As an e-mail admin, I would definitely advise someone against using e-mail for any type of communication that involves either "time" or "critical". There are just too many things that can go wrong. Mail queues fill up because of DNS failures, domain names expire, disks fill up... These are just a few of the "normal" bad things that can happen with e-mail systems. Private instant messaging, IMHO, is much better for "time-critical" communication. Of course, it depends on what type of data you are sending and what the transmission medium is. I heard a rumor that people once used to use phones and faxes for communicating, But I haven't been able to confirm it:)
Seriously, being a devoted NASCAR fan AND a Systems Engineer, I obviously fall into a small demographic. But as several posters have noted earlier, NASCAR is SO much more than hicks in fast cars doing silly beer commercials. The crew chiefs, mechanics and fabricators that work on these cars are "hackers" in the true sense of the word, much more than most of us will ever be. Team work, dedication, commitment, attention to detail, creativity... I image any of these terms will be familiar to coding teams or engineering teams no matter whether you live in the southeastern US, or southeastern India. F1 and Rally Racing are technically challenging and exciting to watch, but if nothing else, NASCAR racing is just plain fun. Envite some friends over, fire up the grill, open up a cold one, put on that Harvick t-shirt and spend 4 hours watching a Bristol or Richmond night race. If nothing else, maybe it will get your mind off coding for a few hours and help improve your social skills all at the same time:) Then again, maybe I'm just weird. I'm from Kentucky and I'm a "rabid" NHL fan, also:)
I think a distinction needs to be made here between learning and teaching. A student can learn things from a computer just as they can learn things from a TV/VCR or a book (remember those?). However, for the most part, a computer can not teach students. Computers should only be used as a learning tool by teachers. When we try to replace the teaching mechanisms with the learning mechanisms, neither the teachers nor the students will benefit.
I usually don't reply to replies of my reply (whoa) but in this case I couldn't resist. I don't think it matters one bit if antispews.org is being run by the Almighty King of Spam himself. The fact is, the information contained on the atispews.org web page correctly conveys the situation that many admins find themselves in when they get blacklisted by SPEWS just because they have IP space that is in the same Class B as Randbad. It sounds to me like alot of the people posting in favor of SPEWS are just too damn lazy or ignorant to implement a GOOD mail filtering solution like MailScanner and SpamAssassin. Sure, you can almost eliminate spam by blocking 210.0.0.0, 211.0.0.0, 212.0.0.0, 213.0.0.0, 64.0.0.0 and 80.0.0.0, but you also block a large number of legitimate e-mails.
Spews is EVIL. Plain and simple. They block IPs based soley on the fact your upstream provider hosts or has hosted in the past, someone the SPEWS "admins" (and I use that term losely) believe to be spammers. It is impossible to get off their list and if you are a customer of C&W you probably have IP space being blacklisted by them. Blocking large blocks of class Cs, just because someone happens to share IP space with an alleged spammer is the WRONG way to filter spam. Please take a look at http://www.antispews.org for more information before using SPEWS.
I think most people are going to have a hard time swallowing the fact that they somehow are "stealing content" if they don't watch or pay for commecials. I pay almost $50 a month for basic cable and HBO and my basic cable package really isn't very good. Someone mentioned that advertising helps subsidize the cost of newpapers but unlike TV, I don't HAVE to look at the ads in a newspaper to get to the next page. I can see where this may be an issue is large cities or areas where you can pick up several channels via antenna, but if you are going to start telling me that I'M "stealing content", you'd better give me a darn good explanation of what my $50 is paying for.
We need to have some sort of click-thu, shrink wrap (whatever), sort of EULA that prevents people like this from looking at our data. Kind of like the old BBS days when you had to "swear" that you weren't law enforcement or something similar.
Why? Gentoo has been using the XFS patches for a while now and it seems really stable. And I know this is more of a perception thing, but it seems much faster than ext3fs, for me, on the same hardware.
I'm sure that most of the idiots posting here about Prince's lack of grammatical skills didn't read his entire commentary because there is actually a really good point he makes:
"If people do not feel enough guilt 2 prevent them from making digital copies of the latest episode of a popular TV show or hit pop song, it is precisely because the industry giants have succeeded in making these works purely commercial products, with little or no consideration 4 their actual artistic value. It is precisely because these companies have been consistently promoting commercial products at the xpense of artistic works. "
I think (while not elegant in form) this may be one of the most insightful remarks I've heard in a long time about the dangers of artistic commercialization. Teenagers aren't being tought the intrensic value of creativity. They are only being taught that the music they want to listen to and the movies they want to watch cost much more than they are willing or able to pay. Why wouldn't they copy them off P2P networks? Large media companies have turned music and movies into high profit commodities. People no longer feel that they are supporting the artists or actors... They are just filling the pockets of overpaid CEOs who are just going to turn around, steal their retirement and then lay them off! For those truly interested in this travesty, please read the entire article with an open mind. Prince may not be an elegant writer, but his comments appear to be similar to many Slashdot readers ideas on this subject.
I've seen several threads on this story talking about the rights of the Chinese people, the rights of the Chinese government and people's right in general to communicate. But what about the rights of the ISPs that are getting spammed to death by open Chinese relays? Bandwidth costs money. Disk storage costs money. Admins taking time to play "whack an open relay" costs money. Responding to abuse complaints costs money. In our rush to protect the rights of indiviuals, lets not forget this issue isn't just about the rights of the Chinese people. It's also about the cost doing business and protecting the rights of people on this side of the pond.
(The only reply to this comment was some weak-ass attempt at humor so I figured I would reply) I have the same problem. I wonder if this should be an Ask Slashdot? I even tried cutting out the finger in a pair of gloves but that still didn't keep my hands warm.
Actually, I don't know who you are refering to when you say, "no one wants your bias". That sort of bias is EXACTLY the reason I read Slashdot. If I wanted unbiased reporting, I'd read... well, I don't know what I would read but it wouldn't be Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
As an e-mail admin, I would definitely advise someone against using e-mail for any type of communication that involves either "time" or "critical". There are just too many things that can go wrong. Mail queues fill up because of DNS failures, domain names expire, disks fill up... These are just a few of the "normal" bad things that can happen with e-mail systems. :)
Private instant messaging, IMHO, is much better for "time-critical" communication. Of course, it depends on what type of data you are sending and what the transmission medium is.
I heard a rumor that people once used to use phones and faxes for communicating, But I haven't been able to confirm it
Note to self:
Do NOT name kernel image, "Brittany Spears - Oops, I Did It Again.mp3".
Hmm, let's see:
:) :)
Fat, beer drinking, rabid fans.
Might be a NASCAR race...
Might be a Linux convention.
Seriously, being a devoted NASCAR fan AND a Systems Engineer, I obviously fall into a small demographic. But as several posters have noted earlier, NASCAR is SO much more than hicks in fast cars doing silly beer commercials. The crew chiefs, mechanics and fabricators that work on these cars are "hackers" in the true sense of the word, much more than most of us will ever be. Team work, dedication, commitment, attention to detail, creativity... I image any of these terms will be familiar to coding teams or engineering teams no matter whether you live in the southeastern US, or southeastern India. F1 and Rally Racing are technically challenging and exciting to watch, but if nothing else, NASCAR racing is just plain fun. Envite some friends over, fire up the grill, open up a cold one, put on that Harvick t-shirt and spend 4 hours watching a Bristol or Richmond night race. If nothing else, maybe it will get your mind off coding for a few hours and help improve your social skills all at the same time
Then again, maybe I'm just weird. I'm from Kentucky and I'm a "rabid" NHL fan, also
Of course, if you *don't* believe in evolution, this pretty much doesn't explain anything.
I think a distinction needs to be made here between learning and teaching. A student can learn things from a computer just as they can learn things from a TV/VCR or a book (remember those?). However, for the most part, a computer can not teach students. Computers should only be used as a learning tool by teachers. When we try to replace the teaching mechanisms with the learning mechanisms, neither the teachers nor the students will benefit.
I usually don't reply to replies of my reply (whoa) but in this case I couldn't resist. I don't think it matters one bit if antispews.org is being run by the Almighty King of Spam himself. The fact is, the information contained on the atispews.org web page correctly conveys the situation that many admins find themselves in when they get blacklisted by SPEWS just because they have IP space that is in the same Class B as Randbad. It sounds to me like alot of the people posting in favor of SPEWS are just too damn lazy or ignorant to implement a GOOD mail filtering solution like MailScanner and SpamAssassin. Sure, you can almost eliminate spam by blocking 210.0.0.0, 211.0.0.0, 212.0.0.0, 213.0.0.0, 64.0.0.0 and 80.0.0.0, but you also block a large number of legitimate e-mails.
Spews is EVIL. Plain and simple. They block IPs based soley on the fact your upstream provider hosts or has hosted in the past, someone the SPEWS "admins" (and I use that term losely) believe to be spammers. It is impossible to get off their list and if you are a customer of C&W you probably have IP space being blacklisted by them. Blocking large blocks of class Cs, just because someone happens to share IP space with an alleged spammer is the WRONG way to filter spam.
Please take a look at http://www.antispews.org for more information before using SPEWS.
I think most people are going to have a hard time swallowing the fact that they somehow are "stealing content" if they don't watch or pay for commecials. I pay almost $50 a month for basic cable and HBO and my basic cable package really isn't very good. Someone mentioned that advertising helps subsidize the cost of newpapers but unlike TV, I don't HAVE to look at the ads in a newspaper to get to the next page. I can see where this may be an issue is large cities or areas where you can pick up several channels via antenna, but if you are going to start telling me that I'M "stealing content", you'd better give me a darn good explanation of what my $50 is paying for.
Check out: We have been using them for a couple of years and are very pleased.
Hmm... How could they do a 5-year study on an OS that's only been out for 2 years?
Check out Mikro Data
Hehe.
From the above post:
"I'm posing from a Novel site right now."
I just knew all you Novel people were posers
We need to have some sort of click-thu, shrink wrap (whatever), sort of EULA that prevents people like this from looking at our data. Kind of like the old BBS days when you had to "swear" that you weren't law enforcement or something similar.
Why? Gentoo has been using the XFS patches for a while now and it seems really stable. And I know this is more of a perception thing, but it seems much faster than ext3fs, for me, on the same hardware.
"Once down the slippery slope, the only way to stop is to either dig in or hit the bottom."
Or hit the bottom and dig?
I'm sure that most of the idiots posting here about Prince's lack of grammatical skills didn't read his entire commentary because there is actually a really good point he makes:
"If people do not feel enough guilt 2 prevent them from making digital copies of the latest episode of a popular TV show or hit pop song, it is precisely because the industry giants have succeeded in making these works purely commercial products, with little or no consideration 4 their actual artistic value. It is precisely because these companies have been consistently promoting commercial products at the xpense of artistic works. "
I think (while not elegant in form) this may be one of the most insightful remarks I've heard in a long time about the dangers of artistic commercialization. Teenagers aren't being tought the intrensic value of creativity. They are only being taught that the music they want to listen to and the movies they want to watch cost much more than they are willing or able to pay. Why wouldn't they copy them off P2P networks? Large media companies have turned music and movies into high profit commodities. People no longer feel that they are supporting the artists or actors... They are just filling the pockets of overpaid CEOs who are just going to turn around, steal their retirement and then lay them off!
For those truly interested in this travesty, please read the entire article with an open mind. Prince may not be an elegant writer, but his comments appear to be similar to many Slashdot readers ideas on this subject.
Uh, I don't know...
Maybe the $40 a month I send my cable company?
Hmm. You can see the BIOS on reboot using ssh? What are you doing, running ssh in ROM?
I heard a "rumor" a while back that Apple's Mail client would be Exchange compatible in 10.2. Has anyone heard anything else about this?
Hello!!! If it didn't have naked women who needed rescued it would be real life, not Fantasy. Why do you think we read this stuff?
That's OK. I never cared much for Danish. I always liked doughnuts better anyways.
"Oddly enough, I'm still not exactly sure what they were trying to do."
Maybe they weren't either?
I've seen several threads on this story talking about the rights of the Chinese people, the rights of the Chinese government and people's right in general to communicate. But what about the rights of the ISPs that are getting spammed to death by open Chinese relays? Bandwidth costs money. Disk storage costs money. Admins taking time to play "whack an open relay" costs money. Responding to abuse complaints costs money. In our rush to protect the rights of indiviuals, lets not forget this issue isn't just about the rights of the Chinese people. It's also about the cost doing business and protecting the rights of people on this side of the pond.
(The only reply to this comment was some weak-ass attempt at humor so I figured I would reply) I have the same problem. I wonder if this should be an Ask Slashdot? I even tried cutting out the finger in a pair of gloves but that still didn't keep my hands warm.
Actually, I don't know who you are refering to when you say, "no one wants your bias". That sort of bias is EXACTLY the reason I read Slashdot. If I wanted unbiased reporting, I'd read... well, I don't know what I would read but it wouldn't be Slashdot.