2 failures in nine years? You must be pretty lucky.
Then again, I'm cursed. In about 5 or 6 years I've had four hard-drives die on me, the one I beat up the most (my laptop's) has actually been the most reliable.
What kind of username did you use though? They could have just been sending to random addresses and yours was easy enough to guess?
Well, I mine as well share my spam-fighting secret. I just have a catch-all account on my webserver and when I register for something, I register with -fwd@mydomain.com (I use the catch-all so I can just make it up on the fly.). EG: slashdot-fwd@mydomain.com. If I start receiving spam at that address, I know exactly who gave my e-mail address away, and as long as I no longer need any more e-mail from that site, I'll just set the address up as a forward to the offending sites contact address. Works for me:)
"Most legislators are so dumb that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel." - From one of the FreeBSD fortune files
Ever heard the saying "Finest legislators money can buy"? Lemme see, how would the government get more money... stopping spam altogether, requiring more spending to enforce the law, etc, etc, or legalizing spam allowing larger spamming enterprises to move to america and pay taxes?
I'm likely way off, so I'll just mask my stupidity by using a witty quote:
"Most legislators are so dumb they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel." - From one of the FreeBSD fortune files
Or just change the "it.slashdot.org/" to another subdomain, one that you like the colour scheme of more, say "apple.slashdot.org/" or "yro.slashdot.org/". Whatever you want.
There's also the name recognition. I'd bet you money (if I had any!) that if someone found a hole in djbdns and got the $500, it'd make Slashdot. If someone doesn't do it for the money or to spite DJB, they'd do it for the fame.
I admit I haven't seen any "Punch the monkey" ads personally in a while, but that is likely because of the types of sites I surf. Just watching people browse the internet looking for something I notice quite a few ads like that still out there.
Somebody comprimised one of my system and left a note on how it was done and how to fix it. Too bad there was no contact address, no way to thank them:(
It's not always about voting for what you think is right, but sometimes voting against what you think is wrong.
Up here in Canada I know many people who did not want the conservitives in no matter what (they are kind of like Bush down there), and wanted one of the smaller parties (Green, NDP) to win, but rather than be split and have the conservatives win, many voted Liberal simply because that's what most people would vote for, and they would take anyone over the conservatives.
Doing what's right it not always doing what's right.
"select, group and move specific mp3s around my hdd."
I'm not sure exactly what kind of things you're doing, but I usually find CLI easier for this.
mv Manfred\ Mann*/someotherfolder
To move all the songs by "Manfred Mann's Earth Band" into another folder. Generally I find using simple patterns like that much easier than selecting things by mouse.
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I wish I had your budget, even. My fastest computer is a Athlon 1.8 GHZ with 256 MB RAM. Before this one the fastest I had was a 433 MHZ.
Sadder yet, is my server is a PII 233MHZ with 96 MB RAM.
I'd kill to be able to afford an AMD64 or something.
ND
We're still working on getting the US using the metric system. One thing at a time here, buddy.
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Well sure, if no one supported prisons where would we put all the prisoners?
Why don't we just let Joe Rapist back on the street, and if everyone behaves in that manner, the whole world will be a better place, right?
You have to examine the alternatives.
ND
Running Windows XP on a Mac? I think you have more problems that trojanned service packs, my friend.
ND
Wow, that's a first! Someone said "in Soviet Russia" without making a cheesy joke!
Somebody get this man* prize or something.
(Well, you could be a woman but being Slashdot man is most likely correct)
ND
2 failures in nine years? You must be pretty lucky.
Then again, I'm cursed. In about 5 or 6 years I've had four hard-drives die on me, the one I beat up the most (my laptop's) has actually been the most reliable.
ND
NZ scored well on the World Audit Democratic thingy-majig which measures "Civil Liberties", "Political Rights", "Press Freedom" and "Corruption".
NZ (Lower is Better)
Overall Ranking: 3/149
Political Rights: 1/7
Civil Liberties: 1/7
Press Freedom: 3/100
Corruption: 2/100
My beloved Canada:
Overall Ranking: 9/149
Political Rights: 1/7
Civil Liberties: 1/7
Press Freedom: 12/100
Corruption: 10/100
And everyones 'favourite' US:
Topics Range Results
Overall Ranking: 12/149
Political Rights: 1/7
Civil Liberties: 1/7
Press Freedom: 9/100
Corruption: 15/100
(This data is a couple years old, IIRC)
All this was taken from http://www.worldaudit.org/.
ND
What kind of username did you use though? They could have just been sending to random addresses and yours was easy enough to guess?
:)
Well, I mine as well share my spam-fighting secret. I just have a catch-all account on my webserver and when I register for something, I register with -fwd@mydomain.com (I use the catch-all so I can just make it up on the fly.). EG: slashdot-fwd@mydomain.com. If I start receiving spam at that address, I know exactly who gave my e-mail address away, and as long as I no longer need any more e-mail from that site, I'll just set the address up as a forward to the offending sites contact address. Works for me
ND
"Most legislators are so dumb that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel." - From one of the FreeBSD fortune files
Is it possible to sue congress for trademark infringement?!? Please say yes!
ND
Ever heard the saying "Finest legislators money can buy"? Lemme see, how would the government get more money... stopping spam altogether, requiring more spending to enforce the law, etc, etc, or legalizing spam allowing larger spamming enterprises to move to america and pay taxes?
I'm likely way off, so I'll just mask my stupidity by using a witty quote:
"Most legislators are so dumb they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel." - From one of the FreeBSD fortune files
ND
Or just change the "it.slashdot.org/" to another subdomain, one that you like the colour scheme of more, say "apple.slashdot.org/" or "yro.slashdot.org/". Whatever you want.
There's also the name recognition. I'd bet you money (if I had any!) that if someone found a hole in djbdns and got the $500, it'd make Slashdot. If someone doesn't do it for the money or to spite DJB, they'd do it for the fame.
ND
" Where the heck is everybody going and finding these annoying ads?"
g -With-PHP/2/
I tried about 3 or so pages from the proxy log...
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Shell-Scriptin
http://maxpages.com/dolls/
I admit I haven't seen any "Punch the monkey" ads personally in a while, but that is likely because of the types of sites I surf. Just watching people browse the internet looking for something I notice quite a few ads like that still out there.
ND
I've had people do that...
:(
Somebody comprimised one of my system and left a note on how it was done and how to fix it. Too bad there was no contact address, no way to thank them
ND
Cool. I had never heard of these sites before now.
I was actually sitting there earlier thinking how easy it would be to setup and was considering making something like that. Saved me the trouble.
ND
Nice sig :P
"You fetch some computer paper and retrieve your precious dime."
You speak as if you have had experience fetching money out from under vending machine using computer paper?
"It seems that in today's world the issue isn't about being a criminal or not. Everyone is, by default, a criminal at any given time."
That, sir, is exactly why the current system is broken.
You get the rifles, I'll pick the spots?
Excuse me a moment, some car marked FBI just pulled up...
ND
It's not always about voting for what you think is right, but sometimes voting against what you think is wrong.
Up here in Canada I know many people who did not want the conservitives in no matter what (they are kind of like Bush down there), and wanted one of the smaller parties (Green, NDP) to win, but rather than be split and have the conservatives win, many voted Liberal simply because that's what most people would vote for, and they would take anyone over the conservatives.
Doing what's right it not always doing what's right.
ND
"select, group and move specific mp3s around my hdd."
/someotherfolder
I'm not sure exactly what kind of things you're doing, but I usually find CLI easier for this.
mv Manfred\ Mann*
To move all the songs by "Manfred Mann's Earth Band" into another folder. Generally I find using simple patterns like that much easier than selecting things by mouse.
ND
"For some reason my friend hasn't enlightened them, but...."
Is he by chance getting all their old "broken" computers? If that were the case I sure as hell wouldn't tell them either...
ND
"a good method is to look on the statistics of your webserver."
Well, here's the stats for my server:
61% IE6
39% Gecko Based (Mozilla, Firefox)
Wow. Your method appears about as accurate as a Gartner report!
ND
"change their user agent string to be IE 6sp1 on windows"
I don't. My user agent string is switched between:
"Where is the pr0n?"
and
"All your base are belong to us."
Depending which one I feel like using at the time.
ND