Just in case anyone's missed it, the Ares I-X is going to attempt again on Wednesday between 8 a.m. EDT and noon EDT.
Let's hope the weather works out better (well, and the missing piece from the top); I waited the whole night for the darn thing and it didn't even happen!:P
I figured I'd try the new web interface out. Entered in our main domain, and well...
I noticed that the one weak link for the company I'm contracting to, that's on my list to fix (one of the reasons I'm here now), namely the domain name stuff...was actually in the MIDDLE of being compromised. They seem to have just kidnapped our corporate domain, and were on their way to our actual product site. Not all our domains are with NSI (thank god), but the fact I lucked out and checked it by fluke is damn scary.
Chances are, Winamp going hog wild on your CPU when you load something is actually the Media Library coping with your directory. You can shut that off and it should fix your problem.
Personally, I used to use WMP 9 until Winamp 5 came out. I installed WMP 10 today, tried it for 5 minutes, and rolled back to WMP 9. Then I opened Winamp 5 again and all was well.:)
It's sure as hell a lot easier to publish SPF records for major carriers, and then maybe getting that added to the DNS system officially...than to try and go through the absolute hell of writing an entire successor to SMTP, getting the RFC done, and then implementing an entirely new mail protocol on millions of hosts.
If you want something to work in the battle against spam, you've got to keep it simple for everyone to implement.
You generally can't believe a thing the guy says. I know for a fact he doesn't have agreements with at least one of the carrier/ISP's he says he does, and that carrier has had problems with him off and on for years through a couple of their larger hosting customers.
Of course, just for saying this, he'll threaten to get his dad (who's a lawyer!) to come after me, except of course that he's a tax lawyer.
Out of spammers, this guy is the lowest of the low.
Those are usually just spams sent out to verify valid email address and filter out bounces, etc so they have a "cleaner" (I use that term in a very loose fashion) list to use for their actual "real" spamming operation.
You don't have to worry about people harvesting your IP address space. Sure, it's a complete pain in the ass to set up, and it increases resources needed (abuse, etc) immensely, it's probably worth it in the long run.
It's not a case of clueless techs in this case. A lot of high-level people (network engineers, systems people, etc) interact directly with colo and bandwidth customers on a regular basis, and the need just hasn't been there.
I really doubt most normal ISP customers would really have a need for IPv6 addresses anyways. What would be the use if there's nothing on the server ends that are really using it?
That's basically the position we've taken for some reason where I work. Sure, we've been toying with grabbing a block and deploying it on some of our core routers across North America, but...there's no real need per se to do a serious deployment. Nobody's been asking for IPv6 either.
Maybe if there was a way to have mandatory conversion, things would move along a lot quicker.
I think the SEC needs to be informed about this...a public company lying to it's "customers" (aka, the Slashdot readers)?
Hmmm. Time to drop them an email, I think!
True, however the "Manhunter" movie was a complete B-flick, with the usual low-budget considerations.
It's been quoted quite a few times in the press the past week or two (especially after the Anthony Hopkins press conference on the release date) that they want to do "Red Dragon" next. Sort of a prequel. That should be quite interesting to see...
Actually, to be honest...I live in Vancouver, and I bought a 4x4 recently, and I've been praying for a ton of rain, and because I bought this pickup truck, I think it's rained 2 hours in the past month.:) Vancouver has a really nice climate, and it's not red, like Mars.
Bah. I don't believe the Domain Name Buyers' Guide one bit. Not only does their information appear out of date, but they seem *way* too biased as well. The Domain Registration system is screwed up enough as it is, we don't need people like that spreading misleading information around.
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I've been getting ripped off!
Just in case anyone's missed it, the Ares I-X is going to attempt again on Wednesday between 8 a.m. EDT and noon EDT.
Let's hope the weather works out better (well, and the missing piece from the top); I waited the whole night for the darn thing and it didn't even happen! :P
It just hit the BBC now:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7770456.stm
Oh, come on. In a time of war, do you really think all these government employees will have time to stand around using their damn blackberries?
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/ story.html?id=8c884bfe-1dd6-40f5-92eb-e99f4d891aa3
I figured I'd try the new web interface out. Entered in our main domain, and well...
I noticed that the one weak link for the company I'm contracting to, that's on my list to fix (one of the reasons I'm here now), namely the domain name stuff...was actually in the MIDDLE of being compromised. They seem to have just kidnapped our corporate domain, and were on their way to our actual product site. Not all our domains are with NSI (thank god), but the fact I lucked out and checked it by fluke is damn scary.
Yes, but the more important question is...
Will they cover you against Windows installations gone awry?
Chances are, Winamp going hog wild on your CPU when you load something is actually the Media Library coping with your directory. You can shut that off and it should fix your problem.
:)
Personally, I used to use WMP 9 until Winamp 5 came out. I installed WMP 10 today, tried it for 5 minutes, and rolled back to WMP 9. Then I opened Winamp 5 again and all was well.
Why, you ask?
It's sure as hell a lot easier to publish SPF records for major carriers, and then maybe getting that added to the DNS system officially...than to try and go through the absolute hell of writing an entire successor to SMTP, getting the RFC done, and then implementing an entirely new mail protocol on millions of hosts.
If you want something to work in the battle against spam, you've got to keep it simple for everyone to implement.
You generally can't believe a thing the guy says. I know for a fact he doesn't have agreements with at least one of the carrier/ISP's he says he does, and that carrier has had problems with him off and on for years through a couple of their larger hosting customers.
Of course, just for saying this, he'll threaten to get his dad (who's a lawyer!) to come after me, except of course that he's a tax lawyer.
Out of spammers, this guy is the lowest of the low.
Those are usually just spams sent out to verify valid email address and filter out bounces, etc so they have a "cleaner" (I use that term in a very loose fashion) list to use for their actual "real" spamming operation.
You don't have to worry about people harvesting your IP address space. Sure, it's a complete pain in the ass to set up, and it increases resources needed (abuse, etc) immensely, it's probably worth it in the long run.
You can control how many queries/day, etc.
Suuuure. I'd like to see you call him that to his face!
It's not a case of clueless techs in this case. A lot of high-level people (network engineers, systems people, etc) interact directly with colo and bandwidth customers on a regular basis, and the need just hasn't been there.
I really doubt most normal ISP customers would really have a need for IPv6 addresses anyways. What would be the use if there's nothing on the server ends that are really using it?
"Nobody else is, so why should we?"
That's basically the position we've taken for some reason where I work. Sure, we've been toying with grabbing a block and deploying it on some of our core routers across North America, but...there's no real need per se to do a serious deployment. Nobody's been asking for IPv6 either.
Maybe if there was a way to have mandatory conversion, things would move along a lot quicker.
I think the SEC needs to be informed about this...a public company lying to it's "customers" (aka, the Slashdot readers)? Hmmm. Time to drop them an email, I think!
True, however the "Manhunter" movie was a complete B-flick, with the usual low-budget considerations. It's been quoted quite a few times in the press the past week or two (especially after the Anthony Hopkins press conference on the release date) that they want to do "Red Dragon" next. Sort of a prequel. That should be quite interesting to see...
Actually, to be honest...I live in Vancouver, and I bought a 4x4 recently, and I've been praying for a ton of rain, and because I bought this pickup truck, I think it's rained 2 hours in the past month. :) Vancouver has a really nice climate, and it's not red, like Mars.
Bah. I don't believe the Domain Name Buyers' Guide one bit. Not only does their information appear out of date, but they seem *way* too biased as well. The Domain Registration system is screwed up enough as it is, we don't need people like that spreading misleading information around.