I registered the domain {myfirstname}.net in 1996.
I get several hundred emails a year where people have used {myfirstname}@{myfirstname}.net to sign up to things. It's annoying, yes
Luckily I registered the domain {mylastname}.net in 1997 and now have a different mailbox that {myfirstname}@{mylastname}.net goes to. This one does not suffer in that way.
I used to try resetting passwords and cancelling accounts, but recently I've been signed up for online access to health records(!) using my address. Firstly, it would be unprofessional of me to attempt to access the actual data (since I work in Govt Security). Secondly, the "password reset" functions want a DOB and Postcode (Zip code for those on the left of the Big Pond) to perform a reset.
So I just ignore them, other than marking new ones as spam.
I think it's partly due to the invasive & nosey nature of SO many webs(h)ites - every single one seems to want your email address, so I can't really blame people for providing "throwaway" addresses. I just wish they were not my ACTUAL address.
-- There are two sorts of people: those who can extrapo
> They call it "mugging" over in India (and no, not mugging as in attacking someone and stealing their cash - I have no idea how the term came to be). > You memorize. You don't deviate. You do not think for yourself. You do not understand a concept and come up with a solution; > you only follow the solution that's been provided.
It's from the English "mug up" (http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/mug-up), meaning to quickly learn something.
(English is difficult, but can be understood through thorough thought though:-)
I can commute about 40 miles to work in the rush hour traffic and get over 50mpg without even trying.
Outside of rush hour, a leisurely cruise back along the same route easily gets 60mpg. Best I've ever achieved was 77mpg, but that was actually quite a lot of work. It's not constant speed that you want for maximum mpg, and although using a cruise control gives a reasonable zeroth order approximation, you can do better. Of course, if the road is 200 miles long, with no variation in incline or corners, and no traffic causing you to slow down unnecessarily, then cruise control will equate to the best mpg you can get:-)
If I drive like a nutter, I expect to average around the 26mpg.
Maybe you guys need some European cars? You'd certainly not be satisfied with 30mpg at our current fuel prices ($2/litre)....
You know, even a ship does better than that I think, that is about 10 feet per gallon. I run my ship on wood from old ships. I get 10 miles per *galleon*;-)
*YOU* have not made the horrible miscalculation... I think *they* have.
I got exactly the same figure as you (same assumption - 2% efficiency for standard lightbulb, which is close enough, and 100% efficiency for LED, which is close enough as it's really about 98%)
That means it requires, for the claimed performance, 40 x more energy than the falling weight can give it.
So IF it worked, it would really run for 4 hours / 40 = 0.1 hours = 6 minutes. Not QUITE so much appeal there, to be honest.
Contrast that with the very best longcase clocks which can run for a whole year on one winding. I know which I'd find more interesting:-)
"PKI - there is no P and no I.... in practice it is just a bunch of K...." - me
S/MIME is great. Inside a single organisation. But beyond that.... forget it. And I have seen many MANY attempts across MANY serious organisations.
Webs of trust are not the only trust model PGP can implement. In the serious business world, PGP Universal is making steady progress; policy driven, nice and easy for the users. Of course, it supports S/MIME too for all the poor souls in external organisations stuck with that:-)
The Europeans got their act together over prevention of photocopying cash a LONG time ago. All European notes (including the ones phased out when the Euro came in) contain Eurions;-)
Hmm. Sounds more like your "DNS Provider" doesn't support a way for you to put TXT records in place. The actual DNS software itself WILL support TXT records unless it is the worlds most bizarre DNS software:-)
Move your DNS to someone like www.xname.org who support the whole lot, and the service is free (supported by donations)
This doesn't mean you have to change your REGISTRAR, just where the DNS is delegated to for your domain.
Unfortunately, I have suffered from this. Having a common first name (say, for example, Robert) and owning the associated.net domain, and using firstname@ said domain was cool for the first few years. But now it gets all sorts of junk (quite aside from the spam) where people have used it on forms etc.
If you WANT to use a junk address, make sure it really does NOT exist first!
Or, if you HAVE to provide support from home - insist on doing it via the bandwidth they provide. That means, regardless of your own personal broadband connection, that you dial up via your company mobile ONLY, or that you dial up via modem (pref 9600 unless they BUY you a 56K one) making sure you claim back any call charges. If the support they get via this means is shit, then they have some simple choices:
1) stop being tight bastards 2) live with it 3) get someone else to do the support
My company treats me well. They don't fund my broadband (can't even GET broadband here yet!) but they pay for my mobile which I can dial up via (GPRS ~34Kbps or data call ~22Kbps). And they don't hassle me about personal calls on my mobile. Therefore I'm not bothered about doing support via my own landline dialup (56Kbps) - nor will I be bothered about it when I do get broadband soon (finally, no thanks at all to British so-called-"Telecom" [long overdue for breaking up, the b'stards]). But they earned that by treating me well so I treat them well in return. It's called give and take.
If they turned round and treated me like shit then a) they would get no goodwill in return b) I would get another job
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Yes people really are.
I registered the domain {myfirstname}.net in 1996.
I get several hundred emails a year where people have used {myfirstname}@{myfirstname}.net to sign up to things. It's annoying, yes
Luckily I registered the domain {mylastname}.net in 1997 and now have a different mailbox that {myfirstname}@{mylastname}.net goes to. This one does not suffer in that way.
I used to try resetting passwords and cancelling accounts, but recently I've been signed up for online access to health records(!) using my address. Firstly, it would be unprofessional of me to attempt to access the actual data (since I work in Govt Security). Secondly, the "password reset" functions want a DOB and Postcode (Zip code for those on the left of the Big Pond) to perform a reset.
So I just ignore them, other than marking new ones as spam.
I think it's partly due to the invasive & nosey nature of SO many webs(h)ites - every single one seems to want your email address, so I can't really blame people for providing "throwaway" addresses. I just wish they were not my ACTUAL address.
--
There are two sorts of people: those who can extrapo
32F = 0C
35F = 1.667C
20C = 68F
Oops.
> They call it "mugging" over in India (and no, not mugging as in attacking someone and stealing their cash - I have no idea how the term came to be).
> You memorize. You don't deviate. You do not think for yourself. You do not understand a concept and come up with a solution;
> you only follow the solution that's been provided.
It's from the English "mug up" (http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/mug-up), meaning to quickly learn something.
(English is difficult, but can be understood through thorough thought though :-)
(usually its combined with your debit or cash withdrawl card, I've never seen a standalone cheque guarantee card)
Sir, your youth is showing ;-)
"Standalone" (ie single function) Cheque Guarantee Cards were common back in the 1980's.
--
They're from Mars. You do the English.
It's like "plug and play" - that worked 50% too. As in, "plug" always worked, it was just the "play" bit that had problems...
So when a major world event happens, 100+ people will see an out-of-date page and submit an edit.
Which one will be chosen? The first? The best? How do you reconcile conflicting edits made to the article?
Sounds like an UGLY mess to me.....
Also, is ANYTHING still useful in 80 years? Cars, buildings, roads, all that stuff wears out and becomes obsolete after a long enough time.
I live in a house built in 1560. It's still very useful to me and my family. I make that about 448 years or 5.6 TIMES 80 years.
So she's a lightweight user of txting :-)
HEAVY use would be sending more than 2 a minute.
Close, but no cigar!
Don't label them.
Archive the content onto your home SANs or equivalent.
Ta-da! They're now empty, so it matters not a jot to whom each "belongs".
> This is seriously not a difficult enough problem to warrant a /. story..
Oh, SO true!
You're proud of 30mpg?
I can commute about 40 miles to work in the rush hour traffic and get over 50mpg without even trying.
Outside of rush hour, a leisurely cruise back along the same route easily gets 60mpg. Best I've ever achieved was 77mpg, but that was actually quite a lot of work. It's not constant speed that you want for maximum mpg, and although using a cruise control gives a reasonable zeroth order approximation, you can do better. Of course, if the road is 200 miles long, with no variation in incline or corners, and no traffic causing you to slow down unnecessarily, then cruise control will equate to the best mpg you can get :-)
If I drive like a nutter, I expect to average around the 26mpg.
Maybe you guys need some European cars? You'd certainly not be satisfied with 30mpg at our current fuel prices ($2/litre)....
"An anonymous reader writes"
It's OK. Relax. We know who you are. Just sit still and wait for the knock on the door....
You really don't want to joke about IPv8.... Read this, it's INSANE.... http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/06944.html
> [...] written when ActiveX was king [...]
Jeez, I must have slept through that bit... When was this exactly? :-)
...and I remember when some "microsoft partners" were told (very hush hush) that a GUI-less version of windows2000 would be released.
We're still waiting.
It's not like a Unix system, where a GUI is built on top of a CLI. Windows is GUI by design from the start. It's a whole different kettle of meat.
*YOU* have not made the horrible miscalculation... I think *they* have.
:-)
I got exactly the same figure as you (same assumption - 2% efficiency for standard lightbulb, which is close enough, and 100% efficiency for LED, which is close enough as it's really about 98%)
That means it requires, for the claimed performance, 40 x more energy than the falling weight can give it.
So IF it worked, it would really run for 4 hours / 40 = 0.1 hours = 6 minutes. Not QUITE so much appeal there, to be honest.
Contrast that with the very best longcase clocks which can run for a whole year on one winding. I know which I'd find more interesting
"PKI - there is no P and no I.... in practice it is just a bunch of K...." - me
:-)
S/MIME is great. Inside a single organisation. But beyond that.... forget it. And I have seen many MANY attempts across MANY serious organisations.
Webs of trust are not the only trust model PGP can implement. In the serious business world, PGP Universal is making steady progress; policy driven, nice and easy for the users. Of course, it supports S/MIME too for all the poor souls in external organisations stuck with that
comprehensive list of all the naughty girls and their stockings!
;-)
Now THAT is a list worth seeing IMHO....
>> In short, Debian and Gentoo really don't belong in the corporate world, as they stand now. They're both more hacker-oriented anyways.
!!
> Riiiigggghhhhttttt..... While I find Debian to be the easiest to install, update and use and the stable branch is rock solid.
Absolutely. Same here.
Patch all your corporate critical systems quickly from a local apt-mirror? Job jobbed...
Maybe you were seeing Eurions?
;-)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf
The Europeans got their act together over prevention of photocopying cash a LONG time ago. All European notes (including the ones phased out when the Euro came in) contain Eurions
Hmm. Sounds more like your "DNS Provider" doesn't support a way for you to put TXT records in place. The actual DNS software itself WILL support TXT records unless it is the worlds most bizarre DNS software :-)
Move your DNS to someone like www.xname.org who support the whole lot, and the service is free (supported by donations)
This doesn't mean you have to change your REGISTRAR, just where the DNS is delegated to for your domain.
> The remaining 140 or so are spam. No, I'm not exageratting the numbers,
:-(
I just wish that I could return to the days when I *ONLY* got 140 spam a day.
My oldest email addresses are > 15 years old and on every spam list going, sadly.
My current AVERAGE is 1000 spam / day - even after rejecting mail from RBL'd origins
You see - 140 a day is managable. I can work my way through deleting 140 spams in about 2 minutes but then I get a LOT of practice....
Unfortunately, I have suffered from this. Having a common first name (say, for example, Robert) and owning the associated .net domain, and using firstname@ said domain was cool for the first few years. But now it gets all sorts of junk (quite aside from the spam) where people have used it on forms etc.
If you WANT to use a junk address, make sure it really does NOT exist first!
Or, if you HAVE to provide support from home - insist on doing it via the bandwidth they provide. That means, regardless of your own personal broadband connection, that you dial up via your company mobile ONLY, or that you dial up via modem (pref 9600 unless they BUY you a 56K one) making sure you claim back any call charges. If the support they get via this means is shit, then they have some simple choices:
1) stop being tight bastards
2) live with it
3) get someone else to do the support
My company treats me well. They don't fund my broadband (can't even GET broadband here yet!) but they pay for my mobile which I can dial up via (GPRS ~34Kbps or data call ~22Kbps). And they don't hassle me about personal calls on my mobile. Therefore I'm not bothered about doing support via my own landline dialup (56Kbps) - nor will I be bothered about it when I do get broadband soon (finally, no thanks at all to British so-called-"Telecom" [long overdue for breaking up, the b'stards]). But they earned that by treating me well so I treat them well in return. It's called give and take.
If they turned round and treated me like shit then
a) they would get no goodwill in return
b) I would get another job
441 Desktops? That's like, er, 22 too many isn't it; surely these should be *419* desktops? :-)