Postfix+MailScanner+SpamAssassin+Dovecot is an excellent setup. I've been doing that for years at work. What's nice is I have MailScanner run every message through ClamAV, BitDefender, and F-Prot. It does attachment filtering (.com's, especially). Phishing detection, web bug removal, etc. I've been very happy with it.
Is anyone else fed up with this phrase? Nearly everything on the Internet is copyrighted. Everything on my website is copyrighted. The Xen kernel I just download is copyrighted. The ISOs of FC6 I just downloaded consist of thousands of copyrighted programs.
My webhost, for example, displays a warning every time I ssh in that says it's a violation of the terms of service to store "copyrighted materials" on the server. Like a smartass I emailed them a few times and asked if that meant I would have to release my songs in the public domain and why they violate that by storing/using copyrighted tools (the Linux system, Apache, etc), but didn't get any replies.
This almost pisses me off as much as calling copyright infringement "piracy". </rant>
It'd be really nice if more people used 24 hour time. I've had my watches set to that since I was in elementary school (mid 20's now). Still, many people get confused when you say it's 19:08 rather than 7:08 pm.
I'm assuming the grand parent meant he worked from 09:00-20:00.
I used Gmail to store my homework. This required me to send zipped solutions (VB.NET and C#) which included exe files. Renaming the zip to txt lets you send the files. It is rather annoying.
Use them. They rock. Query Browser does everything I used in phpMyAdmin and much more. DBDesigner4 and and it's (currently rather unstable) replacement, Workbench, are extremely useful for designing/modifying databases. I prefer PostgreSQL for speed, stability, and features, but I develop in MySQL just because of those tools.
If it's a computer running Windows 98 I'd highly doubt it would be able to run a modern Linux distro adequately. I've dealt with that on older computers such as a Dell Optiplex GX1 (450mhz p3 w/512 ram). Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, Mandriva, etc, all run rather poorly. 2000 will run usably, so will XP if you disable the fisher price theme.
Before Novell bought them Ximian forked OpenOffice. The site (ooo.ximian.com) is gone and I haven't been able to find it on Novell's site. The WayBack Machine has it, though.
I usually drive with my cruise control. If someone comes up behind me I just stay at 58 and ignore them. If it's at night I flip off the cruise control then then use the gas to ease the speed down until they get fed up enough to pass. If they have their brights on I don't ease it down; I just let it drop.
There is an open source (BSD) plugin available. Microsoft is funding it. So are a few other companies. Quoting their blog:
Launching of 0.3-M1 release By Jean Goffinet, Thursday 30 November 2006 at 12:04:: posted to General
Last week we released version 0.3-M1 of the converter. What do those numbers mean?
0.3 means that we are now working mainly on the reverse conversion (from DOCX to ODT); the direct conversion will still continue to be improved, but it will be far less visible than during the previous months (we fixed a lot of bugs since the last release, though - the number of open bugs on SourceForge dropped from more than 100 to less than 50 at the time of the release)
M1 stands for "Milestone 1" and corresponds to a set of features that were implemented according to the roadmap of the project.
For simple documents, the reverse conversion works quite fine, allowing users to manipulate OpenDocument text files directly in Word. Our main concern is now to make the process of opening an ODT file and saving it back to ODT as accurate as possible. That means that if we have to implement workarounds to convert features that are not directly available in one format or the other, those workarounds will have to be preserved during the reverse conversion. To ensure that this process works fine, we iterate it several times on one file, and see the final result as something we could call the "fix point" of the converter (refering to a famous mathematical theorem - but I'm not sure of the english name).
Once we have an acceptable result for direct / reverse conversions, we will enhance our transformations so that they can also work correctly on legacy doc files produced by previous versions of Word (there are tons of features that are marked as deprecated in the OpenXML specification).
You don't need to use wavs. You can use Apple Lossless on your iPod Shuffle and get about half the size. Space would still be an issue on a Shuffle, though.
Well without DRM you'd be free to decode the high bitrate MP3 and then re-encode it. Most codecs butcher the quality too much for re-encoding. If you have a high quality file you wont be able to tell the difference between that and the original when listening. If you re-encode it, though, the artifacts become more obvious. Even when re-encoding at a high bitrate. One thing that always stands out to me are the cymbals. On a re-encode they always sound like they're under water. Many other things sound distorted, or get the underwater sound to them. Also various ringing sounds appear.
Personally I can't normally hear the diff between 128 and the CD but there are some tracks where I can, so I univerally use 192kbit with q=0 [q=0 because I have a fast CPU and I don't care if it gives me 0.000000001% better quality]. It also means that if I have to recompress to say OGG or something in the future I stand to have fewer encoding artifacts. LAME rocks. You should try one of it's presets, though. They're always updated to get the best possible quality and have tunings that aren't available on the command line. What I currently use to encode music is this:
lame -q 0 -p --replaygain-accurate --vbr-new --preset standard
The bitrate will vary by the song. When I was encoding some Johnny Cash last week some of the songs encoded ~128. When I was encoding some Bleeding Through most were around ~224. When I LAME encode an MP3 like that I can't tell the difference at all between the original and the the MP3, even on my Delta 1010LT sound card and my Sennheiser HD250II headphones.
I don't think downloads should be at anything less than 192kbit/sec MP3 (similar rate for MP4/WMA). Mostly because if I'm going to pay for a track I want to guarantee that the PSNR is decent (and that any inherant crappyness is due to the poor lyrics or talentless musicians:-)) eMusic uses LAME 3.92's --alt-preset-standard preset, though it would be better if they used a current LAME and --preset standard. Anyway, I'm still happier using eMusic than the alternatives. I'd prefer to download FLACs and encode it myself. I'd pay more for a FLAC, but it would still have to be cheaper than buying a CD and I don't see that happening any time soon.
There is an Ultimate BootCD for Windows which is based off of BartPE. I use it regularly and highly recommend it. It includes a good amount of tools and more can be added.
I'd also recommend INSERT. It's a Linux LiveCD that includes ntfs-3g (full read/write support), gParted, the Linux-NTFS tools (ntfsclone and ntfsresize being the most useful to me), and others. It has a GUI (fluxbox is the manager).
Recovery is Possible is also excellent and I use the PXE version heavily. My only complaint about it is that it doesn't have ntfs-3g yet. When I need that, or need to resize partitions (gParted) I use INSERT.
They're also funding this open source (BSD) project to add ODF support to Office XP-2007. It also includes a converter for going OpenDocumentOffice OpenXML without requiring Word.
Schools, Libraries, and Nonprofits can get upgrades to XP for around $20/machine. Office 2003 licenses sometimes are around $10/machine. I'm sure Vista and Office 2007 will be similar.
If doing multiple machines, it's a good idea to resize the filesystem to as small as it will go before creating the image. For example, I generally do 8G since that will usually hold everything:
ntfsresize --size 8G/dev/hda1
Then reboot into windows to let chkdsk run (I use BartPE instead and run chkdsk/f/r c:). Go back to RIP and save your image as above. When restoring a system, run the following command directly after ntfsclone to grow the filesystem to the full size of the partition:
ntfsresize -f/dev/hda1
To write a Windows boot loader use the tool ms-sys:
ms-sys -m/dev/hda
This can be scripted very easily. In the few places where I don't automate the whole install/app install/configuration with Unattended I use a RIP-based netboot. As soon as it boots it restores the image and then restarts the computer. So if I need to reimage a dozen computers all I have to do is walk in the room, turn on the computer, hit F3, and go to the next. Then I come back 15 minutes later and see that all of them are restored.
Most users, though, treat it as an appliance. They want to plug it in not have to learn anything. As long as keeping a system secure requires a user to bother learning something security will be a problem.
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Postfix+MailScanner+SpamAssassin+Dovecot is an excellent setup. I've been doing that for years at work. What's nice is I have MailScanner run every message through ClamAV, BitDefender, and F-Prot. It does attachment filtering (.com's, especially). Phishing detection, web bug removal, etc. I've been very happy with it.
Is anyone else fed up with this phrase? Nearly everything on the Internet is copyrighted. Everything on my website is copyrighted. The Xen kernel I just download is copyrighted. The ISOs of FC6 I just downloaded consist of thousands of copyrighted programs.
My webhost, for example, displays a warning every time I ssh in that says it's a violation of the terms of service to store "copyrighted materials" on the server. Like a smartass I emailed them a few times and asked if that meant I would have to release my songs in the public domain and why they violate that by storing/using copyrighted tools (the Linux system, Apache, etc), but didn't get any replies.
This almost pisses me off as much as calling copyright infringement "piracy".
</rant>
It'd be really nice if more people used 24 hour time. I've had my watches set to that since I was in elementary school (mid 20's now). Still, many people get confused when you say it's 19:08 rather than 7:08 pm.
I'm assuming the grand parent meant he worked from 09:00-20:00.
Same here. "Contemporary Christian", especially, sucks pretty hard IMHO. My mom and aunt love it though.
As for Christian bands, there are some good ones such as Norma Jean, Demon Hunter, and Underoath (a little emo, but still good).
Rename the zip to .txt.
I used Gmail to store my homework. This required me to send zipped solutions (VB.NET and C#) which included exe files. Renaming the zip to txt lets you send the files. It is rather annoying.
That's why the Windows XP Security Guide is distributed a .doc...
Equivalents to Query Browser and DBDesigner4/Workbench.
Use them. They rock. Query Browser does everything I used in phpMyAdmin and much more. DBDesigner4 and and it's (currently rather unstable) replacement, Workbench, are extremely useful for designing/modifying databases. I prefer PostgreSQL for speed, stability, and features, but I develop in MySQL just because of those tools.
It's not line its possible to do acoustic fingerprinting...
If it's a computer running Windows 98 I'd highly doubt it would be able to run a modern Linux distro adequately. I've dealt with that on older computers such as a Dell Optiplex GX1 (450mhz p3 w/512 ram). Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, Mandriva, etc, all run rather poorly. 2000 will run usably, so will XP if you disable the fisher price theme.
Once you get used to it, though, it's really nice. Why should every application waste screen space with a menu bar?
Anyway, I'm posting from my PowerBook right now...
The site is currently at go-ooo.org.
Before Novell bought them Ximian forked OpenOffice. The site (ooo.ximian.com) is gone and I haven't been able to find it on Novell's site. The WayBack Machine has it, though.
I usually drive with my cruise control. If someone comes up behind me I just stay at 58 and ignore them. If it's at night I flip off the cruise control then then use the gas to ease the speed down until they get fed up enough to pass. If they have their brights on I don't ease it down; I just let it drop.
Microsoft will probably be bragging about how Office OpenXML has been submitted as a EMCA standard.
You don't need to use wavs. You can use Apple Lossless on your iPod Shuffle and get about half the size. Space would still be an issue on a Shuffle, though.
lame -q 0 -p --replaygain-accurate --vbr-new --preset standard
The bitrate will vary by the song. When I was encoding some Johnny Cash last week some of the songs encoded ~128. When I was encoding some Bleeding Through most were around ~224. When I LAME encode an MP3 like that I can't tell the difference at all between the original and the the MP3, even on my Delta 1010LT sound card and my Sennheiser HD250II headphones. I don't think downloads should be at anything less than 192kbit/sec MP3 (similar rate for MP4/WMA). Mostly because if I'm going to pay for a track I want to guarantee that the PSNR is decent (and that any inherant crappyness is due to the poor lyrics or talentless musicians
There is an Ultimate BootCD for Windows which is based off of BartPE. I use it regularly and highly recommend it. It includes a good amount of tools and more can be added.
I'd also recommend INSERT. It's a Linux LiveCD that includes ntfs-3g (full read/write support), gParted, the Linux-NTFS tools (ntfsclone and ntfsresize being the most useful to me), and others. It has a GUI (fluxbox is the manager).
Recovery is Possible is also excellent and I use the PXE version heavily. My only complaint about it is that it doesn't have ntfs-3g yet. When I need that, or need to resize partitions (gParted) I use INSERT.
They're also funding this open source (BSD) project to add ODF support to Office XP-2007. It also includes a converter for going OpenDocumentOffice OpenXML without requiring Word.
Schools, Libraries, and Nonprofits can get upgrades to XP for around $20/machine. Office 2003 licenses sometimes are around $10/machine. I'm sure Vista and Office 2007 will be similar.
You should tell them about ntfsclone (part of the Linux NTFS project). The PXE/LiveCD RIP includes it. To back up a system, it's easy:
/dev/hda1 -o - | gzip -9 >hda1.gz
/dev/hda1 -o - | gzip -9 | split -d - hda1.gz_
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda1
/f /r c:). Go back to RIP and save your image as above. When restoring a system, run the following command directly after ntfsclone to grow the filesystem to the full size of the partition:
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda
ntfsclone --save-image
If you want it split up into, say, 512mb files:
ntfsclone --save-image
To restore a system use:
gunzip -c hda1.gz | ntfsclone --restore-image - -O
or if you split it up:
gunzip -c hda1.gz_* | ntfsclone --restore-image - -O
If doing multiple machines, it's a good idea to resize the filesystem to as small as it will go before creating the image. For example, I generally do 8G since that will usually hold everything:
ntfsresize --size 8G
Then reboot into windows to let chkdsk run (I use BartPE instead and run chkdsk
ntfsresize -f
To write a Windows boot loader use the tool ms-sys:
ms-sys -m
This can be scripted very easily. In the few places where I don't automate the whole install/app install/configuration with Unattended I use a RIP-based netboot. As soon as it boots it restores the image and then restarts the computer. So if I need to reimage a dozen computers all I have to do is walk in the room, turn on the computer, hit F3, and go to the next. Then I come back 15 minutes later and see that all of them are restored.
You do know that Microsoft has a Compatability Pack for Office 2000-2003, right? It adds support for the new formats.
He's an idiot every week. Some less than others. Slashdot needs to stop promoting every article he writes, though.
Most users, though, treat it as an appliance. They want to plug it in not have to learn anything. As long as keeping a system secure requires a user to bother learning something security will be a problem.
For two reasons:
1. It's a good place to find independent bands.
2. If you use it right, you can also get girls. That's how I met my current girlfriend a few months ago.