Hydrogen has a tendency to escape containers. About all you can do is try an limit the flow. Hydrogen is such a small atom, that it can slip through the walls of just about any container.
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They used to support a dozen different distributions of Linux, along with Solaris 8, which was quite nice. I was hoping they would update it to Solaris 9, but it appears they have trimmed the list quite a bit. Does anyone know why they axed the supported list down to almost nothing?
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It did seem like a very high number, but all I have to go on is what the article quoted him as saying. I know that in the last spammer interview that was posted here, the rate was more about.01%.
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Money. According to the article, 1-2 percent of the emails he sends out are responded to. If he makes a 10% commission off of the products that he is promoting, he is making a ton of money off of 100 million emails.
The company I work for does the same thing. We send out over 1 million emails a day, all to addresses that have supposedly opted in. Never mind that we receive complaints every day, the business groups see that sales go up every time we spam, so they keep doing it. We'll have our internet pipes pulled sooner or later, but until that happens, the business people making the decision to spam will keep doing it.
So long as it is economically feasible to spam, it will happen.
I get my concept of a normal user from supporting my sisters with their computers/tvs/vcrs. You would think that they could figure out how to operate them correctly, but they seem to lose all sense and knowledge when they approach anything electronic in nature.
While I do know many younger people have no problems with, and infact embrace technology, it would seem to me like many/most people still haven't a clue how to download music, or copy it onto a cd.
How much of that "loss" was real, and how much was just made up bullshit? I don't think they can actually lose money, as the amount of content that is released every year by RIAA/MPAA is enormous, and there are always people there to snap it up. A normal user doesn't care what they can't do with a cd, as long as it plays in their Walkman/home stereo.
In Intuit's case, they actually saw a loss on the books, and realized it was a Bad Thing. Hollywood hasn't seen any such loss, and so doesn't understand.
Although I haven't had many problems with them, installing Win2k SP3 on a Vmware image causes it to fail to boot. Microsoft has a knowledge base article on it, but in order to receive the patch, you need to *call* them, which is damn expensive.
but inside corporations, it's more like 98% real email, and 2% jokes/spam/pr0n/whatever. Speaking from my experience (I receive upwards of 600 internal emails a day), almost all of it is work related. Email from the Internet isn't all non-spam, but spam is still only 2-4% of the email I receive.
They make you pay a lot for it, and then won't let you watch local games? Not only that, but any time that there is a nationally broadcast game on ESPN, you can't watch any online games.
I used to work for a company that wrote billing software. Our billing app that we wrote had an easy way to get root on the billing box, via a simple exploit. Although it wasn't planned as that, it was discovered shortly after we shipped it, and was unpatched for years.
As a result of this, anyone who knew our software could get in as root to any of the servers running our billing software. I haven't worked for that company in 4 years, and I don't even think they are still around, but anyone running that billing software can be compromised (hopefully no one is still using it, but you never know).
We did have a standard user that we setup in the database as well, so we could perform maintenance, but we told them about it, and coordinated maintenance with them. That could be contrived as a back door as well though, as it did allow remote access by our company.
Descent and Descent II were some of the best games that I can recall playing. They looked great, had superb gameplay, and the multiplayer support was stunning (allowing people to join mid game was something that I longed for in Doom).
Plus, being able to play the game from start to finish coop was awesome. Having someone there to back you up against the nasty bosses was great. You just had to work out beforehand who was going to get what weapons. You'd generally have one person with the gauss/missiles, and the other with pure energy weapons.
When Doom came out, it knocked my socks off. But Descent took it to a new level, and I rarely played Doom once Descent came out.
Plus, Descent gave me an excuse to upgrade my 386 sx/25 w/1 meg to a fancy 486 dx2/66 w/8 megs:D
Seriously, they don't. Some scripting is easy as hell, while some things can be a bitch to implement. I've done scripts that would've been better as actual compiled code, and code that would've been better as a simple tcl script. Unfortunately, management gets what they want. If some manager says that he wants X done with a script, he gets X with a script. Even if it would be easier, better and faster to do it with code. And the same for coding. If one of the users says that he wants a program to do some simple function, my manager makes us write a program to do that function. Even if all it is is a fucking file copy from one server to another.
Actually, I was moving back because it's a lot nicer there than it is in Seattle where I live now.
I lived at So. Mopac and Capital of Texas, so I was probably served by the same cable headend that you are. This was mid-99, so just about 4 years ago. I didn't expect it to be uncapped this whole time, but it's unfortunate that they've capped it so low.
Any idea how DSL service is there? Is it possible to get decently fast SDSL? Or is just ADSL availiable?
Things have obviously changed since I had Roadrunner in Austin. It used to be that you were completely uncapped, and could run whatever you wanted. You could even just plug the cable modem into a switch, and hang boxes right off of it. I know that at a lan party once, we had 6 machines all plugged into a switch, which was then plugged into the cable modem. Yes, it's not secure, but it worked. And we were getting a full 8Mbs up and down, which is just about the limit of a 10Mb interface.
I'm thinking about moving back out there, so what is the current policy that they are using for cable service? And is it capped?
Yeah, we tend to be a very odd country. There are enough people here to make even minorities seem like a lot of people.
Just so you know, it's not that a lot of people here like weak coffee, it's just that they've never tried anything else. When I come into work, and I see 30 people getting coffee out of an automatic machine with *decades* of water corrosion drippping down the front and side, I can't help but wonder if they've tasted anything else.
IMO, Americans just aren't exposed to much outside of their little home/work world. Most of them seem to be pretty provincial, and just don't quite realize that there is a large world out there. Where I live seems to be worse than most, as it seems like Seattle has the opinion that if it didn't happen here, it doesn't matter.
I've noticed that for some time now. The only exception to this rule appears to be the new Honda Civic Hybrid. It looks just like a standard Civic, so perhaps it'll sell well. Of course, it's also far more expensive than a regular Civic, so perhaps not... most people purchase a Civic because of the price, not the features. If they made an Accord version it'd probably sell well (but then again, if they don't want them to sell, that's why they didn't make one).
but it's not going to happen. Like it or not, the RIAA and MPAA both provide a necessary service: entertainment. Although they may not be the best at this, they are by far the largest and most accessible. When you toss in that the techno-literate are a minority in the world, it becomes clear that boycotting the abovementioned corporations is nigh impossible.
Unfortunately, I can't offer any ideas on ways to stop them, short of having them declared a monopoly by various governments around the world. And the odds of that happening are about as slim as the odds of N*Sync or the Backdoor Boys not releasing another hit album.
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Hydrogen has a tendency to escape containers. About all you can do is try an limit the flow. Hydrogen is such a small atom, that it can slip through the walls of just about any container.
From their website:
Ximian Desktop 2 will be available on June 9th. It will support Red Hat 7.3, 8.0 and 9 and SuSE 8.2. Please see our web site http://www.ximian.com/products/desktop for more information.
Other distributions are not supported at this time.
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They used to support a dozen different distributions of Linux, along with Solaris 8, which was quite nice. I was hoping they would update it to Solaris 9, but it appears they have trimmed the list quite a bit. Does anyone know why they axed the supported list down to almost nothing?
It did seem like a very high number, but all I have to go on is what the article quoted him as saying. I know that in the last spammer interview that was posted here, the rate was more about .01%.
Money. According to the article, 1-2 percent of the emails he sends out are responded to. If he makes a 10% commission off of the products that he is promoting, he is making a ton of money off of 100 million emails.
The company I work for does the same thing. We send out over 1 million emails a day, all to addresses that have supposedly opted in. Never mind that we receive complaints every day, the business groups see that sales go up every time we spam, so they keep doing it. We'll have our internet pipes pulled sooner or later, but until that happens, the business people making the decision to spam will keep doing it.
So long as it is economically feasible to spam, it will happen.
I get my concept of a normal user from supporting my sisters with their computers/tvs/vcrs. You would think that they could figure out how to operate them correctly, but they seem to lose all sense and knowledge when they approach anything electronic in nature.
While I do know many younger people have no problems with, and infact embrace technology, it would seem to me like many/most people still haven't a clue how to download music, or copy it onto a cd.
How much of that "loss" was real, and how much was just made up bullshit? I don't think they can actually lose money, as the amount of content that is released every year by RIAA/MPAA is enormous, and there are always people there to snap it up. A normal user doesn't care what they can't do with a cd, as long as it plays in their Walkman/home stereo.
In Intuit's case, they actually saw a loss on the books, and realized it was a Bad Thing. Hollywood hasn't seen any such loss, and so doesn't understand.
But I still do this while waiting for turns to finish in Civ3...
I should've qualified that with the version.. VMware 4.
That's good to know, I assumed that it used the standard support pricing.
Although I haven't had many problems with them, installing Win2k SP3 on a Vmware image causes it to fail to boot. Microsoft has a knowledge base article on it, but in order to receive the patch, you need to *call* them, which is damn expensive.
Well done, this is quite a bit more amusing than the normal hot grits first posts.
but inside corporations, it's more like 98% real email, and 2% jokes/spam/pr0n/whatever. Speaking from my experience (I receive upwards of 600 internal emails a day), almost all of it is work related. Email from the Internet isn't all non-spam, but spam is still only 2-4% of the email I receive.
They make you pay a lot for it, and then won't let you watch local games? Not only that, but any time that there is a nationally broadcast game on ESPN, you can't watch any online games.
How many people do they hope to sign up for this?
I used to work for a company that wrote billing software. Our billing app that we wrote had an easy way to get root on the billing box, via a simple exploit. Although it wasn't planned as that, it was discovered shortly after we shipped it, and was unpatched for years.
As a result of this, anyone who knew our software could get in as root to any of the servers running our billing software. I haven't worked for that company in 4 years, and I don't even think they are still around, but anyone running that billing software can be compromised (hopefully no one is still using it, but you never know).
We did have a standard user that we setup in the database as well, so we could perform maintenance, but we told them about it, and coordinated maintenance with them. That could be contrived as a back door as well though, as it did allow remote access by our company.
There is just something fun about creating dungeons for intrepid adventurers to explore and die in :D
Descent and Descent II were some of the best games that I can recall playing. They looked great, had superb gameplay, and the multiplayer support was stunning (allowing people to join mid game was something that I longed for in Doom).
:D
Plus, being able to play the game from start to finish coop was awesome. Having someone there to back you up against the nasty bosses was great. You just had to work out beforehand who was going to get what weapons. You'd generally have one person with the gauss/missiles, and the other with pure energy weapons.
When Doom came out, it knocked my socks off. But Descent took it to a new level, and I rarely played Doom once Descent came out.
Plus, Descent gave me an excuse to upgrade my 386 sx/25 w/1 meg to a fancy 486 dx2/66 w/8 megs
Seriously, they don't. Some scripting is easy as hell, while some things can be a bitch to implement. I've done scripts that would've been better as actual compiled code, and code that would've been better as a simple tcl script. Unfortunately, management gets what they want. If some manager says that he wants X done with a script, he gets X with a script. Even if it would be easier, better and faster to do it with code. And the same for coding. If one of the users says that he wants a program to do some simple function, my manager makes us write a program to do that function. Even if all it is is a fucking file copy from one server to another.
Actually, I was moving back because it's a lot nicer there than it is in Seattle where I live now.
I lived at So. Mopac and Capital of Texas, so I was probably served by the same cable headend that you are. This was mid-99, so just about 4 years ago. I didn't expect it to be uncapped this whole time, but it's unfortunate that they've capped it so low.
Any idea how DSL service is there? Is it possible to get decently fast SDSL? Or is just ADSL availiable?
Things have obviously changed since I had Roadrunner in Austin. It used to be that you were completely uncapped, and could run whatever you wanted. You could even just plug the cable modem into a switch, and hang boxes right off of it. I know that at a lan party once, we had 6 machines all plugged into a switch, which was then plugged into the cable modem. Yes, it's not secure, but it worked. And we were getting a full 8Mbs up and down, which is just about the limit of a 10Mb interface.
I'm thinking about moving back out there, so what is the current policy that they are using for cable service? And is it capped?
Yeah, we tend to be a very odd country. There are enough people here to make even minorities seem like a lot of people.
Just so you know, it's not that a lot of people here like weak coffee, it's just that they've never tried anything else. When I come into work, and I see 30 people getting coffee out of an automatic machine with *decades* of water corrosion drippping down the front and side, I can't help but wonder if they've tasted anything else.
IMO, Americans just aren't exposed to much outside of their little home/work world. Most of them seem to be pretty provincial, and just don't quite realize that there is a large world out there. Where I live seems to be worse than most, as it seems like Seattle has the opinion that if it didn't happen here, it doesn't matter.
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I have NOT tested this however, as I'm running Solaris, so I can't tell you if it actually works or not.I've noticed that for some time now. The only exception to this rule appears to be the new Honda Civic Hybrid. It looks just like a standard Civic, so perhaps it'll sell well. Of course, it's also far more expensive than a regular Civic, so perhaps not... most people purchase a Civic because of the price, not the features. If they made an Accord version it'd probably sell well (but then again, if they don't want them to sell, that's why they didn't make one).
So much for linux releases of Counter-Strike server, or Mac versions of Diablo/Starcraft/Warcraft.
but it's not going to happen. Like it or not, the RIAA and MPAA both provide a necessary service: entertainment. Although they may not be the best at this, they are by far the largest and most accessible. When you toss in that the techno-literate are a minority in the world, it becomes clear that boycotting the abovementioned corporations is nigh impossible.
Unfortunately, I can't offer any ideas on ways to stop them, short of having them declared a monopoly by various governments around the world. And the odds of that happening are about as slim as the odds of N*Sync or the Backdoor Boys not releasing another hit album.