Yes, a human can look at the standard whois database. A mail server cannot easily do that. If you would RTFA, you would see that it is a DNS RBL that your mail server can query.
Sure, you could write a script to do that, but if someone hits you with a spam run, you're going to get banned from the whois databases pretty damn fast.
as stated above (and commonish knowlege), windows stores local time on the hardware clock, so it would have to revert back to gmt using the current tz offset (which would vary due to dst), instead of just returning gmt (like the *nixes)
my parents verizon line went out one night, but my mom was able to send me an email saying that the phone was out (dsl). I called the repair line, hit 0 a bunch of times (the computer is annoying) and the rep told me that a contractor hit a fiber trunk line with a backhoe, but since it was "above" the exchange office, the dsl signal was still intact.
he's also powering his car with that, so with gas prices ($2.379 last time i filled up, and i fill up about $30 every week) that would be a little less. and as others above have stated, $400k of that was r&d.
as far as an os capable of sending sound the right direction: my old setup had a creative external sound card with an optical connector that i ran to my stereo. i was able to tell windows not to touch this, and then set winamp (before they went retarded) to direct output to the soundblaster. it worked great because i was sick of my instantmessaging dings being played with my music.
i have no fees, free checks, free atm transactions, cash back on card purchases, and rebates of foreign atm fees... the catch? you have to be ex-military or a (former) dependant of someone.
while i see where you are comming from, he was taping a cable in his office building, a cable that was connected legally to the cable company, not tapping off the utility pole.
the supermarket chain in my area installed redbox machines. i have used them a couple of times and find them to be meh. there are no subscription fees (one of my biggest turn offs about netflix (i don't rent enough to make it worth while)), but the selection isn't that large.
not always true. where i work we still run 2k on all of the workstations. when my old laptop crapped out a month ago, they gave me a brand-smelled-like-dell's-factory-new laptop. it had a case badge that said designed for XP, it had a cd key on the bottom, and what did it have for an os? 2k
Polarized plugs are used to connect the most exposed part of an appliance
to the ground wire so that if you are touching a ground (like a pipe,
bathtub, faucet, etc.) and the exposed part of an appliance (the case, the
threaded part of a light bulb socket, etc) you will not get an electrical
shock. Many appliances, such as electrical drills, are now "doubly
insulated" so the probability of any exposed part of the appliance being
connected, by a short or other problem in the appliance, to either wire is
very small. Such devices often use unpolarized plugs where the two prongs
of the plug are identical. On a polarized plug, the ground prong is
larger.
polorized plugs are quasi-grounded. the larger blade ensures that the one conductor (don't ask which one) is connected to neutral. in your electric box, the neutral and ground bus bars are bonded, and the utility also bonds the neutral to ground every.25 mile or so.
the cellphone on plane rule wasn't faa as much as it was fcc. the cell networks were designed so that a hand full of cells would be visable to your phone.
have you ever looked out the window of a plane? i can "see" a bunch of cell towers. it borks the system.
(above text intended to be modded up. flamebait follows)
i'll agree with the ac. we gave my grandmother our old webtv (my parents insisted their C64 was good enough until i bought a Win 3.1 computer at a garage sale in 1998), and after pretty much forcing her to try it, she started to like it. her kids always used email, and my uncle would print out the emails from a week and snail mail them to her.
she has alzheimers(sp) now, but she can still navigate it fairly well. she has a hard time with the handheld remote, but she can still use the keyboard fairly well.
Can anyone think of downsides of remote controlled tanks?
Easy. The communications link gets jammed/hijacked/lost. The baddies go turn the turret around and point it at your base and boom. (kinda like a real life priest from age of empires)
...your various cards that give points at stores, you name it, you're being tracked.
Yes they are tracking me. that means that when i buy skippy peanut butter every time i am in there, and they scan my card, i get coupons for skippy peanut butter.
point being: its like targeted advertising
staying on topic: i use google logged in. i don't care. i don't agree with aol released their data the way they did, because it was still personally identifiable. but i don't mind people inside google using my data to better their search.
i bought the Perl for Dummies a very long time ago, after only knowing BASIC (as in real basic (as in C64 on a tape deck basic)). from that book i tought myself perl. which caried on to php, and when i started taking comp-sci in college, with c. (my theory: any language that ends its line with a ; is fundamentally the same)
the appendix of the book had a very good function refrence, with page numbers for going back to the text for more stuff.
the only dummies book i bought that i didn't like was red-had for dummies. it came with a distro on 2 cds, but it only covered how to do stuff in the gui. no command line stuff at all. but for someone who is a light windows user who was switching over from the dark side, it would have been a good book.
(and its "... for dummies" not "the idoits guide to...". ones yellow, the other orange)
also what about security by obscurity. i doubt the final product would have "SUN" slapped on the side of it, and it would look just like any old shipping container. Look behind most cracker barrel's in the us, and you can usually find one or two of these. (to store all the shit they import from china and then can't sell)
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Yes, a human can look at the standard whois database. A mail server cannot easily do that. If you would RTFA, you would see that it is a DNS RBL that your mail server can query. Sure, you could write a script to do that, but if someone hits you with a spam run, you're going to get banned from the whois databases pretty damn fast.
You can order Road Runner al la carte for $49.95 in my market
fred's at Akademy, but i'll get on his case for you :P
god i wish i had some mod points
as stated above (and commonish knowlege), windows stores local time on the hardware clock, so it would have to revert back to gmt using the current tz offset (which would vary due to dst), instead of just returning gmt (like the *nixes)
my parents verizon line went out one night, but my mom was able to send me an email saying that the phone was out (dsl). I called the repair line, hit 0 a bunch of times (the computer is annoying) and the rep told me that a contractor hit a fiber trunk line with a backhoe, but since it was "above" the exchange office, the dsl signal was still intact.
he's also powering his car with that, so with gas prices ($2.379 last time i filled up, and i fill up about $30 every week) that would be a little less. and as others above have stated, $400k of that was r&d.
i missed the first half of the season... guess i am buying the season pass off itunes (or waiting till christmas...)
as far as an os capable of sending sound the right direction: my old setup had a creative external sound card with an optical connector that i ran to my stereo. i was able to tell windows not to touch this, and then set winamp (before they went retarded) to direct output to the soundblaster. it worked great because i was sick of my instantmessaging dings being played with my music.
i changed the wp keyword search in firefox to be http://www.google.com/search?q=site:en.wikipedia.o rg+%25s. i find mediawiki's search engine kinda clunky
i have no fees, free checks, free atm transactions, cash back on card purchases, and rebates of foreign atm fees... the catch? you have to be ex-military or a (former) dependant of someone.
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And I love my paypal account too
while i see where you are comming from, he was taping a cable in his office building, a cable that was connected legally to the cable company, not tapping off the utility pole.
the supermarket chain in my area installed redbox machines. i have used them a couple of times and find them to be meh. there are no subscription fees (one of my biggest turn offs about netflix (i don't rent enough to make it worth while)), but the selection isn't that large.
not always true. where i work we still run 2k on all of the workstations. when my old laptop crapped out a month ago, they gave me a brand-smelled-like-dell's-factory-new laptop. it had a case badge that said designed for XP, it had a cd key on the bottom, and what did it have for an os? 2k
i doubt anyone will see this because you posted AC, but i'll put this here for historical reasons:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng991 58.htm
i hope you read this.
polorized plugs are quasi-grounded. the larger blade ensures that the one conductor (don't ask which one) is connected to neutral. in your electric box, the neutral and ground bus bars are bonded, and the utility also bonds the neutral to ground every .25 mile or so.
after reading rfc 2549, i belive that anyone could spoof their ip or mac address very easily. trusted networks do not shit on your car
the cellphone on plane rule wasn't faa as much as it was fcc. the cell networks were designed so that a hand full of cells would be visable to your phone.
have you ever looked out the window of a plane? i can "see" a bunch of cell towers. it borks the system.
(above text intended to be modded up. flamebait follows)
who watches myth busters anyways?
what happend to only needing 64kB?
First Niagara in new york. that and a hoorible funds availability policy... (they held a payroll check for 10 days) made me switch.
i'll agree with the ac. we gave my grandmother our old webtv (my parents insisted their C64 was good enough until i bought a Win 3.1 computer at a garage sale in 1998), and after pretty much forcing her to try it, she started to like it. her kids always used email, and my uncle would print out the emails from a week and snail mail them to her.
she has alzheimers(sp) now, but she can still navigate it fairly well. she has a hard time with the handheld remote, but she can still use the keyboard fairly well.
Easy. The communications link gets jammed/hijacked/lost. The baddies go turn the turret around and point it at your base and boom. (kinda like a real life priest from age of empires)
Yes they are tracking me. that means that when i buy skippy peanut butter every time i am in there, and they scan my card, i get coupons for skippy peanut butter.
point being: its like targeted advertising
staying on topic: i use google logged in. i don't care. i don't agree with aol released their data the way they did, because it was still personally identifiable. but i don't mind people inside google using my data to better their search.
yes, i think i am a google fanboy.
i bought the Perl for Dummies a very long time ago, after only knowing BASIC (as in real basic (as in C64 on a tape deck basic)). from that book i tought myself perl. which caried on to php, and when i started taking comp-sci in college, with c. (my theory: any language that ends its line with a ; is fundamentally the same)
...". ones yellow, the other orange)
the appendix of the book had a very good function refrence, with page numbers for going back to the text for more stuff.
the only dummies book i bought that i didn't like was red-had for dummies. it came with a distro on 2 cds, but it only covered how to do stuff in the gui. no command line stuff at all. but for someone who is a light windows user who was switching over from the dark side, it would have been a good book.
(and its "... for dummies" not "the idoits guide to
also what about security by obscurity. i doubt the final product would have "SUN" slapped on the side of it, and it would look just like any old shipping container. Look behind most cracker barrel's in the us, and you can usually find one or two of these. (to store all the shit they import from china and then can't sell)