Yes, I know, I used that link for a reason. Also from that link:
However, when the meaning is further extended to include large-scale destruction other than killing, as in The supply of fresh produce was decimated by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, only 26 percent of the Panel accepts the usage.
I'm picky, while your grasp of the English language ranks with the bottom 26% of the population.
Now, I've heard enough about Kilmore to not like him, but please, do NOT but words in his mouth.
Apparently you haven't heard enough about him to know his name. It's Kilgore.
Read the other reply to your post and learn, Daniel-son. Kilgore wants to regulate your sex life. He's sufficiently effeminate that I suspect that he's acting out as a part of repressing his own homosexual tendencies, but that's obviously nothin' but speculation.
It appears, based on the article, that this was the product of work by Republican Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. I'm pleased that he's enforcing the law, but by way of background, I should point out why he's choosing to enforce this particular law at this particular time.
Our governor, Mark Warner, is a millionaire hundreds of times over, having made his fortune in tech in Northern Virginia. He got elected on the strength of his business and tech expertise. His term is up in two years, and, under Virginia law, he can't run for reelection. So the race is on between Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine and Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, the presumed Democratic and Republican nominees.
As is often the case with vice-anythings, Kaine is forced to live under the shadow of Gov. Warner for the time being, while Kilgore is under the shadow of nobody. Kilgore tends to spend most of his time ensuring that people aren't having sex (he's working to keep Virginia's ridiculous bedroom laws on the books; sex outside of marriage is illegal, oral sex is illegal, homosexuality is illegal, etc.) and attempting to keep from getting indicted for his role in the recent Republican wiretapping scandal, something that has just been revealed in the past week.
So, Kilgore gets a twofer with this prosecution. Not only is this yet another thing that he can tout on the campaign trail ("Kaine? Tech? Hell, I brought two spammers back from Carolina, hog-tied and all!"), but he's no doubt hoping that this will overshadow, at least for a few precious days, some of the accusations against him for wiretapping charges.
Again, I'm glad to see this law enforced. Virginia's law is badly-written, in the sense that it must be enforced by Commonwealth's Attorneys, and few of them have the slightest concept of how to or desire to do so. It's good that our Attorney General is willing to take the lead in cracking down.
As I'm sure many of us that run our own mail servers have found, I've got a good dozen addresses that have never existed to which spammers attempt to send mail. I get hundreds of attempts to send spam to these addresses each day. For a while, I was forwarding these messages to an RBL, but my mail queue just got too huge.
What I would like is a tool that hooks into Postfix (or whatever MTA; I use Postfix) that not only blacklists the sending IPs on my machine, but even reports the sending IP to an RBL. At a bare minimum, this would be a useful tool for me, since it would keep these spammers from proceeding to send spam to any other addresses on my server. At best, this simple method of confirming that a spammer is a spammer could help to reduce spam on the whole.
Nearly all of it, in 1996. (I broke my feet, and so I'm missing MA, CT and VT.) I actually carried a laptop and blogged it (although we didn't have that word then).
When hiking the Appalachian Trail, knowing what the weather would be like for at least the next 12 hours or so was as easy and unconscious as knowing how I felt and how I would be feeling in the near future.
Now that I'm off the trail, that skill is all but gone, unfortunately. It just takes a few days out of doors, though, and I start to pick it up again.
To be frank, if your critical business data was that disk-bound, you were taking a heck of a lot of chances as it is, the way you were running your system.
I can see that I was unclear. I only mentioned that I had just started my first (bootstrapped) business to indicate that I was poor.:) Christ, no, I didn't host anything important on an iMac sitting on a desk in my apartment.:)
The Yellow Dog Linux server was just for my personal SMTP (not mail storage) and websites (nothing exciting or crucial), plus a handful of MP3s and the like in my home directory. All told, it was about a GB of stuff that I'd have to somehow get off of this USB-only iMac (/var/log, etc, and home, I imagine) and back onto a new system, and I literally could not find a single method of doing so. Not only were USB hard drives quite uncommon, but they were also well beyond my financial means (the cost of the x86 that I ultimately bought), and I'm not even sure that they would have worked under YDL 1.X, anyhow. It was simply easier to bail on YDL than upgrade.
They told me that I would have to back up my machine, wipe the hard drive, install anew, and then copy my data and configuration back over. I had just started my own business, and the system in question was my first Apple (and only computer at the time), a Rev. A Bondi iMac. With only USB ports and virtually no USB devices out there at the time, I didn't have any method of copying data off of the machine. Sure, it would be good practice to upgrade in the manner prescribed by Terrasoft, but for somebody like me, running a simple home SMTP and HTTP server, it ought not be required.
I never did install YDL 2.0; the discs are still sitting in the box. I saved my pennies and bought an eMachine for $300 a couple of months later. I'm still using that machine as my basic home SMTP and HTTP server, and I haven't used a Mac as a server or run Linux on a Mac ever since. The iMac lives on in the home of my brother and his wife, running OS X.
I've been looking to run Linux on my G3 iBook and my G4 Powermac, and I've tried Gentoo and SuSE thus far. I've been considering Yellowdog, but I'm not going to get back on that train if I'm just going to get screwed. Does anybody know if Terrasoft has cleaned up their act, and is now making it possible to upgrade between major releases?
Remember, kids: for good ol' fashioned batteries, you can't beat Radio Shack brand batteries, sez Consumer Reports. Plus, their alkaline D batteries really are Ds, and not Cs in D cases. Longest life, lowest price, non-deceptive -- what's not to like?
I read over the/. blurb, and skimmed the related article, all the while nodding to myself and thinking "Hell yeah...I use ENUM as the data type in MySQL all the time, and I've been doing it for years. I am so ahead of the curve. I rock."
"Steve Salter, an aircraft engineer in the UK, suggested the contrail might have come from the Concorde, whose flight timing would have put it in the vicinity at the right time. Others deduced the same.
'I think the most likely explanation is that this is an unusual view of the Concorde's contrail,' the APOD's Bonnell told SPACE.com late last week."
Mind you, what's being discussed is this photo and this photo, each of which show -- fairly plainly -- huge flaming explosions leaving a trail of smoke behind them.
Now, let there be no doubt that NASA is collectively a hell of a lot smarter than me. But, seriously, you're telling me that a tiny little plane like the Concorde is releasing a huge, explosion-shaped contrail behind it?
Well, it's no wonder they decommissioned the damned things.
One of the reasons Wisdom Tree published NES games without becoming a Nintendo licensee is that Wisdom Tree wanted to publish religious edutainment, but Nintendo had a policy of not allowing overt religious content in the games.
That's really very interesting. Thanks for turning my off-topic post into something useful.:)
Man, for the life of me, I could not understand why it was such a big deal that the "New GameCube Network Loader Runs Hebrew Games." I mean, don't they sell Nintendos in Israel? I found myself quite literally scratching my head over the matter, and even headed over to nintendo.co.il.
Remember that many librarians are hard-core civil libertarians. The ALA should be every geek's new best friend. Having served on a library board, I can tell you that most libraries as entities are quite concerned about privacy issues, doing all that they can to ensure that patrons leave as short of a data trail as is possible. (That is, they don't retain records of books that people have checked out [once they're returned], schedule their data backup system such that the trail of patron data is as short as possible, etc.)
As both a geek/privacy nut and a library advocate, I am excited at the prospect of library books using RFID tags. The benefits to libraries will be enormous -- checkout and return will be greatly simplified, to say nothing of the ease of sorting and confirming placement of shelved books.
I, for one, welcome my new library RFID overlords.
Actually, Srinidhi Varadarajan (who gave the first portion of the presentation) said that there would only be 4GB of RAM in each machine. Why not 8GB, I don't know.
Damn, I've been at this school for a week and I haven't found a single redeeming value. Finally, a cause to hang in there for the next couple of years.
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From the link you provided:
This comes under the heading of the truly picky.
Yes, I know, I used that link for a reason. Also from that link:
However, when the meaning is further extended to include large-scale destruction other than killing, as in The supply of fresh produce was decimated by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, only 26 percent of the Panel accepts the usage.
I'm picky, while your grasp of the English language ranks with the bottom 26% of the population.
I win.
-Waldo Jaquith
We discussed this in October ("AOL to Launch Discount 'Netscape' Internet Service", to the tune of 358 comments.
-Waldo Jaquith
Of course, there was the decimation of the Circle K...
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Yes, it was decimated -- exactly one-tenth of it was destroyed
-Waldo Jaquith
http://www.google.com/search?q=jerry+kilgore+sex
-Waldo Jaquith
Now, I've heard enough about Kilmore to not like him, but please, do NOT but words in his mouth.
Apparently you haven't heard enough about him to know his name. It's Kilgore.
Read the other reply to your post and learn, Daniel-son. Kilgore wants to regulate your sex life. He's sufficiently effeminate that I suspect that he's acting out as a part of repressing his own homosexual tendencies, but that's obviously nothin' but speculation.
-Waldo Jaquith
How does he enforce this?
I dunno. Ask this poor bastard.
-Waldo Jaquith
well in my state, its illegal tp post under an assumed name, so now my DA will go to your state, and drag your ass back here.
:)
My name is Waldo Jaquith. Unless your legal name is "geekoid," I'd say you're the one with trouble.
-Waldo Jaquith
It appears, based on the article, that this was the product of work by Republican Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. I'm pleased that he's enforcing the law, but by way of background, I should point out why he's choosing to enforce this particular law at this particular time.
Our governor, Mark Warner, is a millionaire hundreds of times over, having made his fortune in tech in Northern Virginia. He got elected on the strength of his business and tech expertise. His term is up in two years, and, under Virginia law, he can't run for reelection. So the race is on between Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine and Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, the presumed Democratic and Republican nominees.
As is often the case with vice-anythings, Kaine is forced to live under the shadow of Gov. Warner for the time being, while Kilgore is under the shadow of nobody. Kilgore tends to spend most of his time ensuring that people aren't having sex (he's working to keep Virginia's ridiculous bedroom laws on the books; sex outside of marriage is illegal, oral sex is illegal, homosexuality is illegal, etc.) and attempting to keep from getting indicted for his role in the recent Republican wiretapping scandal, something that has just been revealed in the past week.
So, Kilgore gets a twofer with this prosecution. Not only is this yet another thing that he can tout on the campaign trail ("Kaine? Tech? Hell, I brought two spammers back from Carolina, hog-tied and all!"), but he's no doubt hoping that this will overshadow, at least for a few precious days, some of the accusations against him for wiretapping charges.
Again, I'm glad to see this law enforced. Virginia's law is badly-written, in the sense that it must be enforced by Commonwealth's Attorneys, and few of them have the slightest concept of how to or desire to do so. It's good that our Attorney General is willing to take the lead in cracking down.
-Waldo Jaquith
As I'm sure many of us that run our own mail servers have found, I've got a good dozen addresses that have never existed to which spammers attempt to send mail. I get hundreds of attempts to send spam to these addresses each day. For a while, I was forwarding these messages to an RBL, but my mail queue just got too huge.
What I would like is a tool that hooks into Postfix (or whatever MTA; I use Postfix) that not only blacklists the sending IPs on my machine, but even reports the sending IP to an RBL. At a bare minimum, this would be a useful tool for me, since it would keep these spammers from proceeding to send spam to any other addresses on my server. At best, this simple method of confirming that a spammer is a spammer could help to reduce spam on the whole.
-Waldo Jaquith
Nearly all of it, in 1996. (I broke my feet, and so I'm missing MA, CT and VT.) I actually carried a laptop and blogged it (although we didn't have that word then).
-Waldo Jaquith
When hiking the Appalachian Trail, knowing what the weather would be like for at least the next 12 hours or so was as easy and unconscious as knowing how I felt and how I would be feeling in the near future.
Now that I'm off the trail, that skill is all but gone, unfortunately. It just takes a few days out of doors, though, and I start to pick it up again.
-Waldo Jaquith
To be frank, if your critical business data was that disk-bound, you were taking a heck of a lot of chances as it is, the way you were running your system.
:) Christ, no, I didn't host anything important on an iMac sitting on a desk in my apartment. :)
I can see that I was unclear. I only mentioned that I had just started my first (bootstrapped) business to indicate that I was poor.
The Yellow Dog Linux server was just for my personal SMTP (not mail storage) and websites (nothing exciting or crucial), plus a handful of MP3s and the like in my home directory. All told, it was about a GB of stuff that I'd have to somehow get off of this USB-only iMac (/var/log, etc, and home, I imagine) and back onto a new system, and I literally could not find a single method of doing so. Not only were USB hard drives quite uncommon, but they were also well beyond my financial means (the cost of the x86 that I ultimately bought), and I'm not even sure that they would have worked under YDL 1.X, anyhow. It was simply easier to bail on YDL than upgrade.
-Waldo Jaquith
I was a die-hard YDL user from day one, buying copies from Terrasoft to support the company and even preordering 2.0. Imagine my surprise when I found that it was simply impossible to upgrade to 2.0.
They told me that I would have to back up my machine, wipe the hard drive, install anew, and then copy my data and configuration back over. I had just started my own business, and the system in question was my first Apple (and only computer at the time), a Rev. A Bondi iMac. With only USB ports and virtually no USB devices out there at the time, I didn't have any method of copying data off of the machine. Sure, it would be good practice to upgrade in the manner prescribed by Terrasoft, but for somebody like me, running a simple home SMTP and HTTP server, it ought not be required.
I never did install YDL 2.0; the discs are still sitting in the box. I saved my pennies and bought an eMachine for $300 a couple of months later. I'm still using that machine as my basic home SMTP and HTTP server, and I haven't used a Mac as a server or run Linux on a Mac ever since. The iMac lives on in the home of my brother and his wife, running OS X.
I've been looking to run Linux on my G3 iBook and my G4 Powermac, and I've tried Gentoo and SuSE thus far. I've been considering Yellowdog, but I'm not going to get back on that train if I'm just going to get screwed. Does anybody know if Terrasoft has cleaned up their act, and is now making it possible to upgrade between major releases?
-Waldo Jaquith
Let's not forget that Cringely got caught for his long-time claim that he had a PhD and taught at Stanford.
-Waldo Jaquith
Does anyone remember the whole Dot-Com Bubble?
I like how you present that as new information. As if we might all be going "yeeaaahhhh...I totally forgot about that!"
-Waldo Jaquith
Remember, kids: for good ol' fashioned batteries, you can't beat Radio Shack brand batteries, sez Consumer Reports. Plus, their alkaline D batteries really are Ds, and not Cs in D cases. Longest life, lowest price, non-deceptive -- what's not to like?
-Waldo Jaquith
Man, I feel stupid.
/. blurb, and skimmed the related article, all the while nodding to myself and thinking "Hell yeah...I use ENUM as the data type in MySQL all the time, and I've been doing it for years. I am so ahead of the curve. I rock."
I read over the
D'oh. Wrong ENUM.
-Waldo Jaquith
Now, let there be no doubt that NASA is collectively a hell of a lot smarter than me. But, seriously, you're telling me that a tiny little plane like the Concorde is releasing a huge, explosion-shaped contrail behind it?
Well, it's no wonder they decommissioned the damned things.
-Waldo Jaquith
One of the reasons Wisdom Tree published NES games without becoming a Nintendo licensee is that Wisdom Tree wanted to publish religious edutainment, but Nintendo had a policy of not allowing overt religious content in the games.
:)
That's really very interesting. Thanks for turning my off-topic post into something useful.
-Waldo Jaquith
Man, for the life of me, I could not understand why it was such a big deal that the "New GameCube Network Loader Runs Hebrew Games." I mean, don't they sell Nintendos in Israel? I found myself quite literally scratching my head over the matter, and even headed over to nintendo.co.il.
Oh. Homebrew. D'oh.
-Waldo Jaquith
Remember that many librarians are hard-core civil libertarians. The ALA should be every geek's new best friend. Having served on a library board, I can tell you that most libraries as entities are quite concerned about privacy issues, doing all that they can to ensure that patrons leave as short of a data trail as is possible. (That is, they don't retain records of books that people have checked out [once they're returned], schedule their data backup system such that the trail of patron data is as short as possible, etc.)
As both a geek/privacy nut and a library advocate, I am excited at the prospect of library books using RFID tags. The benefits to libraries will be enormous -- checkout and return will be greatly simplified, to say nothing of the ease of sorting and confirming placement of shelved books.
I, for one, welcome my new library RFID overlords.
-Waldo Jaquith
We talked about this on May 18, 2002. The BBC had pretty much the same article back then, only it was marginally more informative.
-Waldo Jaquith
I just got Bluetooth!
Stupid technology...
-Waldo Jaquith
Actually, Srinidhi Varadarajan (who gave the first portion of the presentation) said that there would only be 4GB of RAM in each machine. Why not 8GB, I don't know.
-Waldo Jaquith
Damn, I've been at this school for a week and I haven't found a single redeeming value. Finally, a cause to hang in there for the next couple of years.
-Waldo Jaquith