Lesson to be learned: twitter isnt a great news source, and neither are twitter-derived news sites. Nor is Slashdot, truth be told. It's a masterful work of fiction though.
I uncheck the "Show Ads" box in Gmail. Strangely, the section of UI that usually shows ads looks like a big empty space. You can tell they designed it around the ads.
That's not Windows' fault, that's incompetent administrators adding "Domain Users" to the Administrators group on that server or the "Domain Administrators" group on the domain.
Not relevant. The NT kernel itself rarely ever crashes (if the kernel crashes, is it even capable of displaying the blue screen?!?) so the crash count of it would be roughly the same as Linux (uncertain about BSD). It's when you add drivers that it starts to destabilise (much like Linux).
Don't even try. That's twitter you're arguing with, and all he cares about is bashing Microsoft, not about the engineering principles applied within the respective kernels.
I agree that they might possibly be asking about improving the OS, but that seems to be a stretch -- are they really going to patch Windows just so Blender can work better?
That's completely wrong. Microsoft's goal is to get as many developers as possible on Windows including by making it fast and easy (though if you touch the API, it really isn't easy) because developers and third party applications is what keeps people using Windows. An operating system is nothing without decent apps.
The GP post was much more insightful than yours. All you're advocating there is a shift from teaching kids to rely on Office to understand how to do a task to teaching kids to rely on OpenOffice to do a task. There's no benefit to that, while teaching the ways to achieve it in multiple systems could well teach the underlying principles.
Then again, it's one step closer to making Microsoft products illegal, and that's your ultimate goal isn't it?
Learn the RFCs (2821, etc). Use the RFCs against the spammers.
Most botnets are effectively blocked simply by intelligent use of DNS MX records. Make the first MX record go to an IP with a firewall against port 25. Subsequent MX records go to IPs with normal MTA listeners. Actually, most of them aren't any more. All too many of the big botnets now go straight to the secondary MX assuming that the primary is some sort of front end filtering server and the secondary is your company's actual real Edge server for fallback if the third party fails.
Really? I've got an email on the "Contact Us" page of my employer's website as well as being the administrative contact for something in the order of 40 domains (all my employer's as well)
I get virtually no spam (2 since I started here ~2 years ago), and our MailMarshal server says that it filters literally 98% of all mail inbound to us as spam.
Never, EVER, use SORBS! SORBS have been sued at least once for blacklisting a large ISP without good reason, and my personal favourite is that even if you inherit a released IP from a previous spammer, they wont remove the IP from their lists unless... wait for it...
You donate a minimum of $50 to a "recognised" (by them) charity.
They send a reject reply for all mail from a server with a reverse DNS entry not matching Matthew Sullivan's (rejected) draft RFC, and the owner is basically an egotistical tosspot.
Ironic that in a story about spam, you are spamming about an anti-spam solution.
Personally, I avoid any company that uses spam-vertising like yours (and if you think we believe you aren't affiliated with them like you claim in your other post when your only posts are about them, you're mad).
Don't use Gmail then - Postini (brought by Google) is actually quite impressive. Users can log in and browse through the spam and decide if they want to deliver it or not, they can receive an email listing all the spam at the end of the day and asking if they want to deliver any of it (for those pesky false positives), it does Virus filtering, you can control the aggressiveness of the spam filter, reporting is great, it can archive users email (for those companies that need to), and you can whitelist people that actually don't spam you.
Wow, you're right. In another few years, my zero shares in Microsoft will nett me... er, nothing. CRAP DAMMIT!
I don't particularly like Microsoft (or Apple, or the Free Software Foundation) but if there's one thing I dislike more than all of the aforesaid three companies is people who post utter crap, demanding that everyone boycott a company just because they don't like them. (Oh, and doing so with seven accounts to make it look like lots of people agree).
Though that last post of mine looks like it was written at 1AM - I'm not usually that hostile.
No problem there, from what I see there are no valid comments to avoid. They're all "Windows sucks" (redundant, we know that already), "Class action lawsuit?" (it'd have to be intentional for that, and companies don't break service packs intentionally), "This is obviously to sell Vista" (regardless of what you'd like to believe, Vista is actually selling quite well, and doesn't have the miserable uptake you think) and "Just use Linux" (if we wanted to use Linux, we would be. Let me know when it supports every software package I want to use, mmkay? And no, I'm not switching packages)
1: Microsoft probably isn't responsible. Asus is quite capable of making their own decisions, mmkay? And foremost in their mind is "can we subsidise this laptop with 300 trial programs preloaded?"
2: Australia. For obvious reasons, this is not in Europe OR America. This is in Australasia, which is not subject to your laws.
Try what there? Selling a Linux based laptop? I thought they were doing it already? I don't see how you seem to think Microsoft is responsible for this - maybe they are, probably they aren't (after all, Asus can't subsidise the Linux box with Norton Internet Security Trial, Photoshop Elements Trial, Microsoft Office Trial, and so on)
*Stop whining.*... In Auckland, New Zealand I pay $80 a month for 10GB. Once I'm over that 10GB, my speed of supposedly 7.6Mb/s (it's actually closer to 1Mb/s) can be shaped to 128Kb/s or I can pay an extra $10 for 5GB.
Can anyone say the word 'fucked'??!
Oh, forgot... uploads and downloads count towards the total usage. Got to love this country !!!
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For amusement, pick game number -1, or -2 (yes, those are negatives). They'll screw up your stats good and proper.
I uncheck the "Show Ads" box in Gmail. Strangely, the section of UI that usually shows ads looks like a big empty space. You can tell they designed it around the ads.
That's not Windows' fault, that's incompetent administrators adding "Domain Users" to the Administrators group on that server or the "Domain Administrators" group on the domain.
Not relevant. The NT kernel itself rarely ever crashes (if the kernel crashes, is it even capable of displaying the blue screen?!?) so the crash count of it would be roughly the same as Linux (uncertain about BSD). It's when you add drivers that it starts to destabilise (much like Linux).
Can only use it for MS programming? My PHP projects designed and built in Visual Studio disagree with you there.
Don't even try. That's twitter you're arguing with, and all he cares about is bashing Microsoft, not about the engineering principles applied within the respective kernels.
I agree that they might possibly be asking about improving the OS, but that seems to be a stretch -- are they really going to patch Windows just so Blender can work better?
They did for SimCity 2000, why not?That's completely wrong. Microsoft's goal is to get as many developers as possible on Windows including by making it fast and easy (though if you touch the API, it really isn't easy) because developers and third party applications is what keeps people using Windows. An operating system is nothing without decent apps.
The GP post was much more insightful than yours. All you're advocating there is a shift from teaching kids to rely on Office to understand how to do a task to teaching kids to rely on OpenOffice to do a task. There's no benefit to that, while teaching the ways to achieve it in multiple systems could well teach the underlying principles.
Then again, it's one step closer to making Microsoft products illegal, and that's your ultimate goal isn't it?
Meh, it's just Twitter. Kind of funny, AC posts have a higher starting moderation than his actual accounts.
That said, you must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot.
Most botnets are effectively blocked simply by intelligent use of DNS MX records. Make the first MX record go to an IP with a firewall against port 25. Subsequent MX records go to IPs with normal MTA listeners. Actually, most of them aren't any more. All too many of the big botnets now go straight to the secondary MX assuming that the primary is some sort of front end filtering server and the secondary is your company's actual real Edge server for fallback if the third party fails.
Actually, thanks to forwarding (this is what I do) you can even keep Exchange and Outlook if you want.
Really? I've got an email on the "Contact Us" page of my employer's website as well as being the administrative contact for something in the order of 40 domains (all my employer's as well)
I get virtually no spam (2 since I started here ~2 years ago), and our MailMarshal server says that it filters literally 98% of all mail inbound to us as spam.
Never, EVER, use SORBS! SORBS have been sued at least once for blacklisting a large ISP without good reason, and my personal favourite is that even if you inherit a released IP from a previous spammer, they wont remove the IP from their lists unless... wait for it...
You donate a minimum of $50 to a "recognised" (by them) charity.
They send a reject reply for all mail from a server with a reverse DNS entry not matching Matthew Sullivan's (rejected) draft RFC, and the owner is basically an egotistical tosspot.
Or SORBS who demand $50 to get off the list. That's a royal pain in the arse.
Ironic that in a story about spam, you are spamming about an anti-spam solution.
Personally, I avoid any company that uses spam-vertising like yours (and if you think we believe you aren't affiliated with them like you claim in your other post when your only posts are about them, you're mad).
Don't use Gmail then - Postini (brought by Google) is actually quite impressive. Users can log in and browse through the spam and decide if they want to deliver it or not, they can receive an email listing all the spam at the end of the day and asking if they want to deliver any of it (for those pesky false positives), it does Virus filtering, you can control the aggressiveness of the spam filter, reporting is great, it can archive users email (for those companies that need to), and you can whitelist people that actually don't spam you.
Wow, you're right. In another few years, my zero shares in Microsoft will nett me... er, nothing. CRAP DAMMIT!
I don't particularly like Microsoft (or Apple, or the Free Software Foundation) but if there's one thing I dislike more than all of the aforesaid three companies is people who post utter crap, demanding that everyone boycott a company just because they don't like them. (Oh, and doing so with seven accounts to make it look like lots of people agree).
Though that last post of mine looks like it was written at 1AM - I'm not usually that hostile.
I think he's referring to the fact that GGP is called "Ethanol-fueled" when Ethanol as a fuel source is the biggest vapourware in existence.
Of course the joke isn't funny if it needs explaining. Shame on you.
No problem there, from what I see there are no valid comments to avoid. They're all "Windows sucks" (redundant, we know that already), "Class action lawsuit?" (it'd have to be intentional for that, and companies don't break service packs intentionally), "This is obviously to sell Vista" (regardless of what you'd like to believe, Vista is actually selling quite well, and doesn't have the miserable uptake you think) and "Just use Linux" (if we wanted to use Linux, we would be. Let me know when it supports every software package I want to use, mmkay? And no, I'm not switching packages)
Strange, that same file copy in Vista takes me a couple of minutes - maybe it was just fucked on your PC?
Two problems:
1: Microsoft probably isn't responsible. Asus is quite capable of making their own decisions, mmkay? And foremost in their mind is "can we subsidise this laptop with 300 trial programs preloaded?"
2: Australia. For obvious reasons, this is not in Europe OR America. This is in Australasia, which is not subject to your laws.
Try what there? Selling a Linux based laptop? I thought they were doing it already? I don't see how you seem to think Microsoft is responsible for this - maybe they are, probably they aren't (after all, Asus can't subsidise the Linux box with Norton Internet Security Trial, Photoshop Elements Trial, Microsoft Office Trial, and so on)
*Stop whining.* ... In Auckland, New Zealand I pay $80 a month for 10GB. Once I'm over that 10GB, my speed of supposedly 7.6Mb/s (it's actually closer to 1Mb/s) can be shaped to 128Kb/s or I can pay an extra $10 for 5GB.
... uploads and downloads count towards the total usage. Got to love this country !!!
Can anyone say the word 'fucked'??!
Oh, forgot