A Watt is a Watt, whether it comes from a lightbulb or an electric heater.
Correct, and in the winter, the heat from the 100W incandescent bulb reduced the load on your central heating boiler, which, with the new energy-efficient CFLs installed, now has to work harder. The result being that the energy savings aren't as great as claimed. You might say that is countered by the reduced work of the aircon in the summer, but that doesn't enter the equation in Europe where domestic aircon is almost unheard of.
The technology we should be watching is high-efficiency white LEDs, much more efficient than CFLs.
Apart from another brain-dead UI design, it appears that Vista has some annoying performance issues, which my be one of the reasons Microsoft snapped up Sysinternals.
He tested spamassassin 2.3 - that's ancient! I'd imagine the other tools are similarly obsolete.
We currently use SA 3.1.4 with a well-trained Bayes database and Razor, Pyzor, and DCC.
Throw in a few custom rules and a selection of rules from http://www.rulesemporium.com/ and the results are outstanding.
With the new sa-update feature the core rules are updated between point releases, which came in useful this week dealing with the new image spams which seemed to be designed to avoid detection by spamassassin. Thanks Theo.
And the folk on the spamassassin-users mailing list really rock.
One of the things I've always loved about open source software is the availability of complete new builds every time a product is patched. If you've been a sysadmin in the Windows world you'd appreciate not having to deal with product X plus Service pack plus numerous hotfixes (I'm talking about applications, not just operating systems). Give us complete new builds every time, please.
I expect a lot better from Slashdotters than this "naive user" style bug report. Which operating system? Which patch level, which version of Adobe Reader? Adobe Reader 7.01 and Firefox 1.0.3 on a fully patched Windows XP work flawlessly together for me.
Most of the virus infections I've dealt with on friends' and acquaintances' Windows PCs have occured on boxes running (yes, you've guessed it) Norton Antivirus. I routinely uninstall Norton and replace it with Avast! Personal Edition.
Some antivirus vendors have yet to catch on to the idea that virus patterns need updating on a daily or more frequent basis. So along comes a new Bagle variant, which is yet to be detected by Norton, and the first thing it does is kill Norton's on-access scanner.
When will we see an IE7 with a "Search" button which uses MSN search by default with no alternatives or requires several obscure registry keys to be hacked to use an alternative search engine?
And email-borne viruses forwarded to you via your ISP's SMTP relay. Why the heck can't they virus scan everything passing through? It won't catch everything, but it will stop all those Netsky.P's still flowing into my inbox.
Years ahead of its time, as were its successors the B5500 and B6500/6700/6800 etc. One of the first machines designed with high level languages in mind.
http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/papers/B5000.html
Google will find loads of useful info for those interested.
When the Windows user has file extension hiding turned on (Microsoft's default), the attachment yohavewon.txt.exe appears to them as youhavewon.txt. It doesn't take much for the malware writer to use the standard windows "text file" icon as the application's icon, and the social engineering attack is complete.
I will not believe that Microsoft takes security seriously until they they issue updates for all their operating systems to disable this misfeature permanently.
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More than 10 years ago. I've been using CFLs since the early 90's.
But then, we Brits always were ahead of the yankees in lighting technology.
A Watt is a Watt, whether it comes from a lightbulb or an electric heater.
Correct, and in the winter, the heat from the 100W incandescent bulb reduced the load on your central heating boiler, which, with the new energy-efficient CFLs installed, now has to work harder. The result being that the energy savings aren't as great as claimed. You might say that is countered by the reduced work of the aircon in the summer, but that doesn't enter the equation in Europe where domestic aircon is almost unheard of.
The technology we should be watching is high-efficiency white LEDs, much more efficient than CFLs.
Apart from another brain-dead UI design, it appears that Vista has some annoying performance issues, which my be one of the reasons Microsoft snapped up Sysinternals.
Mark Russinovich's blog http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/ makes interesting reading.
Use SA 3.1.4 and run-sa-update.
Theo van Dinter added a rule to catch these to the core rules on Tuesday.
This paper's a complete waste of time.
He tested spamassassin 2.3 - that's ancient! I'd imagine the other tools are similarly obsolete.
We currently use SA 3.1.4 with a well-trained Bayes database and Razor, Pyzor, and DCC.
Throw in a few custom rules and a selection of rules from http://www.rulesemporium.com/ and the results are outstanding.
With the new sa-update feature the core rules are updated between point releases, which came in useful this week dealing with the new image spams which seemed to be designed to avoid detection by spamassassin. Thanks Theo.
And the folk on the spamassassin-users mailing list really rock.
Sendmail 8.13.6 for RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1 through 5, and RHEL 3 and 4 (and CentOS) is available here:
http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/mail/
Phil
None of the locale-specific stuff should have changed. Works for me.
One of the things I've always loved about open source software is the availability of complete new builds every time a product is patched. If you've been a sysadmin in the Windows world you'd appreciate not having to deal with product X plus Service pack plus numerous hotfixes (I'm talking about applications, not just operating systems). Give us complete new builds every time, please.
I expect a lot better from Slashdotters than this "naive user" style bug report. Which operating system? Which patch level, which version of Adobe Reader? Adobe Reader 7.01 and Firefox 1.0.3 on a fully patched Windows XP work flawlessly together for me.
Good timing or what? Go and grab it from getfirefox.com.
Most of the virus infections I've dealt with on friends' and acquaintances' Windows PCs have occured on boxes running (yes, you've guessed it) Norton Antivirus. I routinely uninstall Norton and replace it with Avast! Personal Edition.
Some antivirus vendors have yet to catch on to the idea that virus patterns need updating on a daily or more frequent basis. So along comes a new Bagle variant, which is yet to be detected by Norton, and the first thing it does is kill Norton's on-access scanner.
It is usually caused by installing over an unpacked .zip build.
You need to delete <install directory>/components/autocomplete.xpt and try again.
The fix is checked in for Firefox 1.0.2
Fixes so far for 1.0.2 are:
"Null defense and an uninitialized variable fix that Coverity's SWAT scanner found" (nsAutoCompleteController.cpp)
and
"Remove autocomplete.xpt as an interim fix for bug 280084"
Usually caused by installing over an unpacked .zip build.
You need to delete <install directory>/components/autocomplete.xpt and try again.
.. how many download Firefox 1.0.1 when it is released next week.
For all those IE users feeling left out in the current phad for phishing, look here.
And get all the patches prior to next week's on first. That way, you'll be adding 13 instead of 45 patches next week.
When will we see an IE7 with a "Search" button which uses MSN search by default with no alternatives or requires several obscure registry keys to be hacked to use an alternative search engine?
Care to elaborate? Just what part of the software stack is missing?
DRM.
Postgres has a big (well, almost) company behind it too, now.
And email-borne viruses forwarded to you via your ISP's SMTP relay. Why the heck can't they virus scan everything passing through? It won't catch everything, but it will stop all those Netsky.P's still flowing into my inbox.
Yes, but that would break "The Sims"!
I've blogged about this here.
Years ahead of its time, as were its successors the B5500 and B6500/6700/6800 etc. One of the first machines designed with high level languages in mind.
http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/papers/B5000.html
Google will find loads of useful info for those interested.
When the Windows user has file extension hiding turned on (Microsoft's default), the attachment yohavewon.txt.exe appears to them as youhavewon.txt. It doesn't take much for the malware writer to use the standard windows "text file" icon as the application's icon, and the social engineering attack is complete.
I will not believe that Microsoft takes security seriously until they they issue updates for all their operating systems to disable this misfeature permanently.
Software update is broken in Thunderbird IIRC.