine if your cable company said "We had HBO in channel 20 and everybody was stealing it. We moved it to channel 42, because--as you know--channel 42 requires scrambling."
Switch ports. Wow! Why didn't anybody else think of that. That magical port 587, which is impervious to spam.
The ISP can set to require authentication on their SMTP server on any port. They could do this on port 25, though I'm sure that they would piss off some big clients in their network, if say, their e-mail stopped working one day. It's easier to push the cattle consumer to a different port and require authentication (arbitrarily, by them, not because of the port). After all, who cares if they complain; it's not as if Verizon answers its phones or offers proper customer service...
I'm sure that what Verizon is doing could be a Good Thing, but this article does not explain their reasoning properly. It makes it sound as if Verizon hit on a technological solution to the Spam problem, instead of saying what is really on their minds:
"We don't want to piss off our large clients by forcing everyone to authenticate and go through extra hoops to configure their system. So we'll offer a two tierred service: Large clients will continue using SMTP on port 25 as normal (inviting spam, as normal), and we'll force the rest of the users to use the SMTP ghetto on port 587. We don't even need to make the service on that port work well or reliably, since the big guys will still have the premium servers allocated on port 25."
According to his account, that was an analogy that he used himself to work out the "light problem" that bothered him: if the speed of light is constant, what would happen if a train was going at the speed of light and it turned on its headlight.
>> What if there had been no trains? Maybe Einstein would never have came up with his theories of General and Special Relativity and physics would be a lot less rich for it.
WTF? He probably would have thought of bicycles with mounted headlights.
His theory had less to do with the technology of the train than with the relative speed of (fast) moving objects. If not trains or bicycles, perhaps baseballs or horses.
I agree that these blocks seem like much ado about nothing.
Haha! The local Radio Shack in my neighborhood had their TRS-80's demo disks wiped almost weekly by some random ne'er-do-well with too much time on his hands and not enough quarters for the arcade.
You're right! Perhaps they can re-hire, at a cheaper salary of course, the 5,000 employees they were going to fire starting last month. And they can save a bundle by re-leasing the buildings to which they cancelled leases at the end of last year. I'm sure the landlords will have lowered the price by now.
Actually, after a few months of heavy traffic (fueld mostly by word of mouth and a few reviews from some techy web sites), customers would just wander into the store and realize that its empty, has a couple of dusty items on the shelves (which have not been touched in months, maybe years), and the bell to ring for service does not attract anybody's attention. There's a big bulletin board on the wall with lots of posts from other potential customers who happened to wander in; but most say things like "anybody still here?". The last one is dated a year ago.
Then they'll leave the store not realizing that everybody is hanging out at the new store next door, opened yesterday by two ex-employees of the first store.
For the record, I upgraded the memory on my (first generation) Mac Mini myself, and it turned out to be simpler than expected. The putty-knife thing, pffffft! I used a flat-head screwdriver and a butter knife to easily remove the cover from the bottom.
It was trully a breeze. And the DIMM cost me about $30.00 in crucial.com.
>> Well, maybe if you're autistic. SOME of us computer geeks are actually quite good at reading subtle cues that people give off in their posture, mannerisms, choice of clothing&makeup, etc., etc., etc.
Get your fact straight: there are three people who own Zunes. There was a rumour that one of them returned it and had it exchanged for an iPod, but it's not true; he just re-gifted it.
What do you mean, "a completely bogus computer scene"? Are you referring to the "This is UNIX, I know this!" scene? As stupid as it may look, that was a real UNIX file system called "fsn" (File System Navigator) from SGI for IRIX systems.
>> But, see, I don't understand why this is such an issue? Were they supposed to rewrite everything (read: break ALL past Windows programs not written specifically for Windows 7, you know how happy everyone would be about that) from the ground up?
Well, Apple did this with OS X. They created a temporary compatibility framework (Carbon) to acclimate developers into the new API. But for most old applications, you had to run them in "Classic Mac" mode, which was just a full installation of OS 9 (which was included with the OS X distribution on new computers).
Except Snow Leopard is not intended to apeace the masses that complained about the previous version of Leopard, nor to fix or change any broken frameworks or OS features that rejected by users. It is just a leaner and more optimized version of Leopard, since Apple is trying to leverage its OS X technology for current and future embedded devices.
If your current installation of Leopard runs fine, you don't have to upgrade; though it may be a good idea, in order to take advantage of any speed improvements.
Windows 7, on the other hand, is pretty much a service pack for Windows Vista. The name has been changed in order to draw attention away from the perception that Vista equals crap.
But what you seem to not understand yet is that, for many people, iTunes is a good product. Not the music store, iTunes the music player.
It may be unconscionable or inexcusable, as you say, to accept a lock-in with iTunes if you do not like iTunes. But for all those millions of people out there that are happy with it, there is no problem with this "lock-in".
I for one used iTunes before I even owned an iPod, and I thought it was a great music player and library organizer. I understand that other people like other programs, but I have tried many others, and eventually settled on iTunes because it did what I need it to do (which, by the way, did not then, nor ever, included using the iTunes Music Store). I don't play much with it: I ripped all my CDs a few years ago, imported them all in, and organized the songs with ctags Since then, all I do is sync and play music; so its supposed lack of features does not affect me one way or another. Once I received an iPod as a gift, syncing with iTunes felt natural, and I have enjoyed both products since.
I don't go around praising Apple or buying anything with their logo. I don't revere or admire Steve Jobs, yet I can still appreciate and enjoy iTunes; imagine that.
You mean the iPod? As far as I know it does have Drag-And-Drop functionality: you can mount it as a drive and use it to share files between computers.
I don't think it does that with the music library, though, but I use iTunes and see no need for it. For me there is great value in syncing my music in playlists (specially "smart" playlists), by checking boxes from the sync UI, instead of manually dragging them into a drive share.
But I can see how this may be perceived as a "missing feature" by others, especially if they aren't used to organizing their music dynamically with ctags.
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But WinNT 3 came out before Win 3.11, and before Win95; so the point still stands: those "rules" were not in place back then.
-dZ.
That's what she said.
Ha! Ha! Ha! H---uh, oh wait...
-dZ.
>> If you "were Microsoft" (were at Microsoft?)
NOTE: (were != where)
-dZ.
But that's the difference: it doesn't happen like that. On MacOS X, even when my computer is bogged down by some process, I get instant feedback for a command, whether the command is executed immediately or not. If I receive no feedback , which is very seldom, I am tempted to click on it again (and I do) because it appears as if the command was not received for some reason.
In such (extremely rare) cases, the command was not received, because the window manager did not capture it or something. This is consistent with my expectations: the intuitive reaction of clicking on the icon until I see feedback works as expected.
-dZ.
Modded "overrated"? Why is that?
-dZ.
This article makes no sense!
Port 25 is traditionally the one used to send e-mail. ALL e-mail. It is not the one used "by large corporations", it is the one used by everyone. If some ISPs change the port, that's fine, but it still does not change the fact that port 25 is the known port for SMTP transactions.
A spammer can set up a "junk e-mail relay" on any port. The security has has nothing to do with the port.
WTF? Port 587 requires authentication? Port 25 does not?! The port is not some magical concept with special abilities. A port is just the communications channel used within the TCP/IP bandwidth. As an analogy, imagine if your cable company said "We had HBO in channel 20 and everybody was stealing it. We moved it to channel 42, because--as you know--channel 42 requires scrambling."
Switch ports. Wow! Why didn't anybody else think of that. That magical port 587, which is impervious to spam.
The ISP can set to require authentication on their SMTP server on any port. They could do this on port 25, though I'm sure that they would piss off some big clients in their network, if say, their e-mail stopped working one day. It's easier to push the cattle consumer to a different port and require authentication (arbitrarily, by them, not because of the port). After all, who cares if they complain; it's not as if Verizon answers its phones or offers proper customer service...
I'm sure that what Verizon is doing could be a Good Thing, but this article does not explain their reasoning properly. It makes it sound as if Verizon hit on a technological solution to the Spam problem, instead of saying what is really on their minds:
"We don't want to piss off our large clients by forcing everyone to authenticate and go through extra hoops to configure their system. So we'll offer a two tierred service: Large clients will continue using SMTP on port 25 as normal (inviting spam, as normal), and we'll force the rest of the users to use the SMTP ghetto on port 587. We don't even need to make the service on that port work well or reliably, since the big guys will still have the premium servers allocated on port 25."
-dZ.
According to his account, that was an analogy that he used himself to work out the "light problem" that bothered him: if the speed of light is constant, what would happen if a train was going at the speed of light and it turned on its headlight.
-dZ.
Right. I was also thinking "great, now I gotta keep track of where I leave the frikkin' blocks, and make sure the cat keeps away from them."
-dZ.
>> What if there had been no trains? Maybe Einstein would never have came up with his theories of General and Special Relativity and physics would be a lot less rich for it.
WTF? He probably would have thought of bicycles with mounted headlights.
His theory had less to do with the technology of the train than with the relative speed of (fast) moving objects. If not trains or bicycles, perhaps baseballs or horses.
I agree that these blocks seem like much ado about nothing.
-dZ.
Haha! The local Radio Shack in my neighborhood had their TRS-80's demo disks wiped almost weekly by some random ne'er-do-well with too much time on his hands and not enough quarters for the arcade.
Thanks for the memories!
-dZ.
This from the one who cared enough to post an accusatory comment.
I, on the other hand, don't care. Oh wait...
-dZ.
You're right! Perhaps they can re-hire, at a cheaper salary of course, the 5,000 employees they were going to fire starting last month. And they can save a bundle by re-leasing the buildings to which they cancelled leases at the end of last year. I'm sure the landlords will have lowered the price by now.
-dZ.
Actually, after a few months of heavy traffic (fueld mostly by word of mouth and a few reviews from some techy web sites), customers would just wander into the store and realize that its empty, has a couple of dusty items on the shelves (which have not been touched in months, maybe years), and the bell to ring for service does not attract anybody's attention. There's a big bulletin board on the wall with lots of posts from other potential customers who happened to wander in; but most say things like "anybody still here?". The last one is dated a year ago.
Then they'll leave the store not realizing that everybody is hanging out at the new store next door, opened yesterday by two ex-employees of the first store.
-dZ.
Sure, pressumably by the same people who performed the market research for the Vista advertising campaign.
Good luck with that.
-dZ.
For the record, I upgraded the memory on my (first generation) Mac Mini myself, and it turned out to be simpler than expected. The putty-knife thing, pffffft! I used a flat-head screwdriver and a butter knife to easily remove the cover from the bottom.
It was trully a breeze. And the DIMM cost me about $30.00 in crucial.com.
-dZ.
>> Well, maybe if you're autistic. SOME of us computer geeks are actually quite good at reading subtle cues that people give off in their posture, mannerisms, choice of clothing&makeup, etc., etc., etc.
Haha! That explains a lot.
Well, that and the fact that you are posting in /.
-dZ.
Get your fact straight: there are three people who own Zunes. There was a rumour that one of them returned it and had it exchanged for an iPod, but it's not true; he just re-gifted it.
He did get an iPod, though.
-dZ.
What do you mean, "a completely bogus computer scene"? Are you referring to the "This is UNIX, I know this!" scene? As stupid as it may look, that was a real UNIX file system called "fsn" (File System Navigator) from SGI for IRIX systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
http://www.slipups.com/items/2786.html
-dZ.
>> But, see, I don't understand why this is such an issue? Were they supposed to rewrite everything (read: break ALL past Windows programs not written specifically for Windows 7, you know how happy everyone would be about that) from the ground up?
Well, Apple did this with OS X. They created a temporary compatibility framework (Carbon) to acclimate developers into the new API. But for most old applications, you had to run them in "Classic Mac" mode, which was just a full installation of OS 9 (which was included with the OS X distribution on new computers).
So it's not completely unheard of.
-dZ.
Except Snow Leopard is not intended to apeace the masses that complained about the previous version of Leopard, nor to fix or change any broken frameworks or OS features that rejected by users. It is just a leaner and more optimized version of Leopard, since Apple is trying to leverage its OS X technology for current and future embedded devices.
If your current installation of Leopard runs fine, you don't have to upgrade; though it may be a good idea, in order to take advantage of any speed improvements.
Windows 7, on the other hand, is pretty much a service pack for Windows Vista. The name has been changed in order to draw attention away from the perception that Vista equals crap.
-dZ.
Ok, how about this:
"Oh come on, what will they do next, marry their parents, sisters, or children?"
-dZ.
So, begin gay is a race, gender or religion?
And here I was thinking that it was a sexual preference.
-dZ.
>> (hey, at least it ain't a Hitler reference!)
Oooh... so close!
-dZ.
But what you seem to not understand yet is that, for many people, iTunes is a good product. Not the music store, iTunes the music player.
It may be unconscionable or inexcusable, as you say, to accept a lock-in with iTunes if you do not like iTunes. But for all those millions of people out there that are happy with it, there is no problem with this "lock-in".
I for one used iTunes before I even owned an iPod, and I thought it was a great music player and library organizer. I understand that other people like other programs, but I have tried many others, and eventually settled on iTunes because it did what I need it to do (which, by the way, did not then, nor ever, included using the iTunes Music Store). I don't play much with it: I ripped all my CDs a few years ago, imported them all in, and organized the songs with ctags Since then, all I do is sync and play music; so its supposed lack of features does not affect me one way or another. Once I received an iPod as a gift, syncing with iTunes felt natural, and I have enjoyed both products since.
I don't go around praising Apple or buying anything with their logo. I don't revere or admire Steve Jobs, yet I can still appreciate and enjoy iTunes; imagine that.
-dZ.
You mean the iPod? As far as I know it does have Drag-And-Drop functionality: you can mount it as a drive and use it to share files between computers.
I don't think it does that with the music library, though, but I use iTunes and see no need for it. For me there is great value in syncing my music in playlists (specially "smart" playlists), by checking boxes from the sync UI, instead of manually dragging them into a drive share.
But I can see how this may be perceived as a "missing feature" by others, especially if they aren't used to organizing their music dynamically with ctags.
-dZ.