I know most people here are talking about toaster sized mini-ATX cases, but I've always been partial to the practicality (from a system tinkering point of view) of mid-tower cases.
For people in that demographic, I'd put my vote on the Antec Sonata.
While it's not exactly silent, it's quieter than most; and it does look pretty slick with its high gloss black finish. Internally, it's one of the nicest cases I've ever had the pleasure of working on.
Of particular note is the the hard drive positioning and easy removal of all storage components (clips and rails). It also comes with a high quality 380W power supply (w/ SATA connectors), extra internal 6" fan, and front-panel-access for audio, USB and firewire.
And by posting this on slashdot, you've just decreased the chances of it working over the long-haul by 100%.
Spammers can easily adjust to this tactic by retrying seemingly "dead" addresses, only less frequently until it's "alive" again. They are even more likely to do so if it becomes a widely adopted practice.
It doesn't get much simpler or forgiving for a beginner.
In my experience, the really simple, syntactically elegant languages like lisp or scheme can actually be a real mind-bender for most people. I personally wouldn't use it as a starting language (though perhaps we can get a lively thread going from people who take exception:)
You can now set DSPAM to add headers with signatures etc instead of a tag in the body.
The only thing to note is that users forwarding mail back to DSPAM for training must include the X-DSPAM headers. Apparently, some email clients do not do this by default.
Easy is a relative term, but I think it's safe to say that you found spamassasin a hassle, you will not have an easy time with DSPAM.
Like most good server-side software, it requires a moderately good understanding of it's general operation and at least a passing familiarity with its command line arguments and such. Having a handle on how to make your MTA do whatever you want, and the willingness to do some reading of faqs, mailing lists etc doesn't hurt either.
In short, it's does take some mucking around to tweak it all out properly. Also of note, if you intend to use the cgi pictured in the screenshots, you should know something about setting up a webserver with proper exec priviledges for cgi.
If you're thinking about using it only for yourself, I would recommend a cleint side solution like Mozzila Thunderbird or Eudora (win32 only) instead. They both have bayesian spam filtering built in and they're *really* easy to set up.
However, the open source strategy is a triple-edge sword.
Ah yes, the old triple edged sword. It's a shame no-one patented this as a the ideal cutting device, sued everyone making single and double edged blades for infringing on the idea and then forced us all to cut our bread with it.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time." -- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Programmer's Guide" (forward by Bill Gates)
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft" -- Bill Gates, Free Market and the LA Times
Gates: Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2. -- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Notebook", Microsoft Press, (c) 1990--an excerpt from an
interview with Bill Gates and Jim Cannavino, p. 614
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates circa 1981
I suggest the original poster take a good long, hard look at the Cuban missle crisis. Many analysts have commented that, if you play the same scenario over a 100 times, 99 times it ends in total (effectively, global) nuclear war.
I don't believe this to be hyperbole. Seeing some of the evidence and testimony that has been released about that crisis would likely make you shit your pants.
With all of the R&D monies and brainpower thrown at the scientific priciples behind something like splitting an atom, you'd like to think the same brilliance would be applied to it's applications. Not so.
As a system administrator for a medium sized company, I consider myself very computer literate. Can I write (or read) assembly code? Not fluently, or in any way that's useful no. Does it matter?
Um, no.
There are degrees of intimacy with technology; you only need to go so deep for any given task. To suggest that everyone in the future need be a programmer or be able to work a CLI simply to survive is idiotic. Understanding computers (in a practical day-to-day sense) is not about speaking their language, it's about realizing what they can (or can't) do and knowing (vaguely) how they do it, even if it's from a macroscopic level.
Besides, companies will always dumb down their products so they can sell to the masses. HTF do you figure microsoft keeps going?
I mean, I am something of a CLI zealot, but even I can appreciate the neccesity to simplify for simplicity's sake. It's happened before and the trend will continue.
If the author had been around for the birth of the automobile, he would claim that everyone in the 21st century would need to be an automotive engineer, just to keep up.
Games are still too difficult for a mass audience.
C'mon. There are hundreds of games geared for mindless twitch responses (fps, and even some rts these days); even those have Easy, Medium, Hard and Hurt Me Plenty settings. People have been lamenting the trend towards glitzy mass-appeal games with great graphics and little content/challenge/gameplay/longevity for years.
How much fucking easier (read: boring) do games have to get? And why? So my grandmother can play too?
Another choice quote: "People reveal who they really are when they can try things in a safe environment."
Sorry, I think it's the opposite: people show who they are when they make choices that matter, not when there are no consequences. What the hell is crap like this doing in this forum anyway?
I'm already pretty familiar with my tendency to misspell stuff etc...and I don't need another clippy (hell, none of us do)
How about something potentially more useful, like a system that gently prompts you to save files using a certain naming convention, or helps tell you where to file certin documents, how to format email headers to make them useful etc....all according to a certain policy. Such a system could conceivably help organize documents consistenly for later retrieval; it would also facilitate more efficient brute-force searching (ala a google appliance or whatnot).
Information retrival (and I'm talking business related stuff) is made most simple when said information is filed and named consistently.
From personal experience, people in our company routinely spend quite a bit of time searching for historical company documents (ie how much did we pay for suchandsuch material last time? What did we bill the client? How big was that convention centre? what were their rates? Etc).
Sure, we have a filing policy and naming conventions in effect, but educating the users to use the system (and use it well...if at all) is surprisingly difficult.
Of course, I am also familiar with Edward's Law "You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem".
I bought my zip drive within a few weeks of its initial release, and I have YET to have a problem. Compared to today's standards: A bit slow? Yeah. Defective? Hardly.
Want to talk defective? I've got a stack of Maxtor hard drives...
hehe. had to reply...
I've built, maintained and fixed/upgraded hundreds (thousands?) of systems. When the HD fails miserably (it's always miserable, isn't it?), 9 times out of 10 it's a Maxtor drive. WTF is up with that? I can't think of another manufacturer of hardware that I am more wary of.
Are they absolutely sure it's a real cease and desist?
Seems like this guy would be a prime target for a practical joke...
well the Friday the 13th drop dead date might be a clue....
Yeah, and the punchline would be delivered to the pranksters in the form of a threatening letter from the real Mastercard lawyers, ordering a cease and desist of all attempts to falsely represent Mastercard litigation policy.
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I know most people here are talking about toaster sized mini-ATX cases, but I've always been partial to the practicality (from a system tinkering point of view) of mid-tower cases.
For people in that demographic, I'd put my vote on the Antec Sonata. While it's not exactly silent, it's quieter than most; and it does look pretty slick with its high gloss black finish. Internally, it's one of the nicest cases I've ever had the pleasure of working on.
Of particular note is the the hard drive positioning and easy removal of all storage components (clips and rails). It also comes with a high quality 380W power supply (w/ SATA connectors), extra internal 6" fan, and front-panel-access for audio, USB and firewire.
Not too shabby for ~$120 CND.
And by posting this on slashdot, you've just decreased the chances of it working over the long-haul by 100%.
Spammers can easily adjust to this tactic by retrying seemingly "dead" addresses, only less frequently until it's "alive" again. They are even more likely to do so if it becomes a widely adopted practice.
This solution has no lasting value. Sorry.
general-manager/marketing-drone-speak.
'nuff said.
This will totally solve the problem! Just like:
The War on Drugs:
*Very* few people do drugs anymore!
The War on Terror:
Without a doubt there are fewer terrorist attacks now that Iraq was invaded and Afghanistan was bombed to hell!
Legislation against Spam:
Spam? What spam?
Baseless Accusations v1.01
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt v9.421 (previously acquired from Microsoft)
Lack of Evidence v2.2
How about pascal or turing:
:)
http://www.holtsoft.com/turing/
It doesn't get much simpler or forgiving for a beginner.
In my experience, the really simple, syntactically elegant languages like lisp or scheme can actually be a real mind-bender for most people. I personally wouldn't use it as a starting language (though perhaps we can get a lively thread going from people who take exception
You can now set DSPAM to add headers with signatures etc instead of a tag in the body.
The only thing to note is that users forwarding mail back to DSPAM for training must include the X-DSPAM headers. Apparently, some email clients do not do this by default.
Easy is a relative term, but I think it's safe to say that you found spamassasin a hassle, you will not have an easy time with DSPAM.
Like most good server-side software, it requires a moderately good understanding of it's general operation and at least a passing familiarity with its command line arguments and such. Having a handle on how to make your MTA do whatever you want, and the willingness to do some reading of faqs, mailing lists etc doesn't hurt either.
In short, it's does take some mucking around to tweak it all out properly. Also of note, if you intend to use the cgi pictured in the screenshots, you should know something about setting up a webserver with proper exec priviledges for cgi.
If you're thinking about using it only for yourself, I would recommend a cleint side solution like Mozzila Thunderbird or Eudora (win32 only) instead. They both have bayesian spam filtering built in and they're *really* easy to set up.
However, the open source strategy is a triple-edge sword.
Ah yes, the old triple edged sword. It's a shame no-one patented this as a the ideal cutting device, sued everyone making single and double edged blades for infringing on the idea and then forced us all to cut our bread with it.
What a bunch of hogwash.
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system,
and possibly program, of all time."
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Programmer's Guide" (forward by Bill Gates)
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like
PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft"
-- Bill Gates, Free Market and the LA Times
Gates: Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is
obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking
in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2.
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Notebook", Microsoft Press, (c) 1990--an excerpt from an
interview with Bill Gates and Jim Cannavino, p. 614
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates circa 1981
a war department euphemsim for "people killing each other with their bare hands"?
I agree with all of this, and in addition:
I suggest the original poster take a good long, hard look at the Cuban missle crisis. Many analysts have commented that, if you play the same scenario over a 100 times, 99 times it ends in total (effectively, global) nuclear war.
I don't believe this to be hyperbole. Seeing some of the evidence and testimony that has been released about that crisis would likely make you shit your pants.
With all of the R&D monies and brainpower thrown at the scientific priciples behind something like splitting an atom, you'd like to think the same brilliance would be applied to it's applications.
Not so.
Tech guru at the Playboy mansion.
I find the attitude of the author a bit extreme.
As a system administrator for a medium sized company, I consider myself very computer literate.
Can I write (or read) assembly code? Not fluently, or in any way that's useful no.
Does it matter?
Um, no.
There are degrees of intimacy with technology; you only need to go so deep for any given task.
To suggest that everyone in the future need be a programmer or be able to work a CLI simply to survive is idiotic. Understanding computers (in a practical day-to-day sense) is not about speaking their language, it's about realizing what they can (or can't) do and knowing (vaguely) how they do it, even if it's from a macroscopic level.
Besides, companies will always dumb down their products so they can sell to the masses. HTF do you figure microsoft keeps going?
I mean, I am something of a CLI zealot, but even I can appreciate the neccesity to simplify for simplicity's sake. It's happened before and the trend will continue.
If the author had been around for the birth of the automobile, he would claim that everyone in the 21st century would need to be an automotive engineer, just to keep up.
What a crock of alarmist shit.
Another wonderful illustration of what is wrong with Microsoft's stance on security. I think the quote says it all quite succinctly.
So if a universe suddenly springs into existence, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
I suggest you use Mozilla for web browsing.
Then go to www.google.com and answer the rest of these inane questions in about 30 mins of your own time.
Ok, well, this quote worried me:
Games are still too difficult for a mass audience.
C'mon. There are hundreds of games geared for mindless twitch responses (fps, and even some rts these days); even those have Easy, Medium, Hard and Hurt Me Plenty settings. People have been lamenting the trend towards glitzy mass-appeal games with great graphics and little content/challenge/gameplay/longevity for years.
How much fucking easier (read: boring) do games have to get? And why? So my grandmother can play too?
Another choice quote:
"People reveal who they really are when they can try things in a safe environment."
Sorry, I think it's the opposite: people show who they are when they make choices that matter, not when there are no consequences.
What the hell is crap like this doing in this forum anyway?
I'm already pretty familiar with my tendency to misspell stuff etc...and I don't need another clippy (hell, none of us do)
How about something potentially more useful, like a system that gently prompts you to save files using a certain naming convention, or helps tell you where to file certin documents, how to format email headers to make them useful etc....all according to a certain policy. Such a system could conceivably help organize documents consistenly for later retrieval; it would also facilitate more efficient brute-force searching (ala a google appliance or whatnot).
Information retrival (and I'm talking business related stuff) is made most simple when said information is filed and named consistently.
From personal experience, people in our company routinely spend quite a bit of time searching for historical company documents (ie how much did we pay for suchandsuch material last time? What did we bill the client? How big was that convention centre? what were their rates? Etc).
Sure, we have a filing policy and naming conventions in effect, but educating the users to use the system (and use it well...if at all) is surprisingly difficult.
Of course, I am also familiar with Edward's Law "You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem".
Okay, I hate to regress towards Dude Mentality, but I have to say it: Ransom Love is pretty much the coolest frickin' name I have ever heard. Period.
5:45pm EST.
Site is toast. Can't wait to read the article.
A book that my girlfriend gave me for my birthday last year (yes, she kicks ass) might prove to be a good complimentary read:
Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
It's a quick, sometimes funny essay on the merits of *nix and its paradigms...including the CLI. IMHO most of it, if not all, is bang-on.
Preaching to the choir? Maybe. Personally, I'll read anything by Stephenson at least once.
I bought my zip drive within a few weeks of its initial release, and I have YET to have a problem. Compared to today's standards: A bit slow? Yeah. Defective? Hardly.
Want to talk defective? I've got a stack of Maxtor hard drives...
hehe. had to reply...
I've built, maintained and fixed/upgraded hundreds (thousands?) of systems. When the HD fails miserably (it's always miserable, isn't it?), 9 times out of 10 it's a Maxtor drive. WTF is up with that? I can't think of another manufacturer of hardware that I am more wary of.
Where's my $40 token gesture, you bastards?
Are they absolutely sure it's a real cease and desist? Seems like this guy would be a prime target for a practical joke...
....
well the Friday the 13th drop dead date might be a clue
Yeah, and the punchline would be delivered to the pranksters in the form of a threatening letter from the real Mastercard lawyers, ordering a cease and desist of all attempts to falsely represent Mastercard litigation policy.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
>open mailbox
The mailbox is overflowing with all sorts of gaudy mail with pictures of various commodities and colourful logos.
You feel slightly uneasy...
>run away
You can't do that right now.
>west
You are standing in front of a McDonalds(tm) restaurant.
There is a can of Coke(tm) here.
>drink Coke
It's very refreshing...
>west
It is dark here. You might be eaten by a grue(tm).