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  1. What about opening to other cable providers? on Time Warner: Making An Offer They Can't Refuse? · · Score: 1
    I think they not only should be forced to open their cable modem network but their whole cable infrastructure to other providers.

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  2. Re:H1B visa workers are SLAVES. on Questioning The IT Labor Shortage · · Score: 1
    Linus should apply as an "Alien with extraordinary hability", see INA 203(b)(1)(A)(i)

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  3. Re:Forging Bounces (the real question) on E-mail Blacklists on a User Basis? · · Score: 1
    Please correct me if I am wrong but if you are talking with a SMTP server with this kind of blocking:

    MAIL FROM: argentinian@spammer.com.ar
    RCPT TO: somebody.that@dont.like.spam.com

    550 Recipient not found

    Your server refuses that mail, so you as the postmaster should never get an error message. The postmaster from the relay or the spammer himself does.

    Right now you can do this at server level with sendmail using the access_db feature. I only receive spam from the .ar domain, but there must be other users that don't want that domain blocked. Implementing this feature will be a giant leap for spam-free mankind.

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  4. Re:Forging Bounces (the real question) on E-mail Blacklists on a User Basis? · · Score: 1
    MAIL FROM: funmlm@earthlink.com
    RCPT TO: romulus@jerky.net

    542 Recipient doesn't like you

    This is what I need. I want the server to refuse mail based on user blacklists.

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  5. Re:sendmail.cf on E-mail Blacklists on a User Basis? · · Score: 1
    your own rewrite rule that matches mail from .ar to you and then rewrite it as a bounced mail?

    This is what I am looking for!
    do you know how to do it?

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  6. They are asking for regulation on Copyrant · · Score: 1
    The software industry is getting used on producing bad quality/buggy software and sells you a licence where they make no warranties about it. Everybody in the software industry is doing it and there is no way competition will fix this so the only way to solve this is by regulation.

    I remember to mention this when we were discussing about the Kerberos "enhancement" in Win2000: I think we should have some sort of "Federal Software Commision" to regulate and force the software industry to follow certain quality rules, provide warranty and support for the product for a minimum of years, etc.

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  7. Software regulation on ABCNews:Potential Recommended MS Break-Up · · Score: 1
    I think Microsoft is only part of the problem. The real problem is the 'standard' impossed by them. Software companies are getting used to force you to agree with they licenses and offer no waranties about the product they sell.

    If you build cars, you have to comply with environmental and safety regulations, if you are in the telecom or broadcasting bussiness you have to comply with the FCC. You are required to have spare parts available for 10 years for the appliances you produce... if you sell buggy software... nothing.

    I think the worst punishment for Microsoft is to create a Federal Software Commision to enforce a "Software Quality Act". Software companies should get their aproval before releasing "new features" like those 'enhancements' to the Kerberos protocol.

    I can see the headlines: "Microsoft fined by the FSC for buggy OS".

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  8. Re:What the USPTO says on What Can Be Patented? · · Score: 1

    "invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent"

    IMHO: I think the keyword here is NEW. It means (at least for me) you cannot patent the wheel. When patents over LZW, one-click orders, Y2K windowing fix, etc where granted, they were already in use on many websites, i.e. they were NOT NEW.

  9. Legislation <--- here is the key on More DoS Attacks: CNN, Amazon, eBay, Buy.com... · · Score: 1

    This is what they want to produce... they create chaos and then come with the solution: more legislation = more control

  10. Re:HTTP 500 - Internal server error on Microsoft Vows Security Commitment on Win2K · · Score: 1


    Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
    Type mismatch: 'CInt'
    /security/inc/scripts.txt, line 279

    This one is when you /. a MS SQL server...

  11. Same here in Chile on IT Salary Comparisons Worldwide · · Score: 1

    We are on almost the same situation than Mexico. Salary for ITs goes from $8000 to $25.000. Right now I'm making about 18K for IT Support.

  12. Win98 does it too on RealPlayer Uploads Your ID Too · · Score: 3

    I was updating from win95 to win98 and have a small home network with a linux machine as a dial-on-demand router to the internet. I remember when win98 installation was almost finish the linux started calling the internet. The trigger was a DNS query I couldn't log at that moment, but unplugged the net connection to the win98 box. It was hanging for about two minutes before continued and finished win98 install.

  13. What about an NT hotel? on German "Linux Hotel" has Tux in Every Bed · · Score: 1

    The only problem, every time they make a change on the rooms, they will need to demolish and rebuild.

  14. Easy of use? on Download.com Features Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    From the installation page:

    "It is always recommended to make a new user account rather than being logged in as root all the time. Do this by typing 'useradd [name]', where is the name of the user you want to add. Once added You will need to make a password for that user. To do this, type 'passwd [name]'', again where [name] is the name of the user to modify."

    Why nobody think about a script to run the first time you login to do this stuff?

  15. NUKE THE BASTARDS! on Mars Climate Orbiter AWOL · · Score: 1

    First they got the Russian ones...
    Now this?

    I say, let's send them a nuke. If it don't blow the marcians surface then we know somebody else is out there.