ya.. but you forget that this guy did fuck all, all day for the entire month!! He prob. spent about 2 hrs a day at most "working", and if he lives in a cool city they he can go hang out with friends, drink all nite and sleep in late while making some money.
You have to go to your job every day, 5 days a week, and if you are in the US then you prob. work 40 hrs a week, with 1 or 2 weeks vacation..
I don't condon spammers, but he was smart enough to find a product, market it and sell it at a profit. Nothing wrong with that, the fact that he shouldn't be hiding his identity or where the email comes from which makes this so wrong.
I would like to know where he gets the dollar values from at the bottom of the article? He starts to toss out how much money an access point will start to make but no real values to back it up.. come one.. you need some sort of proper accounting..
Almost sounds like a get rich scam, look at how much money you can make by buying this device. Just like the gold rush, very few made money on gold, everyone got rich selling shovel's and supplies to the masses..:)
Another cringley article that is partially based on facts, partially on fiction..
Good luck getting thru airport security with that Item.
Leads to body cavity searches on entering the airport. For people who use the item to travel, they can't really do that sort of thing anymore. Freaks people out too much.
I have a list of ISP's which i have banned their Cable/DSL connections from sending to my server, this is because though i might get only 2 or 3 messages a day from each cable/dsl site, they are all spam. The way alot work is to distribute the load across a high number of these so you don't see alot of connections from one IP, but instead it all clusters around an ISP. This doesn't set of anti-spam triggers as we aren't getting flooded from one site.
I think banning outbound port 25 from the ISP level is a good idea. Least they still let you unban, or use their service. Bell Sympatico has done this here in canada, and you know what, I don't get any spam from a sympatico domain. They filters all mail thru their own servers which i'm sure cuts down a good portion of the messages, if someone does start spamming i'm sure they just delete the access or trash all messages. I thought it was a pain in the ass, since I do have my own mailserver at an ISP. All the users would connect to that natively, which was a pain having to run Auth service for this, now I don't worry.. it goes out of Bell. The mail still goes back to our server, and they pick it up fine.. no problems.
If they block port 25 it won't be entirely, it just won't let it leave the local network for the rest of the internet and you must relay your mail thru the ISP mail servers big deal.. just point the relay in your mail server settings properly.. big deal.
You never stated where the event is or how much bandwidth is needed..
Some cases you can have the phone company provision a line to the site (though you generally need a few weeks to make this happen). It is possible that the site already has phone/dsl service (unless it's out in the middle of nowhere).
One of the best options is to see if there is a wireless provider in the area and back haul a connection from them, in some cases there are many free/opensource type communities that run their own wireless core network. Look at settle wireless or the BAWUG (Bay area wireless user group) as they have done point to point backhauls to a park so everyone could surf while they were there... backhaul with some good equipment then use some dlinks or linksys units for the WLAN.. use external antennas on the AP's not the duckies that are standard.. oh and you would be suprised at the distance the signal will travel in an open area with no interferance from other singles.
Make sure AP's and backhaul are on seperate channels too..seen some people doing backhaul with 802.11a equipment (modifed) which is sometimes cheap to buy, and less bleedover signal in the spectrum. Oh.. lastly.. Trees are not your friend! they will kill your signal, don't bother trying to do this in a forest.
I too live in Windsor, but choose to work here (after having permit problems). And I'm glad that I work in Canada.. granted I'm sure I don't get paid as much as I would in the US, but then again i get to work at 8:30 leave at 4:30.. rarely stay late, unless i'm putting in time to have some flex hours, so I can leave early or miss work for something. I have noticed in my area a high number of US workers living in canada, MI plates on cars that are parked outside houses all the time. I'm guessing that if they work downtown Detroit, it's nicer to have a 15 min tunnel commute then a 40min freeway commute.
Generally Canadians are more relaxed about work, I find that in the US they take their job way to seriously, everything is about who you are and how much you make, and making sure you hit that next sales quota..
My girlfriend is american, and here are some of the things I have noticed.. that the differences in poor areas vs wealthy area in the US is huge (the word ghetto comes to mind) where as in canada that divide isn't as large. Roads suck in the US, I would happily pay more gas tax so my car won't be demo'ed after 4 yrs of driving around, also seems to be a high number of people that never fix their cars after they get into an accident (not sure if this is a detroit/chicago thing or all of the US). Food is so much better in canada, the supermarket is cheaper (we aren't taxed on basic food items) and restaurants have better, cheaper food, and better service. For Windsor being so small, it has more and better restaurants then Detroit... actually lots of americans come here to eat. Everything looks nicer, we (as a country) generally try and keep thinks looking good, from streets to parks.. there is less trash.
As for working, all i can say is 2 weeks vacation min. I once applied for a job in the US and they were only offering 1 week vacation (which i guess is the min)... however i want to move to europe where 3 to 4 weeks can be standard.. Work one place long enough and you will get 3 or 4 weeks..
are you on crack? where do you think a good portion of spam comes from?? 419 scams.. i get atleast 3 a day.. i don't recall signing up for a "419 scam list".. so they are basically spammers.
They have to spam.. send out a million emails maybe get one or 2 people to respond. All these people should be shut down
This is like saying that people aren't watching 'Reality' tv shows any more.. there is a threshold of the amount of crap a society can take. And we are just about filled up. Imagine that people don't want to buy Brittany/Christina/Backstreet boys/jessica simpson/98 degrees/100's of other mindless crappy music..
It's not about pirating, it's about people spending their money elsewhere, seeing a movie, going to a local bar, seeing a play, going to a sporting event.... just not wasting it on crappy music that gets too much airplay on the radio for free.
As a Canadian living in a border city, there are things much cheaper in Canada then the US. For Americans that don't know, prescription drugs are cheaper, and food (at the grocery store and at restaruants). It's funny how expensive food is in the US now.. a bag of chips is 2.99 usd, and it's about the same price in Canada but if you were to convert the cost of a US bag of chips it works out to over $4 canadian. Seems that if US people can shop in canada for food.. they would save about 30 to 40%.
My girlfriend would often buy a bunch of stuff over here when she visited cause for $50 canadian she would get the same or more stuff as $50US would buy execpt that would really only work out to about $35usd.. makes up for the tunnel or bridge tolls..:)
I can pretty much figure out what went on here without even reading it.. the DND hires HP to do some work, HP hires some other consultanting companies to do the actual work, that company turns around and hires someone else. that person shows up to do the work, they get the run around and no one knows what they should be doing so they go home, bill the first company for their time, so the billing moves backup the chain. The DND pays HP $160million, no work is actually done.
I have seen this happen first hand, I was contracted on a Bell Canada project, which Bell hired a well know consulting firm, that firm hired out a smaller firm (who I have contacts) who then hired out a bunch of individual contractors. 3 degrees of seperation from the client. We were to install SAP software, at $20/station (you could have done about 20 a day if they had their shit together). We mostly got the run around, no one knew who we were or what we were there for. We did do some work, but averaged less then 10 workstations a day per person, so I said 'screw this' and went home. I still got paid for the work I did do, but I'm wondering what Bell was paying that orginal company. I figured that each 'company' takes at least 50% off the top.. so the company I was working for got $40 or $50 per station, the top company prob. got $100 to $150 perstation..
all works out as a trickle down effect. Some people just don't want to do the actual work.
I love how people have no idea how much certian hardware is used can make comments like this. How can Solaris be dying when they are planning a Solaris10 release? you don't really do that with dying software.
Anyways, it's been out for X86 for atleast 6 yrs that I can think of , it's a bit sketchy and requires very specific hardware (this is not linux kids) but then again it's pretty solid as as system. Secondly on the sparc hardware, it drives much more then just a simple pc.. people that have never seen a real system enviroment don't understand the hardware levels required to drive multiple processors, and terminals and substain throughput to every device. We drive about 100 terminals off of a system with 12 processors and 8Gig of ram, it uses 4 Gig back to the switches to make all this happen. These machines can take a slashdotting, since they can handle students writing bad code with recursive fork()'s... load hit 88 one day.. try doing that shit with a normal PC..
Some people don't understand that the High end stuff is very different then their dinky little linux box you have at home that gets 100 web hits per day. Real machines cost money and they are build like a beast..they still are totally solid and use backplane technologies to attach system boards.. oh and they weigh a shitload.
I can understand how in the beginning of the internet people would be suckeder into all these sorts of spam deal but now.. it's pretty wildly known and like 80% of spam hits the trash without anyone seeing it. The rest, well it's not even opened or looked at.. right into the trash too.
So all these spammers are sending more and more messages, costing more and more, but getting less response from them. Wouldn't they figure that the game is up and just go back to the cesspool they climbed out of ??
I had the idea of doing a mail server auth service, sort of like DNS but you have to pay to register your mail server, 100% spam free network and mail servers registered only receive emails from other who are registered... this would allow anyone who is legit to register cable modem servers and that sort of thing but yet keep spammers out.. soon as one system gets compromised it gets removed from the list, and no other server will talk to it... closed network system..
VB is a script kiddie languange.. just like basic use to be years ago.. i remember writing stuff in basic to mess around with the school computers.. anyways.. long time ago.
Ask these kids about the big 0h notation, or the time complexity of their program and they won't a have a clue.. they are just following some instructions and some other people's code. Afterall 3K seems pretty big footprint for a virus.. I had a friend who use to regularly write 1/2 k viruses.. just cause the code was so clean and optimized.
So.. corporate trainer?? is that the new code word for 'escort' in NYC??
Seriouly.. if they made that much money, how is it that there isn't a billion and one "techschools" teaching people to be "corporate trainers"?? i don't see late nite earn your degree in legal assistant, nurse, GED, A/C Repair, Computer programming... including the 'corporate trainer'. That's how a friend of mine classifies that computer tech work is in the dumper when you see ads for those sorts of schools.. be a computer programmer in 12 week!! ya.. right.
And lastly.. how do I or my SO become a corporate trainer? your GF's firm hiring?? i'll send my girlfriend down there, she will work for $120K.. honest!
No.. it does.. it has a kernal panic, core dumped. message and dropped to single user mode waiting for a prompt cause they are running Sun equipment on it.
As a matter of fact the President of Sun Canada was at our University yesterday telling us this!
now they have to make a "hand" module to send to mars so it can type in the commands they need to reboot the system.
QT is by far more of a pain in the ass the Real. Setting up both system, I never swore so much as when i was implementing QT streaming.. i think the Real server will now stream QT so i don't have to bother with the apple stuff anymore.
Than again this was all done on Freebsd.. not an apple platform.
Solaris 9 on Sparc kicks ass, our server is insanely faster and more responsive then when we ran 8. It also manages the resources much better too. We get about 100 desktops on a 12 processor box and load rarely peaks above 8. Try doing that with a peice of junk IA system. I remember WindowsTS would barely handle 4 desktops on a dual processor box.
only problem is the damn people writing fork() code that peaked the system at 88 before we hand to shut it down, spawning faster then we could kill them off. Oh and all this equipment is 3 yrs old.. works fine, just replaced the monitors on the sunray1's and now they look all spiffy and new.
Ya.. you can see the amplifier sitting on top of the support just before it goes into the antenna.. this is false advertising.. I would have been impressed if it was un-amplified.. seeing how that's changed the record for amp'ed wireless is like 320KM, this isn't even 1/2 the distance.
Just sell unformatted.. then the manufacture charge M$ to include the drivers for the device in the OS after they have implemented.
Most devices (cameras, Windows) realize if the media isn't properly formatted and ask for format it for you.. no big deal.. it's just not preformatted.. who cares.
If RIAA and SOCAN spent the money promoting a positive image and finding talented artist instead of sueing people they would be far better off.
Why do you think people love downloading free music?? it's all about sticking it to the MAN!
People that are downloading that crap wouldn't be buying it, it's sort of like software pirates who have $30 million of stolen software on their system.. the would never buy that software in the first place so it's not a loss, actually most can barely afford to make rent most of the time let alone spend 30 million on software.
First off, before flaming, read this ENTIRE post, not just the subject.
I haven't read the article but there are cases where spam assassin isn't easy to install. I have it installed on multiple machines and I do like it. It does a great job and it's free. For all those people who say "I can have it installed and set up in ten minutes", I don't doubt it, provided that you have a very standard verison of linux with all your core requirements installed and you are using your favorite postix/exim package. After all, I remember the days when i could compile and have a running apache server fully functional in 10mins too.
Now try and install that on some other hardware which isn't linux.. it's alot toughter, trust me.. i had to get it running on Solaris 9 for Sparc. You might say sure it's supported it will get installed in about 12 mins. Good luck, for most people a little x86 linux box is the same as a large enterprise sized server in their mind.. it's not. We have 14 processors, and 8gig's of ram supporting about 100 terminals plus about 30 more users, and these things you can't just shutdown and have it reboot in 2 mins, it takes 20 mins for the system to come up on a clean shutdown, longer if it has to fix any of the mirrored disks or arrays. Oh.. and you can't use CPAN cause it's broken, also you can't even use the base install of PERL on solaris cause it's so bad nothing works, and if you try and replace it with the later version it breaks alot of the base SUN apps, so then you have users freaking out cause stuff won't work. So once you do have another verison of perl installed and managed not to break anything then you can start loading in the CPAN mod.
Since CPAN is busted for some reason, then you have to load each and every required module by hand.. after that you find out that there is no procmail on the system, and you must use the base sendmail (for support reasons) so have to install procmail and filter everything with.forwards, oh and if you want to use bayesian filtering, go and get the berkeley db package too.. Once you do get everything compiled you then try and fire up spam assassin only to find out the sys::syslog module in perl is broken on solaris..but we ignore this anyways.. it's not quite so simple as the Redhat installation where you click on the little box that says "add spam assassin". Took me a good 2 weeks to get it all configured and working with out breaking anything else.
Good luck to anyone who wants to use it on an enterpise sized server.
-b
oh.. and yes 20 000 messages a day do go thru the system..most pc servers are lucky to handle 1000 messages a day.
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ya.. but you forget that this guy did fuck all, all day for the entire month!! He prob. spent about 2 hrs a day at most "working", and if he lives in a cool city they he can go hang out with friends, drink all nite and sleep in late while making some money.
You have to go to your job every day, 5 days a week, and if you are in the US then you prob. work 40 hrs a week, with 1 or 2 weeks vacation..
I don't condon spammers, but he was smart enough to find a product, market it and sell it at a profit. Nothing wrong with that, the fact that he shouldn't be hiding his identity or where the email comes from which makes this so wrong.
I would like to know where he gets the dollar values from at the bottom of the article? He starts to toss out how much money an access point will start to make but no real values to back it up.. come one.. you need some sort of proper accounting..
:)
Almost sounds like a get rich scam, look at how much money you can make by buying this device. Just like the gold rush, very few made money on gold, everyone got rich selling shovel's and supplies to the masses..
Another cringley article that is partially based on facts, partially on fiction..
Good luck getting thru airport security with that Item.
Leads to body cavity searches on entering the airport. For people who use the item to travel, they can't really do that sort of thing anymore. Freaks people out too much.
-b
I have a list of ISP's which i have banned their Cable/DSL connections from sending to my server, this is because though i might get only 2 or 3 messages a day from each cable/dsl site, they are all spam. The way alot work is to distribute the load across a high number of these so you don't see alot of connections from one IP, but instead it all clusters around an ISP. This doesn't set of anti-spam triggers as we aren't getting flooded from one site.
.. just point the relay in your mail server settings properly.. big deal.
I think banning outbound port 25 from the ISP level is a good idea. Least they still let you unban, or use their service. Bell Sympatico has done this here in canada, and you know what, I don't get any spam from a sympatico domain. They filters all mail thru their own servers which i'm sure cuts down a good portion of the messages, if someone does start spamming i'm sure they just delete the access or trash all messages. I thought it was a pain in the ass, since I do have my own mailserver at an ISP. All the users would connect to that natively, which was a pain having to run Auth service for this, now I don't worry.. it goes out of Bell. The mail still goes back to our server, and they pick it up fine.. no problems.
If they block port 25 it won't be entirely, it just won't let it leave the local network for the rest of the internet and you must relay your mail thru the ISP mail servers big deal
In this case he should now counter sue Monsanto for illegal use of his land and get retrobution for tresspassing.
Sort of like the guy who got the insurance company to pay for cigars that 'burned up' as he smoked them, but then they got him on charges of arson.
-b
You never stated where the event is or how much bandwidth is needed..
.. use external antennas on the AP's not the duckies that are standard.. oh and you would be suprised at the distance the signal will travel in an open area with no interferance from other singles.
Some cases you can have the phone company provision a line to the site (though you generally need a few weeks to make this happen). It is possible that the site already has phone/dsl service (unless it's out in the middle of nowhere).
One of the best options is to see if there is a wireless provider in the area and back haul a connection from them, in some cases there are many free/opensource type communities that run their own wireless core network. Look at settle wireless or the BAWUG (Bay area wireless user group) as they have done point to point backhauls to a park so everyone could surf while they were there... backhaul with some good equipment then use some dlinks or linksys units for the WLAN
Make sure AP's and backhaul are on seperate channels too..seen some people doing backhaul with 802.11a equipment (modifed) which is sometimes cheap to buy, and less bleedover signal in the spectrum. Oh.. lastly.. Trees are not your friend! they will kill your signal, don't bother trying to do this in a forest.
-b
I too live in Windsor, but choose to work here (after having permit problems). And I'm glad that I work in Canada.. granted I'm sure I don't get paid as much as I would in the US, but then again i get to work at 8:30 leave at 4:30.. rarely stay late, unless i'm putting in time to have some flex hours, so I can leave early or miss work for something. I have noticed in my area a high number of US workers living in canada, MI plates on cars that are parked outside houses all the time. I'm guessing that if they work downtown Detroit, it's nicer to have a 15 min tunnel commute then a 40min freeway commute.
Generally Canadians are more relaxed about work, I find that in the US they take their job way to seriously, everything is about who you are and how much you make, and making sure you hit that next sales quota..
My girlfriend is american, and here are some of the things I have noticed.. that the differences in poor areas vs wealthy area in the US is huge (the word ghetto comes to mind) where as in canada that divide isn't as large. Roads suck in the US, I would happily pay more gas tax so my car won't be demo'ed after 4 yrs of driving around, also seems to be a high number of people that never fix their cars after they get into an accident (not sure if this is a detroit/chicago thing or all of the US). Food is so much better in canada, the supermarket is cheaper (we aren't taxed on basic food items) and restaurants have better, cheaper food, and better service. For Windsor being so small, it has more and better restaurants then Detroit... actually lots of americans come here to eat. Everything looks nicer, we (as a country) generally try and keep thinks looking good, from streets to parks.. there is less trash.
As for working, all i can say is 2 weeks vacation min. I once applied for a job in the US and they were only offering 1 week vacation (which i guess is the min)... however i want to move to europe where 3 to 4 weeks can be standard.. Work one place long enough and you will get 3 or 4 weeks..
that's about all i can think of right now.
are you on crack? where do you think a good portion of spam comes from?? 419 scams.. i get atleast 3 a day .. i don't recall signing up for a "419 scam list".. so they are basically spammers.
They have to spam.. send out a million emails maybe get one or 2 people to respond. All these people should be shut down
-b
Music produced by RIAA companies just suck.
This is like saying that people aren't watching 'Reality' tv shows any more.. there is a threshold of the amount of crap a society can take. And we are just about filled up. Imagine that people don't want to buy Brittany/Christina/Backstreet boys/jessica simpson/98 degrees/100's of other mindless crappy music..
It's not about pirating, it's about people spending their money elsewhere, seeing a movie, going to a local bar, seeing a play, going to a sporting event.... just not wasting it on crappy music that gets too much airplay on the radio for free.
-b
Ya.. maybe that was true 10years ago.
:)
As a Canadian living in a border city, there are things much cheaper in Canada then the US. For Americans that don't know, prescription drugs are cheaper, and food (at the grocery store and at restaruants). It's funny how expensive food is in the US now.. a bag of chips is 2.99 usd, and it's about the same price in Canada but if you were to convert the cost of a US bag of chips it works out to over $4 canadian. Seems that if US people can shop in canada for food.. they would save about 30 to 40%.
My girlfriend would often buy a bunch of stuff over here when she visited cause for $50 canadian she would get the same or more stuff as $50US would buy execpt that would really only work out to about $35usd.. makes up for the tunnel or bridge tolls..
-b
I can pretty much figure out what went on here without even reading it.. the DND hires HP to do some work, HP hires some other consultanting companies to do the actual work, that company turns around and hires someone else. that person shows up to do the work, they get the run around and no one knows what they should be doing so they go home, bill the first company for their time, so the billing moves backup the chain. The DND pays HP $160million, no work is actually done.
I have seen this happen first hand, I was contracted on a Bell Canada project, which Bell hired a well know consulting firm, that firm hired out a smaller firm (who I have contacts) who then hired out a bunch of individual contractors. 3 degrees of seperation from the client. We were to install SAP software, at $20/station (you could have done about 20 a day if they had their shit together). We mostly got the run around, no one knew who we were or what we were there for. We did do some work, but averaged less then 10 workstations a day per person, so I said 'screw this' and went home. I still got paid for the work I did do, but I'm wondering what Bell was paying that orginal company. I figured that each 'company' takes at least 50% off the top.. so the company I was working for got $40 or $50 per station, the top company prob. got $100 to $150 perstation..
all works out as a trickle down effect. Some people just don't want to do the actual work.
-b
I love how people have no idea how much certian hardware is used can make comments like this. How can Solaris be dying when they are planning a Solaris10 release? you don't really do that with dying software.
... load hit 88 one day.. try doing that shit with a normal PC ..
Anyways, it's been out for X86 for atleast 6 yrs that I can think of , it's a bit sketchy and requires very specific hardware (this is not linux kids) but then again it's pretty solid as as system. Secondly on the sparc hardware, it drives much more then just a simple pc.. people that have never seen a real system enviroment don't understand the hardware levels required to drive multiple processors, and terminals and substain throughput to every device. We drive about 100 terminals off of a system with 12 processors and 8Gig of ram, it uses 4 Gig back to the switches to make all this happen. These machines can take a slashdotting, since they can handle students writing bad code with recursive fork()'s
Some people don't understand that the High end stuff is very different then their dinky little linux box you have at home that gets 100 web hits per day. Real machines cost money and they are build like a beast..they still are totally solid and use backplane technologies to attach system boards.. oh and they weigh a shitload.
-b
It's about time that there are some girl gamers.. we need more of them!
Cause you are all a bunch of ugly mofo's and smell bad.. i want to be sitting next to some cute girls who smell nice and bring snacks.
-b
I can understand how in the beginning of the internet people would be suckeder into all these sorts of spam deal but now.. it's pretty wildly known and like 80% of spam hits the trash without anyone seeing it. The rest, well it's not even opened or looked at .. right into the trash too.
So all these spammers are sending more and more messages, costing more and more, but getting less response from them. Wouldn't they figure that the game is up and just go back to the cesspool they climbed out of ??
I had the idea of doing a mail server auth service, sort of like DNS but you have to pay to register your mail server, 100% spam free network and mail servers registered only receive emails from other who are registered... this would allow anyone who is legit to register cable modem servers and that sort of thing but yet keep spammers out.. soon as one system gets compromised it gets removed from the list, and no other server will talk to it... closed network system..
who wants to fund this project??
-b
VB is a script kiddie languange.. just like basic use to be years ago.. i remember writing stuff in basic to mess around with the school computers.. anyways.. long time ago.
Ask these kids about the big 0h notation, or the time complexity of their program and they won't a have a clue.. they are just following some instructions and some other people's code. Afterall 3K seems pretty big footprint for a virus.. I had a friend who use to regularly write 1/2 k viruses.. just cause the code was so clean and optimized.
So .. corporate trainer?? is that the new code word for 'escort' in NYC??
.. how do I or my SO become a corporate trainer? your GF's firm hiring?? i'll send my girlfriend down there, she will work for $120K.. honest!
Seriouly.. if they made that much money, how is it that there isn't a billion and one "techschools" teaching people to be "corporate trainers"?? i don't see late nite earn your degree in legal assistant, nurse, GED, A/C Repair, Computer programming... including the 'corporate trainer'. That's how a friend of mine classifies that computer tech work is in the dumper when you see ads for those sorts of schools.. be a computer programmer in 12 week!! ya.. right.
And lastly
-b
No .. it does.. it has a kernal panic, core dumped. message and dropped to single user mode waiting for a prompt cause they are running Sun equipment on it.
As a matter of fact the President of Sun Canada was at our University yesterday telling us this!
now they have to make a "hand" module to send to mars so it can type in the commands they need to reboot the system.
QT is by far more of a pain in the ass the Real. Setting up both system, I never swore so much as when i was implementing QT streaming.. i think the Real server will now stream QT so i don't have to bother with the apple stuff anymore.
Than again this was all done on Freebsd.. not an apple platform.
I was wondering the same thing.. why they put such a fisheye lens on the thing??
maybe that's what the JPL nerds need to see, and they they actually get to see a proper image out the coke bottle glasses they wear! ahha.
Should have one normal lens, so everyone else can see something properly.
Solaris 9 on Sparc kicks ass, our server is insanely faster and more responsive then when we ran 8. It also manages the resources much better too. We get about 100 desktops on a 12 processor box and load rarely peaks above 8. Try doing that with a peice of junk IA system. I remember WindowsTS would barely handle 4 desktops on a dual processor box.
only problem is the damn people writing fork() code that peaked the system at 88 before we hand to shut it down, spawning faster then we could kill them off. Oh and all this equipment is 3 yrs old.. works fine, just replaced the monitors on the sunray1's and now they look all spiffy and new.
-b
Ya.. you can see the amplifier sitting on top of the support just before it goes into the antenna.. this is false advertising.. I would have been impressed if it was un-amplified.. seeing how that's changed the record for amp'ed wireless is like 320KM, this isn't even 1/2 the distance.
bogus.
Just sell unformatted.. then the manufacture charge M$ to include the drivers for the device in the OS after they have implemented.
.. who cares.
Most devices (cameras, Windows) realize if the media isn't properly formatted and ask for format it for you.. no big deal.. it's just not preformatted
If RIAA and SOCAN spent the money promoting a positive image and finding talented artist instead of sueing people they would be far better off.
Why do you think people love downloading free music?? it's all about sticking it to the MAN!
People that are downloading that crap wouldn't be buying it, it's sort of like software pirates who have $30 million of stolen software on their system.. the would never buy that software in the first place so it's not a loss, actually most can barely afford to make rent most of the time let alone spend 30 million on software.
one word : stupid.
First off, before flaming, read this ENTIRE post, not just the subject.
.forwards, oh and if you want to use bayesian filtering, go and get the berkeley db package too.. Once you do get everything compiled you then try and fire up spam assassin only to find out the sys::syslog module in perl is broken on solaris..but we ignore this anyways.. it's not quite so simple as the Redhat installation where you click on the little box that says "add spam assassin". Took me a good 2 weeks to get it all configured and working with out breaking anything else.
I haven't read the article but there are cases where spam assassin isn't easy to install. I have it installed on multiple machines and I do like it. It does a great job and it's free. For all those people who say "I can have it installed and set up in ten minutes", I don't doubt it, provided that you have a very standard verison of linux with all your core requirements installed and you are using your favorite postix/exim package. After all, I remember the days when i could compile and have a running apache server fully functional in 10mins too.
Now try and install that on some other hardware which isn't linux.. it's alot toughter, trust me.. i had to get it running on Solaris 9 for Sparc. You might say sure it's supported it will get installed in about 12 mins. Good luck, for most people a little x86 linux box is the same as a large enterprise sized server in their mind.. it's not. We have 14 processors, and 8gig's of ram supporting about 100 terminals plus about 30 more users, and these things you can't just shutdown and have it reboot in 2 mins, it takes 20 mins for the system to come up on a clean shutdown, longer if it has to fix any of the mirrored disks or arrays. Oh.. and you can't use CPAN cause it's broken, also you can't even use the base install of PERL on solaris cause it's so bad nothing works, and if you try and replace it with the later version it breaks alot of the base SUN apps, so then you have users freaking out cause stuff won't work. So once you do have another verison of perl installed and managed not to break anything then you can start loading in the CPAN mod.
Since CPAN is busted for some reason, then you have to load each and every required module by hand.. after that you find out that there is no procmail on the system, and you must use the base sendmail (for support reasons) so have to install procmail and filter everything with
Good luck to anyone who wants to use it on an enterpise sized server.
-b
oh.. and yes 20 000 messages a day do go thru the system..most pc servers are lucky to handle 1000 messages a day.
Bluetooth is dead.
didn't you get the memo??