The technique you're describing is known as 'collateral spam'.
I'm the Head Geek (ok, CTO) of the company which runs domains such as UK.com, UK.net, US.com, etc. Among our 'portfolio' we have the name NO.com.
Now, admit it, how many times have you typed 'no@no.com' into a reply-to field, or a web-form? Those bounces come to us, and yes, they're hellish to deal with - it's pretty much rendered the whole domain useless for email, never mind one single address, because we have to bounce or filter the 'bad' addresses. It's a Wile E Coyote Acme-branded magnet for spam.
You don't say which locale you're in, but the European Commission made this a criminal act - I was at the consultation with members of the ISP industry, and cited the collateral spam problem as a form of DoS - never mind the identity theft.
If you want to take legal action, this is probably the way forward, but if I were you I'd just let it go - it'll be expensive, and probably greenfield legal territory anyway.
Apologies. Dixons in the UK (at least, their high-street stores) were selling the Multimedia model for 329, complete with CF adaptor and USB2 interface. I was under the impression it was supplied "everywhere". Duh!
But - the flipping thing takes an age to boot up and doesnt remember where you were when you turn on.
If you're running Rockbox it's absolutely fine - it does remember where you were, the context it was in (track/playlist), etc. I seem to also get a hell of a lot better battery life out of it now I'm running Rockbox.
The slow boot up and disk seeking for songs makes it great as a piece of hifi but not a portable device (its too big and bulky).
Ah, you won't find me disagreeing there;)
The ipod is superior than the Archos in a lot of areas. But having said that - the Archos is much cheaper than an ipod. They are both good devices but the Archos is NOT better than an ipod.
It is in a hell of a lot of ways. Chiefly cost. Oh, and the ability to run o/s firmware on it. And the absence of that damn DRM stuff.
Archos have been doing this for a while with their Multimedia 20 product - it's using USB2 rather than Firewire but it's a lovely friendly unit, and also has things like CompactFlash adaptors so you can use it as a backup for your digicam. Plus if you plug it into your Linux box you can mount it as a standard USB storage device.
I've got a standard Jukebox 20, and the wife has the FM radio version, both are really reliable little units and there's even open-source firmware available for it called Rockbox.
Well worth a look, and IMHO superior to the iPod - certainly the ones I've played with anyway.
When these updates get too infrequent we see the flicker and it can be painful to the eyes. When the updates at at about 30 frames/sec we don't see the flicker any more, but people often still get headaches and other eye strains because the flicker is still there regardless of whether we can see it. 30hz is unacceptable, 60hz is better, but 3x or 4x... anything higher is preferable to lessen the flicker. With 60hz expect eye fatigue.
Yup, and it's a hell of a lot easier to see it if you look out of the corner of your eye, too.
When I inevitably get the relatives asking about PC upgrades and stuff at Christmas, and I end up reconfiguring their machines for them, I put the refresh rate up.
However, a low refresh rate is worse if there are flourescent lights in the room - which of course strobe a lot more noticeably than filament bulbs. Perhaps this is contributing to the problem?
Then of course, if you're always staring at a TV, your eyes might become accustomed to it.
I've got a 7650 and thought I'd try out this version of Doom on it.
Well, it's not too bad - certainly playable, although I couldn't get the sound to work. The catch is that it requires so much damn memory to run that you have to shut down *every* application on the phone, and free up as much memory as possible. So while it's installed, you can't even add addresses.
Not worth it for me, but it's a nice gimmick. Shows what these devices are capable of if they had at least a little bit more memory in - 4MB isn't enough, are you listening Nokia?;)
For those interested, I put my Nokia 7650 pics up at http://nokia7650.fotopic.net - you should be able to get an idea of quality from there. It's... not very good;)
We worked out that it took 8 MAN YEARS to write some code.
That's all well and good, but it's been mostly me writing it on 37.5-hour weeks for the past 10 months.
This is a big "duh" in my book.
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In the early 1990's I was involved in a Star Trek club here in England (that'll be Wakefield Starfleet, affiliated with the NSFA). I spent my pocket money, and subsequently my Saturday-job money, on Trek books and memorabilia. It was good back then because we hadn't been overloaded with books, comics, magazines, figurines, playsets, videos, special-edition videos, DVDs, CDs, blah blah blah blah blah. I went to the occasional convention in the UK as funds would allow, and enjoyed watching episodes of Classic and Next Gen.
As time went on I went to University and lost interest around the time of Deep Space Nine, when Berman took over and made it into a 'franchise'. I think I've seen a total of 10 episodes of Voyager, but it didn't really 'inspire' me. Sure, the films give me a bit of a 'buzz' - I've bought them on DVD - but that was about it.
Now, some 10 years later, I'm moving house and find all my old stuff - the uniforms I made, the books, etc. So I decide to eBay the books (a collection of around 100 Trek books, including original 1960's editions) and it goes for £50. That's about $75 in your money. Pathetic, isn't it? I see the huge amount of Trek crap on eBay, and there's lots of people selling it but nobody really buying it.
Now I'm not even bothering with the rest of the stuff like the comics, etc. because the hassle of me shipping them to a buyer outweighs the benefit of the money in my bank account - may as well just stuff them in the attic and wait until someone comes along who might want them.
I can't seem to find any decent conventions or clubs in the UK either - all the clubs which sprang up (anyone remember Ten Forward, or the National Starfleet Alliance?) have long since disappeared.
Perhaps we've all just grown up. Or the constant milking of the 'franchise' left us all with sour tastes in the mouth. Me, I'm married with a kid now and enjoy watching Enterprise with my wife, and still I can't bring myself to throw out the old uniforms. They'll do for a fancy dress party I suppose;)
(fwiw, this is probably flamebait, and will get moderated as such - but it's my 2-worth; disclaimer is i don't normally get involved in distro-wars)
I'm a happy Slackware user. I've been a Slack user for years - and not just out of "being used to it". I used Slackware in my first job, I built mailservers on it in my second job, I used it to run a complete ISP in my third job, and a complete domain registry in my fourth job (incidentally, I'm still on a heck of a salary and really enjoy my work).
I've actually looked at other distributions to make maintainence easier, but:
Debian I found was populated by anal freaks who were real religious fanatics - we had a department full of Debian people and I said "ok, let's do Debian then" and two years later I'm finding it hard to work out just where they put everything [1].
RedHat just had too many problems and decided to SetUID root a load of crap (plus there's the obvious rootkits).
SuSE fell apart at the seams.
So I went back to Slackware.
It's quite funny when someone came along, found a security hole such as the recent OpenSSH hole, and tried to crack a Slack box - it was fairly obvious from the start, because the rootkits failed. Then I built Slack packages for tripwire and stuff.
Pat's got it right, IMHO. It's a good, simple distro with decent ground-up building. And there's a lot of misconception that you have to build stuff on Slack boxes - you don't - you can quite happily build packages.
I now run Slack on my laptop, on the company servers, on my desktop, and loads of other places. It works for me. I'm pleased to see Pat's finally got it together for 8.1 (I've been following the updates for some time).
But one bit of advice: update slackware.com - it's bloody old.
Snogs,
Joel.
[1] Admittedly I haven't got used to it in the same way I got used to Slack, but there's enough people in the company who can get used to Slack. Standardising means getting other people to learn it too.
What we need is balance. In Sweden, we have one word that I have not encountered outside of Sweden. The word is "lagom" and it defines the space between too much and too little. What we need is lagom copyright protection for computer programs.
It took me most of the article to find this, as I was curious as to the meaning;)
This is quite a nice tool which could be used as an example to create "live" management statistics for various applications - certainly doing live plotting of figures against each other. I know I'll try a few new things now I've seen the advantage of using checkboxes;)
Now, enough praise...;)
There seems to be some data missing - most notably the "people" data, which would have been interesting to plot the migration of people to and from the area as opposed to housing availability, jobs availability, etc. The other thing is that the server sometimes seems to return an error for some reason or another, although this may be due to the/. effect - I can't imagine the live plotting of data will have a positive effect on the resources;)
But other than that, a good attempt, and certainly some good ideas there.
This won't just cause problems for whitehouse.gov, but also quite a lot of problems for the very fabric of the Internet - the routers. The traffic generated within colocation facilities for instance is likely to overcome routing kit and deplete memory very very quickly.
There have been quite a lot of posts on NANOG about this already, and depletion of memory on Cisco routers causing them to crash.
Those of you who like pico but want more functionality may like nano, which is a pico clone with lots more functionality (same sort of thing as vim and elvis are to vi).
It's got a nice small footprint, and does things like "Go to line no." and a more intelligent search and replace function.
Does this mean it's already done I Think Therefore I Am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off?
Having had various bits of Sun kit pass by me in recent times, I've taken the opportunity to install Linux on each one and try it out as an alternative to Solaris.
Wind back to August 1998 - I tried originally installed Red Hat on an old Axil (that's a Sun clone, in this case of a SparcStation 20). It was an absolute nightmare as there weren't any easily-obtainable bootable CDs, and we ended up netbooting it. The thing panicked repeatedly, and as for compiling kernels we might as well have compiled using pencil and paper for all the good it did.
Now come to the present day. I use the Slackware SPARC port, which in my view is absolutely excellent.
Here's the rundown on what was good (and bad) from each distribution I tried:
Red Hat: Admittedly not tried it recently, but seemed to suffer from quite a few problems including kernels not compiling. Last tried 2.2.0, I think it was RH6. Install was reasonably trouble-free once we got it netbooting, and installation using the console port was fine.
SuSE: Ruediger will kill me for this, but I had no ends of problems with it. The console port is not supported very well for installs, so you have to connect a monitor up to it - which for most people won't be accessible. That said, it seemed to work fine once installed and screwed down. Installed via CD, taken from SuSE's website.
Debian: Mostly my unfamiliarity with Debian let me down here, but I've got a nameserver box running it quite happily now. It's a SS20 with 32M RAM and it ticks along fine, coping quite adequately with huge zonefiles. Installed via CD taken from a local Debian mirror.
Slackware: A newcomer, but I'm a Slackware whore anyway so I was pretty good with it. Disadvantage is that the ISO just installs the bare essentials, so you have to download the rest of slackware-current and install it later. Big problem in that it didn't detect the basic network card on a SS5, SS10 or SS20 for an NFS install, but seemed to work OK on an Ultra5.
I haven't tried any others, but I'm eagerly awaiting the final Slackware distribution.
Linux on a Sparc copes wonderfully with lots of database transactions and loads of I/O, certainly better than an Intel box will. In my day job we've had really good success running MySQL on a Sparc, but we're now porting to Oracle on Solaris (but only really cos they haven't released it for Sparc Linux!).
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I'm the Head Geek (ok, CTO) of the company which runs domains such as UK.com, UK.net, US.com, etc. Among our 'portfolio' we have the name NO.com.
Now, admit it, how many times have you typed 'no@no.com' into a reply-to field, or a web-form? Those bounces come to us, and yes, they're hellish to deal with - it's pretty much rendered the whole domain useless for email, never mind one single address, because we have to bounce or filter the 'bad' addresses. It's a Wile E Coyote Acme-branded magnet for spam.
You don't say which locale you're in, but the European Commission made this a criminal act - I was at the consultation with members of the ISP industry, and cited the collateral spam problem as a form of DoS - never mind the identity theft.
If you want to take legal action, this is probably the way forward, but if I were you I'd just let it go - it'll be expensive, and probably greenfield legal territory anyway.
(IANAL, blah).
Apologies. Dixons in the UK (at least, their high-street stores) were selling the Multimedia model for 329, complete with CF adaptor and USB2 interface. I was under the impression it was supplied "everywhere". Duh!
No, I don't. IMHO it is.
If you're running Rockbox it's absolutely fine - it does remember where you were, the context it was in (track/playlist), etc. I seem to also get a hell of a lot better battery life out of it now I'm running Rockbox.
Ah, you won't find me disagreeing there
It is in a hell of a lot of ways. Chiefly cost. Oh, and the ability to run o/s firmware on it. And the absence of that damn DRM stuff.
I've got a standard Jukebox 20, and the wife has the FM radio version, both are really reliable little units and there's even open-source firmware available for it called Rockbox.
Well worth a look, and IMHO superior to the iPod - certainly the ones I've played with anyway.
When I inevitably get the relatives asking about PC upgrades and stuff at Christmas, and I end up reconfiguring their machines for them, I put the refresh rate up.
However, a low refresh rate is worse if there are flourescent lights in the room - which of course strobe a lot more noticeably than filament bulbs. Perhaps this is contributing to the problem?
Then of course, if you're always staring at a TV, your eyes might become accustomed to it.
Well, it's not too bad - certainly playable, although I couldn't get the sound to work. The catch is that it requires so much damn memory to run that you have to shut down *every* application on the phone, and free up as much memory as possible. So while it's installed, you can't even add addresses.
Not worth it for me, but it's a nice gimmick. Shows what these devices are capable of if they had at least a little bit more memory in - 4MB isn't enough, are you listening Nokia? ;)
For those interested, I put my Nokia 7650 pics up at http://nokia7650.fotopic.net - you should be able to get an idea of quality from there. It's... not very good ;)
I get better quality from the ov511 camera plugged into my laptop.
I guess my gripe is that no matter what conditions, it looks like someone's smeared vaseline over the lens.
Photos using the Nokia 7650 can be viewed at nokia7650.fotopic.net
I'll try and get round to installing this video stuff and do some messing though. The 7650's not a bad phone, pity Nokia's SDK sucks so much.
it's YOU'RE, not 'your', dammit!
We worked out that it took 8 MAN YEARS to write some code.
That's all well and good, but it's been mostly me writing it on 37.5-hour weeks for the past 10 months.
This is a big "duh" in my book.
As time went on I went to University and lost interest around the time of Deep Space Nine, when Berman took over and made it into a 'franchise'. I think I've seen a total of 10 episodes of Voyager, but it didn't really 'inspire' me. Sure, the films give me a bit of a 'buzz' - I've bought them on DVD - but that was about it.
Now, some 10 years later, I'm moving house and find all my old stuff - the uniforms I made, the books, etc. So I decide to eBay the books (a collection of around 100 Trek books, including original 1960's editions) and it goes for £50. That's about $75 in your money. Pathetic, isn't it? I see the huge amount of Trek crap on eBay, and there's lots of people selling it but nobody really buying it.
Now I'm not even bothering with the rest of the stuff like the comics, etc. because the hassle of me shipping them to a buyer outweighs the benefit of the money in my bank account - may as well just stuff them in the attic and wait until someone comes along who might want them.
I can't seem to find any decent conventions or clubs in the UK either - all the clubs which sprang up (anyone remember Ten Forward, or the National Starfleet Alliance?) have long since disappeared.
Perhaps we've all just grown up. Or the constant milking of the 'franchise' left us all with sour tastes in the mouth. Me, I'm married with a kid now and enjoy watching Enterprise with my wife, and still I can't bring myself to throw out the old uniforms. They'll do for a fancy dress party I suppose ;)
I'm a happy Slackware user. I've been a Slack user for years - and not just out of "being used to it". I used Slackware in my first job, I built mailservers on it in my second job, I used it to run a complete ISP in my third job, and a complete domain registry in my fourth job (incidentally, I'm still on a heck of a salary and really enjoy my work).
I've actually looked at other distributions to make maintainence easier, but:
- Debian I found was populated by anal freaks who were real religious fanatics - we had a department full of Debian people and I said "ok, let's do Debian then" and two years later I'm finding it hard to work out just where they put everything [1].
- RedHat just had too many problems and decided to SetUID root a load of crap (plus there's the obvious rootkits).
- SuSE fell apart at the seams.
So I went back to Slackware.It's quite funny when someone came along, found a security hole such as the recent OpenSSH hole, and tried to crack a Slack box - it was fairly obvious from the start, because the rootkits failed. Then I built Slack packages for tripwire and stuff.
Pat's got it right, IMHO. It's a good, simple distro with decent ground-up building. And there's a lot of misconception that you have to build stuff on Slack boxes - you don't - you can quite happily build packages.
I now run Slack on my laptop, on the company servers, on my desktop, and loads of other places. It works for me. I'm pleased to see Pat's finally got it together for 8.1 (I've been following the updates for some time).
But one bit of advice: update slackware.com - it's bloody old.
Snogs,
Joel.
[1] Admittedly I haven't got used to it in the same way I got used to Slack, but there's enough people in the company who can get used to Slack. Standardising means getting other people to learn it too.
Now, is that a separated-at-birth thing or what?
But at least he's grown the beard back. Most certainly required for Alan Cox-style shenanigans.
The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph in the UK aren't the most reliable rags. I'd really take this with a mountain of salt. Honestly.
The link given appears to return a Not allowed to access this object error - does anyone have an alternative link please?
Now, enough praise...
There seems to be some data missing - most notably the "people" data, which would have been interesting to plot the migration of people to and from the area as opposed to housing availability, jobs availability, etc. The other thing is that the server sometimes seems to return an error for some reason or another, although this may be due to the
But other than that, a good attempt, and certainly some good ideas there.
There have been quite a lot of posts on NANOG about this already, and depletion of memory on Cisco routers causing them to crash.
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It's got a nice small footprint, and does things like "Go to line no." and a more intelligent search and replace function.
And it's open-source ;)
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Most of this is to do with the Local-IR requests which fail (at least at RIPE) because you need three separate peers before they'll even consider it.
Then of course your upstream should be allocating from their PA block anyway. And since most upstreams aren't allocating IPv6 to end users...
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Does this mean it's already done I Think Therefore I Am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off?
Wind back to August 1998 - I tried originally installed Red Hat on an old Axil (that's a Sun clone, in this case of a SparcStation 20). It was an absolute nightmare as there weren't any easily-obtainable bootable CDs, and we ended up netbooting it. The thing panicked repeatedly, and as for compiling kernels we might as well have compiled using pencil and paper for all the good it did.
Now come to the present day. I use the Slackware SPARC port, which in my view is absolutely excellent.
Here's the rundown on what was good (and bad) from each distribution I tried:
- Red Hat: Admittedly not tried it recently, but seemed to suffer from quite a few problems including kernels not compiling. Last tried 2.2.0, I think it was RH6. Install was reasonably trouble-free once we got it netbooting, and installation using the console port was fine.
- SuSE: Ruediger will kill me for this, but I had no ends of problems with it. The console port is not supported very well for installs, so you have to connect a monitor up to it - which for most people won't be accessible. That said, it seemed to work fine once installed and screwed down. Installed via CD, taken from SuSE's website.
- Debian: Mostly my unfamiliarity with Debian let me down here, but I've got a nameserver box running it quite happily now. It's a SS20 with 32M RAM and it ticks along fine, coping quite adequately with huge zonefiles. Installed via CD taken from a local Debian mirror.
- Slackware: A newcomer, but I'm a Slackware whore anyway so I was pretty good with it. Disadvantage is that the ISO just installs the bare essentials, so you have to download the rest of slackware-current and install it later. Big problem in that it didn't detect the basic network card on a SS5, SS10 or SS20 for an NFS install, but seemed to work OK on an Ultra5.
I haven't tried any others, but I'm eagerly awaiting the final Slackware distribution.Linux on a Sparc copes wonderfully with lots of database transactions and loads of I/O, certainly better than an Intel box will. In my day job we've had really good success running MySQL on a Sparc, but we're now porting to Oracle on Solaris (but only really cos they haven't released it for Sparc Linux!).