This is a cause worth supporting, my form of charity (and much more cost effective for me I must say).
I've had my little 800 celeron with 256 ram processing units for almost two years now, thats all it does, its got its own home on the network now. Alas, I have yet process a single message from my old friends. They will contact me eventually I'm sure (call me if your read this!).
Gaming is for fun, not work. I am a StarCraft fan, yes, in fact after this comment I'll be playing it (whiteraven710 if anyone cares for a game or two). But there is no way on gods green earth that I'd do it for money.
Gaming should never be considered a career, when it is, it'll become boring and no longer be a fun activity. I really hope this never becomes a common job title.
There needs to be a good spam filter that actually works. Any suggestions? I think the open source community should get together and figure this out.
I own a domain and provide advertisement free email accounts. Luckily I've never caught a spammer among my users. However, over half of my bandwidth charges each month are from users downloading all the spam they get. I'd think that some of my users would use the blacklisting and spam filter each account comes with, but they don't. If only I could get them to use it...
It seems that my domain has been a victim of spam attacks anyway, I created a spam@mydomain.net email account to see what I got for spam... 200 spams in 3 days without the account being advertised ANYWHERE. Seems like *@mydomain.net was used. I've taken all the spam from my catch-all account and unsubscribed *@wrjournal.net (that actually worked) and the spam coming into my server has been cut down almost 75%.
I have to agree with n1ywb. Try Knoppix. It's a wonderful live distro and it's great for beginners. It'll help you learn the basics and then when your comfortable with it, you can install it to disk or move on to a more powerful distro. Fedora would be a good second step.
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This is a cause worth supporting, my form of charity (and much more cost effective for me I must say). I've had my little 800 celeron with 256 ram processing units for almost two years now, thats all it does, its got its own home on the network now. Alas, I have yet process a single message from my old friends. They will contact me eventually I'm sure (call me if your read this!).
Gaming is for fun, not work. I am a StarCraft fan, yes, in fact after this comment I'll be playing it (whiteraven710 if anyone cares for a game or two). But there is no way on gods green earth that I'd do it for money.
Gaming should never be considered a career, when it is, it'll become boring and no longer be a fun activity. I really hope this never becomes a common job title.
There needs to be a good spam filter that actually works. Any suggestions? I think the open source community should get together and figure this out.
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... 200 spams in 3 days without the account being advertised ANYWHERE. Seems like *@mydomain.net was used. I've taken all the spam from my catch-all account and unsubscribed *@wrjournal.net (that actually worked) and the spam coming into my server has been cut down almost 75%.
I own a domain and provide advertisement free email accounts. Luckily I've never caught a spammer among my users. However, over half of my bandwidth charges each month are from users downloading all the spam they get. I'd think that some of my users would use the blacklisting and spam filter each account comes with, but they don't. If only I could get them to use it
It seems that my domain has been a victim of spam attacks anyway, I created a spam@mydomain.net email account to see what I got for spam
I have to agree with n1ywb. Try Knoppix. It's a wonderful live distro and it's great for beginners. It'll help you learn the basics and then when your comfortable with it, you can install it to disk or move on to a more powerful distro. Fedora would be a good second step.