It's certainly true that there's a ton of spam on usenet recently that *claims* to be from gmail addresses. That doesn't mean it really is from gmail addresses. You can claim any address you want to claim when you post on usenet. My usenet posts claim to be from an email address in the comain lightSPAMandISmatterEVIL.com.
Maybe so, but I'd be surprised if someone could disguise the rest of the header info to point completely at Google when they weren't involved at all.
Usenet is in danger of drying up and blowing away completely, and if google groups helps to keep it above critical mass by providing a web interface, then I think we ought to hail google as the savior of usenet.
They had that when Deja died - but they're in danger of being thought of as the spammers' best friend unless they get their act together. More and more of stuff that I used to go to Usenet for tends to be available with less hassle in standalone web forums.
If the problem is Dell's drivers, does this exist on their Ubuntu boxes?
I doubt it. According to the link the "fix" to the "hardware problem" involves editing a.inf file so that a flag is set to 0 instead of 1.
Companies selling cut-down versions of products at a lower price isn't new and isn't surprising, and it isn't just the computer industry that does it - "value to a customer" (i.e. what someone can charge) doesn't necessarily match manufacturing cost.
For example, if I go to a garage and buy a car, the chances are that the same engine is available in different models with a different engine map (and consequently different power output) for vastly different money.
I'm typing this on a Dell with SigmaTel audio (look - it was cheap, OK?) and have had no problems recording sound* any way I've tried under an old Suse Linux version.
*old LPs, if you're wondering - so you can get that authentic crackle on an MP3 player too.
Historically M-B didn't own the "Daimler" name in all markets - in the UK Daimler was an independent company unrelated to Daimler-Benz, then part of Jaguar, which got bought by Ford, and then sold back before Tata bought Jaguar:
... English is the only across-the-board option for Europe.
Let's assume that he already knows that... If he doesn't know where he's going but knows that it'll be somewhere that speaks a European language, and wants to keep his options open how about:
o French (which shares quite a bit with other Romance languages such as Italian, Spanish and Romanian). It's possibly less alien to an English speaker than Spanish or Portugese, although if South America is on the itinerary one or both of those is a no-brainer.
o German (shares a bit with Danish, Swedish, etc., and a lot of people speak it as the "other non-English foreign language"). If you want an easy option go for Norwegian (Dano-Norwegian) or Dutch.
o Czech (a Slavic language without that bother of the Cyrillic alphabet; shares a fair bit with Russian).
If in the long term you do want to do research somewhere, or in the short term just visit, it makes sense to speak a bit of the language, even if it's just food and beer. I don't think that I'd bother if you're never going to use it though, unless you want to e.g. understand Bergman films in the original Swedish.
I can't speak for the rest of the world, but across Europe in business there's generally a reasonable grasp of English - I've heard of people living and working in some non-English-speaking countries speaking only English. I suspect that the educational world will be the same, only more so - people will often understand English but it's only polite to "have a go" and speak the local language as well (even if it is only food and beer).
Maybe you need to say where you're planning to study or work so that someone can give more specific info? The world's a big place...
The way that I read it, you're right and the linked analysis is "not even wrong".
Did they not read the "no" before "mandatory requirements"? You could be charitable and assume that someone for whom English isn't a first language completely misinterpreted an English draft (the linked docs on http://www.laquadrature.net/files/amendements-compromis_ITRE-IMCO_7juil/ are in English).
The quoted paragraph actually demands that no state can block free trade of kit by imposing an anti-DRM circumvention requirement. Actually it goes further as "specific technical features" only includes this "without limitation".
"Specific technical features" on electronic features have been imposed in the past - e.g. SCART sockets on TVs.
A figure of 350 is quoted for San Francisco (small print "Laptop loss frequencies were collected from a confidential field survey as either a direct weekly estimate or as a range variable as reported by airport officials. Exact loss frequencies were typically not calculated or available for review."; which I read as "we guessed").
That's 100 per week per terminal at SFO (ish). That's around 14 a day or 1 an hour. 40% were of these were at security - about 1 every 2.5 hours.
At airports that broadcast it, I'd guess that you get "can XXX please go back to security and collect their YYY" every 30 minutes or so. YYY is usually "bag"; although I've heard "laptop" (and on at least one occasion "shoes") as well.
So if the "loss incidents" includes people going back to security to collect stuff that they've left there it seems not unreasonable (although maybe a little high). If it's supposed to be some tealeaf legging it out of security the wrong way with someone's laptop I don't believe it - if that happened every 2.5 hours you'd notice it.
In theory, your ISP could offer QoS features... but it practice that never happens with consumer-priced services. For good or ill, I bet that will change (at least at the cheap "home" end of the ISP market). At least one ISP in the UK does this - VOIP etc. sits at the top of the table, so-called "interactive" traffic such as web browsing is next, and P2P scratches around on the floor.
It'd solve your problem, but at the expense of your P2P traffic being slow because everyone else is browsing the web. You pays your money and takes your choice...
Calling "IBM 1401, A User's Manual" "simple computer music" is doing it a bit of a disservice - it's fully orchestrated, while evoking the "written by someone literate" quality that computer manuals had in the 70s and before. Bits of it regularly turn up on John Kelly's programme on RTE - if you haven't heard it, check http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/jk/ for weekly playlists.
Around about the time that the 1401 tapes that Johann Johannsson used were being recorded, Curved Air were using a PDP8 for side 2 of "Phantasmagoria". It's interesting but, er, "less musical".
On the other side of the pond we would regard anyone waving a gun around as very scary and wonder if he was a lunatic Waving around, yes - having one with him, not necessarily. In areas of the UK beyond the twitching curtains of suburbia it's not unusual to see someone shooting pests or having a shot at some clays. It's also not unusual to see someone carrying an (unloaded, broken) gun through a village on the way to or from such an activity.
Having said that, if I saw someone waving anything around (a lettuce leaf?) I'd wonder if he was a lunatic.
Ok, so I just described a 1982 Suzuki, full face helmet and a rain suit, except for the 3-wheel stance. It's pretty close to my Dad's old Morgan, except his was from around 1930, so hardly a "new thing":
o two seats o MPG less than 55 US but replace the engine with one from a modern bike and you'll easily get that. o enclosed (if you count driving around in a tent) o two gears, so half-way to being an automatic o no safety features to speak of
It's your choice to watch adverts - block them in the browser if you don't want to see them.
If you choose not to do that, why shouldn't your ISP charge you for the traffic? They still have the cost of carrying it, and on third-party sites don't get any cash directly from the advertisers.
You're missing the point. People are creating gmail accounts (via a cracked captcha or whatever) and then posting to usenet via google groups.
Some usenet providers try and filter spam, some don't (and some actually advertise that they deliver everything rather than missing any - which would make sense if there was easily configurable spam filtering at the client or ISP level). Thunderbird's (current) spam filtering on usenet is a bit poo, and my ISP (at least) doesn't have a usenet spam filter in place.
For the couple of usenet groups I read, I worked around it by filtering messages with a google groups message ID (using leafnode FWIW, but there are plenty of other ways of doing it).
The problem isn't that spam is making it's way onto Usenet, but that Google's "one userid fits all" approach seem to be making it exceptionally easy for it to do so.
The normal way that you'd set up Windows Mobile email would be as https access to your company's outward facing email server, or via a VPN client from the phone to an outward facing VPN server. Either way, there's still client-to-server encryption, and the "Indian problem" still applies.
What you're doing sounds like a carrier-specific equivalent of RIM's "Blackberry Internet Service" where the device talks to a server at or behind the carrier and that then talks to your server.
...but you could lose something that size within Australia without disturbing anyone (except possibly a few spiders). If you fly from, say, Singapore to the Sydney (about the same distance as Western Europe to the North-East US) half of the journey is just red desert.
From reading the GP's web site, it seems they're not advertising unlimited storage or bandwidth. Maybe the problem is that clients in general do NOT know what to expect?
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It's certainly true that there's a ton of spam on usenet recently that *claims* to be from gmail addresses. That doesn't mean it really is from gmail addresses. You can claim any address you want to claim when you post on usenet. My usenet posts claim to be from an email address in the comain lightSPAMandISmatterEVIL.com.
Maybe so, but I'd be surprised if someone could disguise the rest of the header info to point completely at Google when they weren't involved at all.
Usenet is in danger of drying up and blowing away completely, and if google groups helps to keep it above critical mass by providing a web interface, then I think we ought to hail google as the savior of usenet.
They had that when Deja died - but they're in danger of being thought of as the spammers' best friend unless they get their act together. More and more of stuff that I used to go to Usenet for tends to be available with less hassle in standalone web forums.
If the problem is Dell's drivers, does this exist on their Ubuntu boxes?
I doubt it. According to the link the "fix" to the "hardware problem" involves editing a .inf file so that a flag is set to 0 instead of 1.
Companies selling cut-down versions of products at a lower price isn't new and isn't surprising, and it isn't just the computer industry that does it - "value to a customer" (i.e. what someone can charge) doesn't necessarily match manufacturing cost.
For example, if I go to a garage and buy a car, the chances are that the same engine is available in different models with a different engine map (and consequently different power output) for vastly different money.
I'm typing this on a Dell with SigmaTel audio (look - it was cheap, OK?) and have had no problems recording sound* any way I've tried under an old Suse Linux version.
*old LPs, if you're wondering - so you can get that authentic crackle on an MP3 player too.
Tell your friend to stop publishing SPF records
It's possible that his friend sends emails to people other than him - he may have set up SPF so that his mail DOES get delivered to those people.
For example, Hotmail (which I'm assured that some people still use!) recommends SPF use:
http://postmaster.hotmail.com/Guidelines.aspx
(although to say that mail delivery to Hotmail is a bit unreliable is a bit like saying that Saddam Hussein wasn't a nice bloke)
... or even an IP address for cert.org...
ZA suggest that keeping Zonealarm on high and not (yet) installing the MS patch is the better option:
http://forum.zonealarm.com/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=cfg&message.id=52862
Must be different brands for different markets then - they're M-B in at least some of Europe. Try Googling for "actros":
http://www.mercedes-benz.de/content/germany/mpc/mpc_germany_website/de/home_mpc/trucks/home/products/new_trucks/actros.html
Historically M-B didn't own the "Daimler" name in all markets - in the UK Daimler was an independent company unrelated to Daimler-Benz, then part of Jaguar, which got bought by Ford, and then sold back before Tata bought Jaguar:
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/22/daimler-deals-with-ford-to-get-its-name-back/
Obligatory Wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Motor_Company
... English is the only across-the-board option for Europe.
Let's assume that he already knows that... If he doesn't know where he's going but knows that it'll be somewhere that speaks a European language, and wants to keep his options open how about:
o French (which shares quite a bit with other Romance languages such as Italian, Spanish and Romanian). It's possibly less alien to an English speaker than Spanish or Portugese, although if South America is on the itinerary one or both of those is a no-brainer.
o German (shares a bit with Danish, Swedish, etc., and a lot of people speak it as the "other non-English foreign language"). If you want an easy option go for Norwegian (Dano-Norwegian) or Dutch.
o Czech (a Slavic language without that bother of the Cyrillic alphabet; shares a fair bit with Russian).
If so, go right ahead.
If in the long term you do want to do research somewhere, or in the short term just visit, it makes sense to speak a bit of the language, even if it's just food and beer. I don't think that I'd bother if you're never going to use it though, unless you want to e.g. understand Bergman films in the original Swedish.
I can't speak for the rest of the world, but across Europe in business there's generally a reasonable grasp of English - I've heard of people living and working in some non-English-speaking countries speaking only English. I suspect that the educational world will be the same, only more so - people will often understand English but it's only polite to "have a go" and speak the local language as well (even if it is only food and beer).
Maybe you need to say where you're planning to study or work so that someone can give more specific info? The world's a big place...
The way that I read it, you're right and the linked analysis is "not even wrong".
Did they not read the "no" before "mandatory requirements"? You could be charitable and assume that someone for whom English isn't a first language completely misinterpreted an English draft (the linked docs on http://www.laquadrature.net/files/amendements-compromis_ITRE-IMCO_7juil/ are in English).
The quoted paragraph actually demands that no state can block free trade of kit by imposing an anti-DRM circumvention requirement. Actually it goes further as "specific technical features" only includes this "without limitation".
"Specific technical features" on electronic features have been imposed in the past - e.g. SCART sockets on TVs.
A figure of 350 is quoted for San Francisco (small print "Laptop loss frequencies were collected from a confidential field survey as either a direct weekly estimate or as a range variable as reported by airport officials. Exact loss frequencies were typically not calculated or available for review."; which I read as "we guessed").
That's 100 per week per terminal at SFO (ish). That's around 14 a day or 1 an hour. 40% were of these were at security - about 1 every 2.5 hours.
At airports that broadcast it, I'd guess that you get "can XXX please go back to security and collect their YYY" every 30 minutes or so. YYY is usually "bag"; although I've heard "laptop" (and on at least one occasion "shoes") as well.
So if the "loss incidents" includes people going back to security to collect stuff that they've left there it seems not unreasonable (although maybe a little high). If it's supposed to be some tealeaf legging it out of security the wrong way with someone's laptop I don't believe it - if that happened every 2.5 hours you'd notice it.
without zinc world wide shipping will come to a halt a decade later
Wake me up when we run out of all more reactive elements than iron...
(O level chemistry rules!)
It'd solve your problem, but at the expense of your P2P traffic being slow because everyone else is browsing the web. You pays your money and takes your choice...
Calling "IBM 1401, A User's Manual" "simple computer music" is doing it a bit of a disservice - it's fully orchestrated, while evoking the "written by someone literate" quality that computer manuals had in the 70s and before. Bits of it regularly turn up on John Kelly's programme on RTE - if you haven't heard it, check http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/jk/ for weekly playlists.
Around about the time that the 1401 tapes that Johann Johannsson used were being recorded, Curved Air were using a PDP8 for side 2 of "Phantasmagoria". It's interesting but, er, "less musical".
Having said that, if I saw someone waving anything around (a lettuce leaf?) I'd wonder if he was a lunatic.
At least they'd be able to provide some sporting metaphors in a sport that more than one country plays (e.g. "bowling a googly").
o two seats
o MPG less than 55 US but replace the engine with one from a modern bike and you'll easily get that.
o enclosed (if you count driving around in a tent)
o two gears, so half-way to being an automatic
o no safety features to speak of
It's your choice to watch adverts - block them in the browser if you don't want to see them.
If you choose not to do that, why shouldn't your ISP charge you for the traffic? They still have the cost of carrying it, and on third-party sites don't get any cash directly from the advertisers.
Excellent timing too, what with HP just having bought EDS.
...considering the people behind it also had a hand in Black Books. That'd be the third series of Black Books that wasn't as funny as the other two...Actually, some episodes of Hyperdrive aren't bad, honest (the second series). It'd be a bit of a chore to sit through the others to find them though.
You're missing the point. People are creating gmail accounts (via a cracked captcha or whatever) and then posting to usenet via google groups.
Some usenet providers try and filter spam, some don't (and some actually advertise that they deliver everything rather than missing any - which would make sense if there was easily configurable spam filtering at the client or ISP level). Thunderbird's (current) spam filtering on usenet is a bit poo, and my ISP (at least) doesn't have a usenet spam filter in place.
For the couple of usenet groups I read, I worked around it by filtering messages with a google groups message ID (using leafnode FWIW, but there are plenty of other ways of doing it).
The problem isn't that spam is making it's way onto Usenet, but that Google's "one userid fits all" approach seem to be making it exceptionally easy for it to do so.
The normal way that you'd set up Windows Mobile email would be as https access to your company's outward facing email server, or via a VPN client from the phone to an outward facing VPN server. Either way, there's still client-to-server encryption, and the "Indian problem" still applies.
What you're doing sounds like a carrier-specific equivalent of RIM's "Blackberry Internet Service" where the device talks to a server at or behind the carrier and that then talks to your server.
...but you could lose something that size within Australia without disturbing anyone (except possibly a few spiders). If you fly from, say, Singapore to the Sydney (about the same distance as Western Europe to the North-East US) half of the journey is just red desert.
You don't end up going around in cricles then?
From reading the GP's web site, it seems they're not advertising unlimited storage or bandwidth. Maybe the problem is that clients in general do NOT know what to expect?