I think that your loved ones will appreciate much more a hand written letter to each one of them than a "email from hell".
It's been done for centuries, just hand write a letter to each of your loved one, and put them with your will. They will get distributed after your death.
With only the Mac market so far, Apple captured, what, 30% of paid downloads. Now the other 90% can use their service, so watch out Microsoft.
No, with only the Mac market, iTMS has 70% of the paid music downloads. Imagine what they'll have after Pepsi will have given 100 000 000 songs for free!
30% is the iPod market share, and they have 50% of the revenues for portable digital players.
2.4ghz Cordless phones use the same freq! What are these parents smoking?
So do microwave ovens! And they emits spurious emissions of several watts. Seriously, after years of research, the only proven effect of radio frequency exposition is temperature elevation of the body, the rest is just FUD.
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He would actually have to be able to do a very good estimation of the hours it would take him to complete a particular target. Otherwise he would ask for amount X thinking that it would take him Y hours but in the process he needed 3Y time only to be paid X. I don't know how difficult this is. I suppose it depends on how good a programmer you are and how complicated/familiar the subject is.
I usually offer both to customers, and most of them prefer to pay by targets. For estimating the time, I try my best to guess the needed time and multiply it by 1.25, it's usually pretty much on target. I charge about $25 per hour, more or less depending on outside factors like my motivation, easiness of the task and the amount of time before the deadline.
SCO will die much before any BSD, but that's just too easy to predict. It's seems to me that SCO is just making a big bluff in pretending that they "own" Linux. Their CEOs will run with the money and declare bankruptcy when the bluff is exposed.
We should start a pool for which date SCO will declare bankruptcy, I bet on December 18th 2003.
Actually I never understood, why, on shutdown, you can't simply unmount all file systems, terminate the network connection, and then turn that damn power off. Who cares if any other services are left hanging in a void before they dissapear into nothingness?
I use an ext3 filesystem, so shutdown means pull the plug, and reboot means press the reset button on the case. It makes it pretty easy to explain to non technical people: "If the server stops reponding, press the reset button. If it still doesn't work after a couple minutes, give me a call."
Thanks for the tip, exactly what I was looking for.
2) Mounting 200 GB Reiserfs partitions takes a couple seconds. These are just data/mpeg partitions, not app/os partitions, and I don't wanna mess with carving 'em up. No reason they can't mount in the background.
Couldn't you just set the noauto option for this partition in/etc/fstab then mount it manually later? Check out 'man fstab' and 'man mount' for more infos.
I've switched from RedHat to Debian not so long ago, and there does not seem to be a chkconfig utility on debian.
Because of this, I've been changing the rc scripts manually, but it's a bit cumbersome. So, I'd like to know if there is an utility similar to chkconfig on debian?
I'm too lazy to rewrite it, but here's a copy of a posting I sent a couple weeks ago on/.
I have been using Courier for over two years now. No remote roots ever or problems of any kind (I am amazed!). It's open sourced and a full package (esmtp, pop, imap, webmail and a thousand other things). It gets my vote.
I used it for a couple months because I wanted to have Maildir type mailboxes and wanted an IMAP server, it would crash all the time and give me all kind of troubles. I then switched to Binc IMAP (Binc is not courrier), which claim to be better than Courrier, but it was actually worse. It wouldn't last one week without crashing and send a lot of junk in syslog. I finally settled for dovecot with qmail. I have been running it for 6 months now without any problem.
I've seen something similar on TV. One of those cop shows had video tape of a woman dressed as an ATM security company security guard take an ATM out of a convience store. Said that the machine needed "maintenance". She chatted away with the store owner and customers as her accomplice posing as a maintenance person hauled the ATM out the door.
I remember seeying it too. She had an accomplice complain that the ATM was not working maibe an hour before she came and took it. Pretty smart.
It's not as scalable as oracle or db/2 but at the same time it costs 15K per processor which is a hell of a lot of money.
I don't want to defend MS too much, but last month we bought Small Business Server for about $1500. That included Win2k Server, SQL Server 2000 and a lot of other things.
As you can see, these controllers cost from $59 to $85. Last weekend Fry's was selling a retail boxed 1800 MHz Athlon XP processor with fan included and an ECS motherboard for $59 total. So $80 seems like a lot for a little card with one chip and a flash ROM.
Damn, we paid about $500 for an UltraSCSI 320 RAID controller and you think 80 bucks is expensive? And each one of the 75 GB drives cost $550, ouch!
I guess you allready figured out that I work for the govn't. 8) It's not the same planet as the private sector.
I've considered qmail a few times, but Dan is such an abrasive prick that I just couldn't bring myself to use his software (the same can be said of Theo and OpenBSD).
Let me guess, you're the kind of guy who's gonna vote for Mary Carey as the next California Governor, aren't you?
I wonder how much she would charge to have a picture of her posted on qmail's web site saying: "I dig qmail admins!"
I have been using Courier [courier-mta.org] for over two years now. No remote roots ever or problems of any kind (I am amazed!). It's open sourced and a full package (esmtp, pop, imap, webmail and a thousand other things). It gets my vote.
I used it for a couple months because I wanted to have Maildir type mailboxes and wanted an IMAP server, it would crash all the time and give me all kind of troubles. I then switched to Binc IMAP (Binc is not courrier), which claim to be better than Courrier, but it was actually worse. It wouldn't last one week without crashing and send a lot of junk in syslog. I finally settled for dovecot with qmail. I have been running it for 6 months now without any problem.
qmail is supposedly very secure in its default state. Aren't you compromising that security when you add third-party patches? I would think that these patches, since they are not part of qmail proper, have received nowhere near the scrutiny that sendmail (or postfix, exim, etc.) have received. Doesn't that defeat the main reason for using qmail?
I agree partly with you, it bothers me to have to patch my vanilla qmail to get all the functionality that I need. But on the other hand you only install the patchs that you need, so you're still more secure than if all the features/patchs we're allready bundled with qmail.
The idea is to keep your installation as small as possible and to install only well-known patchs.
Of course now I get al the exim, qmail and postfix fanboys blasting at me, but sendmail works well. Works good enough for most. Heck, if sendmail were so insecure, why is OpenBSD still including it in it's base?
The devil is in the details. I remember when I was trying to set up a virus checker for sendmail, I screwed up, and sendmail started sending my emails to/dev/null. With qmail, at least, when I screw up my configuration, it keeps the emails in the queue until the configuration is repaired.
Walt Dubose, assistant chairman of the ARRL High Speed Multimedia (HSMM) Working Group, sent me his comments to post on here. (Yes, he writes the stuff, I get the good karma, life is good.)
{Negative Comment} "I'd much rather have a REAL backup system than spend money reducing power line interference for HAM radio operators."
{Comments by Walt DuBose/K5YFW wdubose@satx.rr.com, San Antonio, Texas}
Historically, local and state government agencies and even disaster relief agencies have desired and needed emergency or contingency communications. In every case where they have tried to budget for such positions, this is what they have found...and I will use figures based on what has been found in the local San Antonio, Texas economy...
Hardware cost including radios (10), base station/repeater station (2), maintenance, control (including computer(s) for control operators) = $50,000.
Radio operator cost (salary at $45,000 per year plus overhead cost $30,000 for employee costs) = $75,000
Need was 10 radio operators and 3 control operators. The employee cost was 13 X $75,000 or $975,000.
With an initial investment of $1,250,000. recurring (yearly) cost were $985,000.
You must realize that amateur radio operators can communicate with each other. However, a local or state government or disaster relief organization such as the Red Cross does not have this "freedom". They can communicate within their own radio network and either purchase radios for another agencies radio communications network (assumes that there is an agreement between the agencies to allow this). If for example the Red Cross needs to communicate with the local emergency operations center (EOCs), then they must purchase a radio network. If they need to talk to the local hospital network, then they must purchase a radio for that network.
As you can see, the hardware cost are small. The cost of employees dedicated to emergency communications is expensive. If you have that individual doing another job during non-emergency conditions, when they take their position as an emergency communicator, the job that they normally do goes undone. to communicate on the
Use of amateur radio operators. Initial investment = $0.00. Recurring cost = $0.00.
From this, I believe that you can see that an agency cannot afford to employ individuals for only emergency communications.
So NOW perhaps you can see why amateur radio operators are so important.
{Other Previous Positive Comments}
I think you have no understanding of the nature of emergency services. At it's best, emergency services are controlled chaos. Under "other "...Under "other than normal" circumstances it's a complete crapshoot. Having the assistance of *trained* citizens is invaluable, and is a lot more common than you obviously think. The emergency services are there to help you, not....
And, quite frankly, all these ultra-high tech communications systems the emergency services use are really nice under normal circumstances, but are completely [exp. deleted] useless when the main systems fail. Many modern vehicle radios *cannot* talk directly to another mobile unit (multi-frequency). The transmission is sent to a tower, and relayed to the other vehicle/handheld. If the tower fails, every radio in the field becomes a high-dollar piece of junk.
If no one is left using the technology because of problems under normal conditions, these people won't be there to save your [backside] when you need paramedics called and the phones don't work.
To call amateur radio operators simply hobbyists does them a is service. They're licensed by the FCC. Listen on your local repeater [artscipub.com] the next time some severe thunderstorms roll through. I bet you'll hear a SKYWARN [skywarn.org] net, courtesy of your local ARES [google.com] group. What's ARES? This is. [arrl.org] They are volunteers that work closely with the National Weather Service. If you're lucky enough to still have an active
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Atheros' CEO is a perl hacker, so I guess that this would mean that whatever they do, it will be good, no?
I think that your loved ones will appreciate much more a hand written letter to each one of them than a "email from hell".
It's been done for centuries, just hand write a letter to each of your loved one, and put them with your will. They will get distributed after your death.
GFK's
With only the Mac market so far, Apple captured, what, 30% of paid downloads. Now the other 90% can use their service, so watch out Microsoft.
No, with only the Mac market, iTMS has 70% of the paid music downloads. Imagine what they'll have after Pepsi will have given 100 000 000 songs for free!
30% is the iPod market share, and they have 50% of the revenues for portable digital players.
2.4ghz Cordless phones use the same freq! What are these parents smoking?
So do microwave ovens! And they emits spurious emissions of several watts. Seriously, after years of research, the only proven effect of radio frequency exposition is temperature elevation of the body, the rest is just FUD.
"You've been 295 times to various strip tease bars in the last month, so we tought that you might be interested in these pornographic magazines."
Honey, I swear I don't know what they're talking about!
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.com and .net zones and revert to the former behavior for these
[mailto:owner-
Service
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:08 PM
To: registrars@verisign-grs.com
Subject: [RegistrarsList] VeriSign NDS Response to Suspension of Site
To All Registrars,
I am writing to update you on VeriSigns Site Finder service. On Friday,
October 3rd, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) directed VeriSign, Inc., to temporarily suspend service no later
than 6PM PST, Saturday, October 4. VeriSign requested an extension from
ICANN for 3 additional days for the shut down in order to provide the
technical community time to make any necessary system changes.
Unfortunately, ICANN refused this request. Accordingly, in response to
this demand, VeriSign is temporarily suspending the Site Finder service
as of Saturday, October 4 at 6PM PST.
In suspending the service, VeriSign will remove the wildcard A records
from the
zones which is returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
nonexistent domain names.
VeriSign remains committed to improving the Internet user experience.
We look forward to providing the Site Finder service following this
suspension. Thank you for your business. We greatly value our
relationship with you.
Best Regards,
Chris Sheridan
Manager, Customer Service
VeriSign, Inc.
www.verisign.com
From: owner-registrars@verisign-grs.comr egistrars@verisign-grs.com]On Behalf Of VeriSign Customer
.com and .net zones and revert to the former behavior for these
[mailto:owner-
Service
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:08 PM
To: registrars@verisign-grs.com
Subject: [RegistrarsList] VeriSign NDS Response to Suspension of Site
To All Registrars,
I am writing to update you on VeriSigns Site Finder service. On Friday,
October 3rd, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) directed VeriSign, Inc., to temporarily suspend service no later
than 6PM PST, Saturday, October 4. VeriSign requested an extension from
ICANN for 3 additional days for the shut down in order to provide the
technical community time to make any necessary system changes.
Unfortunately, ICANN refused this request. Accordingly, in response to
this demand, VeriSign is temporarily suspending the Site Finder service
as of Saturday, October 4 at 6PM PST.
In suspending the service, VeriSign will remove the wildcard A records
from the
zones which is returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
nonexistent domain names.
VeriSign remains committed to improving the Internet user experience.
We look forward to providing the Site Finder service following this
suspension. Thank you for your business. We greatly value our
relationship with you.
Best Regards,
Chris Sheridan
Manager, Customer Service
VeriSign, Inc.
www.verisign.com
He would actually have to be able to do a very good estimation of the hours it would take him to complete a particular target. Otherwise he would ask for amount X thinking that it would take him Y hours but in the process he needed 3Y time only to be paid X. I don't know how difficult this is. I suppose it depends on how good a programmer you are and how complicated/familiar the subject is.
I usually offer both to customers, and most of them prefer to pay by targets. For estimating the time, I try my best to guess the needed time and multiply it by 1.25, it's usually pretty much on target. I charge about $25 per hour, more or less depending on outside factors like my motivation, easiness of the task and the amount of time before the deadline.
Run TCP/IP over a cowbell and I'll be impressed.
Who could forget this Saturday Night Live sketch? One of the best:
Transcript | Windows Media Video Capture (4.3MB)
SCO will die much before any BSD, but that's just too easy to predict. It's seems to me that SCO is just making a big bluff in pretending that they "own" Linux. Their CEOs will run with the money and declare bankruptcy when the bluff is exposed.
We should start a pool for which date SCO will declare bankruptcy, I bet on December 18th 2003.
Actually I never understood, why, on shutdown, you can't simply unmount all file systems, terminate the network connection, and then turn that damn power off. Who cares if any other services are left hanging in a void before they dissapear into nothingness?
I use an ext3 filesystem, so shutdown means pull the plug, and reboot means press the reset button on the case. It makes it pretty easy to explain to non technical people: "If the server stops reponding, press the reset button. If it still doesn't work after a couple minutes, give me a call."
I use rcconf. It's pretty nice.
Thanks for the tip, exactly what I was looking for.
2) Mounting 200 GB Reiserfs partitions takes a couple seconds. These are just data/mpeg partitions, not app/os partitions, and I don't wanna mess with carving 'em up. No reason they can't mount in the background.
Couldn't you just set the noauto option for this partition in /etc/fstab then mount it manually later? Check out 'man fstab' and 'man mount' for more infos.
I've switched from RedHat to Debian not so long ago, and there does not seem to be a chkconfig utility on debian.
Because of this, I've been changing the rc scripts manually, but it's a bit cumbersome. So, I'd like to know if there is an utility similar to chkconfig on debian?
1) Get OpenBrick (www.openbrick.org)
Nope, get a Soekris board, save about $100, that's what I call profit.
I have been using Courier for over two years now. No remote roots ever or problems of any kind (I am amazed!). It's open sourced and a full package (esmtp, pop, imap, webmail and a thousand other things). It gets my vote.
I used it for a couple months because I wanted to have Maildir type mailboxes and wanted an IMAP server, it would crash all the time and give me all kind of troubles. I then switched to Binc IMAP (Binc is not courrier), which claim to be better than Courrier, but it was actually worse. It wouldn't last one week without crashing and send a lot of junk in syslog. I finally settled for dovecot with qmail. I have been running it for 6 months now without any problem.
1) Hold trigger swich down
2) Flip arming switch
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!
I believe that Al Qaida/Hamas/etc have changed number 4 to:
4) Paradise with 77 virgins chix! (or something similar)
I've seen something similar on TV. One of those cop shows had video tape of a woman dressed as an ATM security company security guard take an ATM out of a convience store. Said that the machine needed "maintenance". She chatted away with the store owner and customers as her accomplice posing as a maintenance person hauled the ATM out the door.
I remember seeying it too. She had an accomplice complain that the ATM was not working maibe an hour before she came and took it. Pretty smart.
but sp2 will break my copy of xp!!!
Ho my God! You forgot to close the whine tag! All the rest of slashdot will be whining! (Like we're not used to it.) See, it's allready started!
It's not as scalable as oracle or db/2 but at the same time it costs 15K per processor which is a hell of a lot of money.
I don't want to defend MS too much, but last month we bought Small Business Server for about $1500. That included Win2k Server, SQL Server 2000 and a lot of other things.
As you can see, these controllers cost from $59 to $85. Last weekend Fry's was selling a retail boxed 1800 MHz Athlon XP processor with fan included and an ECS motherboard for $59 total. So $80 seems like a lot for a little card with one chip and a flash ROM.
Damn, we paid about $500 for an UltraSCSI 320 RAID controller and you think 80 bucks is expensive? And each one of the 75 GB drives cost $550, ouch!
I guess you allready figured out that I work for the govn't. 8) It's not the same planet as the private sector.
I've considered qmail a few times, but Dan is such an abrasive prick that I just couldn't bring myself to use his software (the same can be said of Theo and OpenBSD).
Let me guess, you're the kind of guy who's gonna vote for Mary Carey as the next California Governor, aren't you?
I wonder how much she would charge to have a picture of her posted on qmail's web site saying: "I dig qmail admins!"
I have been using Courier [courier-mta.org] for over two years now. No remote roots ever or problems of any kind (I am amazed!). It's open sourced and a full package (esmtp, pop, imap, webmail and a thousand other things). It gets my vote.
I used it for a couple months because I wanted to have Maildir type mailboxes and wanted an IMAP server, it would crash all the time and give me all kind of troubles. I then switched to Binc IMAP (Binc is not courrier), which claim to be better than Courrier, but it was actually worse. It wouldn't last one week without crashing and send a lot of junk in syslog. I finally settled for dovecot with qmail. I have been running it for 6 months now without any problem.
qmail is supposedly very secure in its default state. Aren't you compromising that security when you add third-party patches? I would think that these patches, since they are not part of qmail proper, have received nowhere near the scrutiny that sendmail (or postfix, exim, etc.) have received. Doesn't that defeat the main reason for using qmail?
I agree partly with you, it bothers me to have to patch my vanilla qmail to get all the functionality that I need. But on the other hand you only install the patchs that you need, so you're still more secure than if all the features/patchs we're allready bundled with qmail.
The idea is to keep your installation as small as possible and to install only well-known patchs.
Of course now I get al the exim, qmail and postfix fanboys blasting at me, but sendmail works well. Works good enough for most. Heck, if sendmail were so insecure, why is OpenBSD still including it in it's base?
The devil is in the details. I remember when I was trying to set up a virus checker for sendmail, I screwed up, and sendmail started sending my emails to /dev/null. With qmail, at least, when I screw up my configuration, it keeps the emails in the queue until the configuration is repaired.
Walt Dubose, assistant chairman of the ARRL High Speed Multimedia (HSMM) Working Group, sent me his comments to post on here. (Yes, he writes the stuff, I get the good karma, life is good.)
{Negative Comment}
"I'd much rather have a REAL backup system than spend money reducing power line interference for HAM radio operators."
{Comments by Walt DuBose/K5YFW wdubose@satx.rr.com, San Antonio, Texas}
Historically, local and state government agencies and even disaster relief agencies have desired and needed emergency or contingency communications. In every case where they have tried to budget for such positions, this is what they have found...and I will use figures based on what has been found in the local San Antonio, Texas economy...
Hardware cost including radios (10), base station/repeater station (2), maintenance, control (including computer(s) for control operators) = $50,000.
Radio operator cost (salary at $45,000 per year plus overhead cost $30,000 for employee costs) = $75,000
Need was 10 radio operators and 3 control operators. The employee cost was 13 X $75,000 or $975,000.
With an initial investment of $1,250,000. recurring (yearly) cost were $985,000.
You must realize that amateur radio operators can communicate with each other. However, a local or state government or disaster relief organization such as the Red Cross does not have this "freedom". They can communicate within their own radio network and either purchase radios for another agencies radio communications network (assumes that there is an agreement between the agencies to allow this). If for example the Red Cross needs to communicate with the local emergency operations center (EOCs), then they must purchase a radio network. If they need to talk to the local hospital network, then they must purchase a radio for that network.
As you can see, the hardware cost are small. The cost of employees dedicated to emergency communications is expensive. If you have that individual doing another job during non-emergency conditions, when they take their position as an emergency communicator, the job that they normally do goes undone. to communicate on the
Use of amateur radio operators. Initial investment = $0.00. Recurring cost = $0.00.
From this, I believe that you can see that an agency cannot afford to employ individuals for only emergency communications.
So NOW perhaps you can see why amateur radio operators are so important.
{Other Previous Positive Comments}
I think you have no understanding of the nature of emergency services. At it's best, emergency services are controlled chaos. Under "other "...Under "other than normal" circumstances it's a complete crapshoot. Having the assistance of *trained* citizens is invaluable, and is a lot more common than you obviously think. The emergency services are there to help you, not....
And, quite frankly, all these ultra-high tech communications systems the emergency services use are really nice under normal circumstances, but are completely [exp. deleted] useless when the main systems fail. Many modern vehicle radios *cannot* talk directly to another mobile unit (multi-frequency). The transmission is sent to a tower, and relayed to the other vehicle/handheld. If the tower fails, every radio in the field becomes a high-dollar piece of junk.
If no one is left using the technology because of problems under normal conditions, these people won't be there to save your [backside] when you need paramedics called and the phones don't work.
To call amateur radio operators simply hobbyists does them a is service. They're licensed by the FCC. Listen on your local repeater [artscipub.com] the next time some severe thunderstorms roll through. I bet you'll hear a SKYWARN [skywarn.org] net, courtesy of your local ARES [google.com] group. What's ARES? This is. [arrl.org] They are volunteers that work closely with the National Weather Service. If you're lucky enough to still have an active