I no longer have it set up, but despite MS's claims you can POP into your hotmail account with any client, no pop-ups. I can't remember the SMTP and POP3 server names though. It was pretty simple. There was a specific server name that you use, and then your UID/password. Wish I could remember that setting....
Browsing through my spam filter, I see a lot of message from Hotmail. Microsoft contends, for whatever reason, that spam originates from everyone else. How long until users realizes that the amount of spam INCREASES once they enforce this stupid policy? How long until they realize that Microsoft's software is responsible for worms and this policy actually slows down their connection? This is absolutely rediculous.
From what I've heard, that 8 hour benchmark came from marketing. I don't believe the Transmeta chip can quite stack up to that. Good news is that it does well (4 or 5 hours?) against the power hungry Intel/AMD offerings. Results: less heat, longer battery life, smaller package. Sony has a nice subnotebook running a Crusoe chip, looks tempting but pricey. Transmeta will need a few more years to be taken seriously but given time they'll start showing up in cell phones, PDAs, car stereos, etc without enlarging the package.
Sadly, Miocrosoft was right in this case. This dude you bought Win2K from did it illegally. You bought the parts and built a system yourself. That does not qualify you for OEM licensing, since your system is homebrew. Vendors are not permitted to sell you OEM software without an OEM computer atached. Selling it on Ebay regardless of how you ended up with it is not permitted. Kinda sucks, right?
Your best bet is to do some dumpster diving and get some PC parts (non working is fine) to throw in. Or, as other readers have suggested, find something of minimal value and "give away" your software with it. Try to be clever, like a box of "sentimental dryer lint" or something that's hard to put a tangible value on. Things like tupperware and pens have tangible value and Ebay can pull suspicious items (nobody would pay $20 for a black BIC pen for instance).
The government wants the network up and running six months after a contractor is picked
Is this the same government I'm familiar with? 6 years, maybe. Cripes, I wait in line at the DMV longer than 6 months, let alone roll out a new security infrastructure.
Except that clock speed is becoming a useless benchmark. At what point do we realize that Intel's 20 Ghz machine and AMD's 12 Ghz machine have an unnoticable speed difference? If they were talking about a pocket cray as suggested, yes, I guess there is a use for it. They're not talking about supercomputing, they're talking about Pentium 4's!!! At 20 Ghz you'd have to slow the thing down to play Diablo!!
If you're a ham radio op. If you have a loose network of hams with dual band handhelds, you can cross-band and relay a message a long distance using other people's handhelds. Of course, this all requires the cooperation of the user. Let's look, perhaps, at how this could have helped in the NYC tragedy:
Op with a 5 watt handheld has set up a small communication base near ground zero. The op can sync up with another op a few miles away and relay help and welfare information. Ground zero does not have power. The second op does not have power. The second op is able to relay the message to a ham with power who can relay the info on 20 meter to the other side of the country. With minimal amounts of planning and just a few hams, a system is devised that permits message relaying all over the country, even though the phone system is jammed and power is down for miles. Anyone with a decent scanner can pick up the signal on 20 meters and hear a nice formatted report of people who are OK.
the radiation of my cell phone and a cell full of methane in the same piece of hardware. I'd start looking at yesterday's story on body powered batteries before I started walking around with methane on my belt. So what kind of emissions do these things put out?
Right now there's a lot of file swapping services out there, but none like Napster. Napster offered a central location to share your stuff. Now with all the clones, the file sharing is spread out and finding what you want can sometimes be a challenge, hopping service to service. Thank you RIAA for starting to clean some of this up and centralize sharing a bit more.
Which parents did you talk to? The ones I know would fight it, when their 15 year old daughter would cry endlessly for months that her new NSync CD doesn't play in her computer.
Interesting concept... stop piracy but permit fair use at the CD level. How is that possible? Once it's ripped to MP3, you can do whatever the heck you want to with it. This is sort of like stopping gas drive-offs by not allowing cars to be filled with gas. Those who steal gas can drive around, those who don't steal gas can't drive (or have to buy a new car). It doesn't make any sense to me.
A: The technology that we sell is a padlock to music. If you have a lock cutter, a bolt cutter, you can cut that padlock off. If you're determined to steal the music, the music can be stolen. Our technology is not thief proof.
Umm... so let me get this straight. Those who want fair use (downloading it to their Rio, whatever) can't have it. Those are determined to pirate the music pull out their bit cutters and rip the CD. So basically, you've accomplished the exact opposite.. fair use is discouraged, but piracy is still possible. I think somebody missed the point.
How quickly we forget that Linux too is vulnerable
ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p tcp -s any/0 111 -j DENY
Yes, linux is vulnerable. Simple recipe for keeping it safe: if you don't need it, turn it off. If you do need it, study the security history and upgrade the daemon if necessary. If it's sendmail, install postfix or configure it as non-root. If it's WU-ftpd try Pure-FTPD.
On a side note, a default install of most linux distros turns a lot of stuff on that shouldn't be running if it's world accessible. So, like NT admins, linux admins need to study their install and find out what's there that you don't want. Upgrades are sometimes needed, services need to be stopped. The good news is that all linux worms to date are nothing more than automated script kiddies so if you've kiddie-proofed your setup, chances are you're OK.
Probably can't, he already opened it. Unless it's one of those software stores that allows 24 hr software returns (YES, they exist, Software ETC used to do it). Does bring up a valid point thoguh. I bought a piece of MS software, I read the EULA in it's entirety, and I don't agree. Can I have my money back?
Hey moderators: I know you guys look for these posts just to mark them -1, but occasionally these are on-topic posts. This is one of those times. "Imagine... a beowulf cluster of these" is a staple here on/. and needs to be recognized every once in awhile!
Easier method:
Create a text file and name it something like eml.reg. Right click, select Edit. Paste the following lines into the file:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.eml]
@="Microsoft Internet Mail Message"
"Content Type"="text/plain"
And save the file. Double click and it will add itself to the registry. This will re-associate the.eml extension with Notepad. NOTE: this may affect Outlook since the.eml is an extension used for mail stores. Use at your own risk.
If I read this stuff right, it's saying that Linux is playing catch up to MS and in order to be accepted it needs to excel before MS can catch up. In a lot of ways it already has. If users need something revolutionary as a reason to switch, why have so many dumped Windows for Linux? It's free, it's lightweight, it's stable, it's secure. Want to become a Windows developer? Better make sure your tools are licensed for distribution. Want to be a linux developer? Go ahead, you already have your tools installed and you can do whatever you want with the code you write. The infrastructure is already in place. Linux is superior to to Windows in every angle except the interface. Some will argue that, but IMHO I think the UI needs work before Joe Schmoe starts using it. Joe also needs some apps like Office before he can say with confidence "this will replace Windows". The truth is, Linux is stronger than ever. MS is running scared, so you know it's doing something right!
that 486 you have in the corner collecting dust. I think the idea of spending $100+ on a box that does nothing more than firewall is rediculous. Why not spend something like $30 to dig up a small machine with a small hard disk (or use LRP). I've got a LAN set up with any OS you'd want, and a small Debian box that does NAT, ip forwarding, firewalling, the works.
That being said, is there any sort of config utility fopr IPtables that runs on Apache? These stupid little Linksys/Netgear/etc firewall thingies have web interfaces. People like them. I can go and tweak out my iptables stuff but too many admins would prefer not to. Is there any good solution?
Shouldn't that be 'meets' rubik? I'd have something insightful to say, but it's already/.'d. You'd think those folks over at lego.com would know better. Their site is usually stressed as it is, and it should be aware that/.'ers love their LEGO bricks! Anyway, when the server cools down I think I'll have a look. Do they have the plans posted to build one? Source code?
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I no longer have it set up, but despite MS's claims you can POP into your hotmail account with any client, no pop-ups. I can't remember the SMTP and POP3 server names though. It was pretty simple. There was a specific server name that you use, and then your UID/password. Wish I could remember that setting....
Browsing through my spam filter, I see a lot of message from Hotmail. Microsoft contends, for whatever reason, that spam originates from everyone else. How long until users realizes that the amount of spam INCREASES once they enforce this stupid policy? How long until they realize that Microsoft's software is responsible for worms and this policy actually slows down their connection? This is absolutely rediculous.
From what I've heard, that 8 hour benchmark came from marketing. I don't believe the Transmeta chip can quite stack up to that. Good news is that it does well (4 or 5 hours?) against the power hungry Intel/AMD offerings. Results: less heat, longer battery life, smaller package. Sony has a nice subnotebook running a Crusoe chip, looks tempting but pricey. Transmeta will need a few more years to be taken seriously but given time they'll start showing up in cell phones, PDAs, car stereos, etc without enlarging the package.
Sadly, Miocrosoft was right in this case. This dude you bought Win2K from did it illegally. You bought the parts and built a system yourself. That does not qualify you for OEM licensing, since your system is homebrew. Vendors are not permitted to sell you OEM software without an OEM computer atached. Selling it on Ebay regardless of how you ended up with it is not permitted. Kinda sucks, right?
Your best bet is to do some dumpster diving and get some PC parts (non working is fine) to throw in. Or, as other readers have suggested, find something of minimal value and "give away" your software with it. Try to be clever, like a box of "sentimental dryer lint" or something that's hard to put a tangible value on. Things like tupperware and pens have tangible value and Ebay can pull suspicious items (nobody would pay $20 for a black BIC pen for instance).
The government wants the network up and running six months after a contractor is picked
Is this the same government I'm familiar with? 6 years, maybe. Cripes, I wait in line at the DMV longer than 6 months, let alone roll out a new security infrastructure.
Except that clock speed is becoming a useless benchmark. At what point do we realize that Intel's 20 Ghz machine and AMD's 12 Ghz machine have an unnoticable speed difference? If they were talking about a pocket cray as suggested, yes, I guess there is a use for it. They're not talking about supercomputing, they're talking about Pentium 4's!!! At 20 Ghz you'd have to slow the thing down to play Diablo!!
If you're a ham radio op. If you have a loose network of hams with dual band handhelds, you can cross-band and relay a message a long distance using other people's handhelds. Of course, this all requires the cooperation of the user. Let's look, perhaps, at how this could have helped in the NYC tragedy:
Op with a 5 watt handheld has set up a small communication base near ground zero. The op can sync up with another op a few miles away and relay help and welfare information. Ground zero does not have power. The second op does not have power. The second op is able to relay the message to a ham with power who can relay the info on 20 meter to the other side of the country. With minimal amounts of planning and just a few hams, a system is devised that permits message relaying all over the country, even though the phone system is jammed and power is down for miles. Anyone with a decent scanner can pick up the signal on 20 meters and hear a nice formatted report of people who are OK.
How much heat?
the radiation of my cell phone and a cell full of methane in the same piece of hardware. I'd start looking at yesterday's story on body powered batteries before I started walking around with methane on my belt. So what kind of emissions do these things put out?
Right now there's a lot of file swapping services out there, but none like Napster. Napster offered a central location to share your stuff. Now with all the clones, the file sharing is spread out and finding what you want can sometimes be a challenge, hopping service to service. Thank you RIAA for starting to clean some of this up and centralize sharing a bit more.
Which parents did you talk to? The ones I know would fight it, when their 15 year old daughter would cry endlessly for months that her new NSync CD doesn't play in her computer.
"Both the UK and US versions will play on a Windows PC and both let a PC CD burner make a copy onto a blank CD."
Yeah, that "slightly weaker" US version doesn't do anything apparently. Hope they didn't invest TOO much money into this....
It would figure. Keep in mind that Yahoo broke this story.
Interesting concept... stop piracy but permit fair use at the CD level. How is that possible? Once it's ripped to MP3, you can do whatever the heck you want to with it. This is sort of like stopping gas drive-offs by not allowing cars to be filled with gas. Those who steal gas can drive around, those who don't steal gas can't drive (or have to buy a new car). It doesn't make any sense to me.
A: The technology that we sell is a padlock to music. If you have a lock cutter, a bolt cutter, you can cut that padlock off. If you're determined to steal the music, the music can be stolen. Our technology is not thief proof.
Umm... so let me get this straight. Those who want fair use (downloading it to their Rio, whatever) can't have it. Those are determined to pirate the music pull out their bit cutters and rip the CD. So basically, you've accomplished the exact opposite.. fair use is discouraged, but piracy is still possible. I think somebody missed the point.
FWIW, the history of worms and such is available here:
a rbyt/pages/history.html
http://www.software.com.pl/newarchive/misc/Worm/d
Pretty well written article with more detail than the above post (same info though).
How quickly we forget that Linux too is vulnerable
ipchains -A input -i eth0 -p tcp -s any/0 111 -j DENY
Yes, linux is vulnerable. Simple recipe for keeping it safe: if you don't need it, turn it off. If you do need it, study the security history and upgrade the daemon if necessary. If it's sendmail, install postfix or configure it as non-root. If it's WU-ftpd try Pure-FTPD.
On a side note, a default install of most linux distros turns a lot of stuff on that shouldn't be running if it's world accessible. So, like NT admins, linux admins need to study their install and find out what's there that you don't want. Upgrades are sometimes needed, services need to be stopped. The good news is that all linux worms to date are nothing more than automated script kiddies so if you've kiddie-proofed your setup, chances are you're OK.
That sentence is a dangling modifier. I know someone who failed college english for using them.
Probably can't, he already opened it. Unless it's one of those software stores that allows 24 hr software returns (YES, they exist, Software ETC used to do it). Does bring up a valid point thoguh. I bought a piece of MS software, I read the EULA in it's entirety, and I don't agree. Can I have my money back?
Hey moderators: I know you guys look for these posts just to mark them -1, but occasionally these are on-topic posts. This is one of those times. "Imagine... a beowulf cluster of these" is a staple here on /. and needs to be recognized every once in awhile!
Easier method:
.eml extension with Notepad. NOTE: this may affect Outlook since the .eml is an extension used for mail stores. Use at your own risk.
Create a text file and name it something like eml.reg. Right click, select Edit. Paste the following lines into the file:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.eml]
@="Microsoft Internet Mail Message"
"Content Type"="text/plain"
And save the file. Double click and it will add itself to the registry. This will re-associate the
If I read this stuff right, it's saying that Linux is playing catch up to MS and in order to be accepted it needs to excel before MS can catch up. In a lot of ways it already has. If users need something revolutionary as a reason to switch, why have so many dumped Windows for Linux? It's free, it's lightweight, it's stable, it's secure. Want to become a Windows developer? Better make sure your tools are licensed for distribution. Want to be a linux developer? Go ahead, you already have your tools installed and you can do whatever you want with the code you write. The infrastructure is already in place. Linux is superior to to Windows in every angle except the interface. Some will argue that, but IMHO I think the UI needs work before Joe Schmoe starts using it. Joe also needs some apps like Office before he can say with confidence "this will replace Windows". The truth is, Linux is stronger than ever. MS is running scared, so you know it's doing something right!
Umm... I've always heard "roww-ter", there are some who call them "roo-ters" but since Cisco calls them "roww-ters" I'm willing to listen to them.
that 486 you have in the corner collecting dust. I think the idea of spending $100+ on a box that does nothing more than firewall is rediculous. Why not spend something like $30 to dig up a small machine with a small hard disk (or use LRP). I've got a LAN set up with any OS you'd want, and a small Debian box that does NAT, ip forwarding, firewalling, the works.
That being said, is there any sort of config utility fopr IPtables that runs on Apache? These stupid little Linksys/Netgear/etc firewall thingies have web interfaces. People like them. I can go and tweak out my iptables stuff but too many admins would prefer not to. Is there any good solution?
Shouldn't that be 'meets' rubik? I'd have something insightful to say, but it's already /.'d. You'd think those folks over at lego.com would know better. Their site is usually stressed as it is, and it should be aware that /.'ers love their LEGO bricks! Anyway, when the server cools down I think I'll have a look. Do they have the plans posted to build one? Source code?