SpamAssassin reduces my spam by 98%. That's just one example of filters... the point being that the more filters deployed out there (at ISP's, companies, etc), the more spam gets auto-tossed into the bit-bucket, and the less economically viable it is. Simply starve the market, requiring no protocol changes.
--- I'm reminded of the Soviets vs. Germany in WWII. They didn't really fight them on a head on fight to start with, they let the Germans come across the border. Only, rather than give them good land, they burned it, made it useless in the short term. And yet, with all the retreats by the Soviets, the Germans lost. How could this be? Is it possibly that there was another way to fight than in a direct head-on struggle? ---
That's because the Soviets were not prepared and got their ass kicked. Hard. It took some time for commanders to convince Stalin that the attack was even real, and by that time it was too late. So, they traded land for time, practicing the scorched earth policy to deny use, and let winter set in. That may not have necessarily been their preferred plan, but it was the best option left. Millions died simply to buy time.
There's lots of interesting studies on it. Go find one.
Not a direct reply, but this simple statement caught my eye, along with Thurrot's comment about Mail looking more "professional".
A friend and I were trying out Entourage 2004, how well the Exchange integration worked, etc. We both currently use Mail, which works fine via IMAP. I think Entourage and Mail happen to reflect some differences in design ideology. Entourage includes everything.. calendar.. notes.. projects.. mail, with 20 knobs to customize your mail views (which still can't get me the mail view I want). Mail gives me.. mail
Our most notable comments:
him: "I ask for a pen, Microsoft has given me a fat preschool pencil and a handful of crayons."
me: "I just want a sharp #2 pencil."
Apparently the engineering group at Mirapoint (http://www.mirapoint.com) has switched to Powerbooks. 3 out of 7 of in my systems engineering group have Powerbooks, including this one. The others are interested but are hoarding cash.
If we can get ActiveX controls implicated on some Terrorist Watch List, I'd have much much less use for Windows at work. If I can kick my gaming addictions, I could lose Windows completely.
Gotta make up for the lost syndication money. Why watch the reruns on some other channel when you can PPV. That bumps the PPV price up, be cause they aren't willingly gonna give away that syndication revenue stream. I doubt DVD sales is making that much of a dent.
Apple's products aren't bad... but lets face it, they target home and educational use. Not a business person who wants to occasionally work from home. Microsoft does have powerful software, despite being buggy and insecure.
So, I'm a network engineer who does all his work on a Powerbook. Do I qualify as "home" or "educational"?
since you won't be using it much in the summer, the box will probably be shutdown and thus heat is less of a concern.
I'll assume that you build a cabinet to store this in, as many other posters have suggested. There's no shortage of ideas out there with different ways of solving problems with dust. I also recommend you get a dust collector that hangs from the ceiling. $100 retail (or more, if you're a brand snob) or build your own with a surplus fan and some furnace filters, but it will help massively with airborne dust.
There are more expensive ones, but I use the Shop-Vac one suspended between two floor joists in a basement shop. Works like a champ for a 12x15 space.
Pics of computers in woodshops: http://www.woodcentral.com/shots/shot2 54.shtml http://www.woodcentral.com/shots/shot347 .shtml
If there is concern that it will get too cold in the winter while you are not in the shop (because you'll soon buy a heater for when you ARE in the shop), simply install a incandescent bulb or 2 in the cabinet surrounding the computer. It'll put off enough heat to stave off damage. A 100W bulb can easily heat a 6x8 outbuilding enough to keep plants from freezing (an insulated outbuilding, mind you). I've even seen pictures of small homemade wood kilns that used incandescent lamps as a heat source (since you want consistent low heat, not necessarily really really hot).
These ideas also generally assume some sort of desktop design. Laptops have less worries. Put it in a box while you make dust, take it in the house when you're not using it.
If still stuck for ideas, post something to a good woodworkers forum like Woodcentral as well. Someone has likely solved this problem already.
so, a co-worker hosts a few domains on his mail server. After he began getting dictionary spammed, he started monitoring the mail logs... whenever it logged a "username not found" error, a script set a null route for that source IP (and an "at" job some period of time later to remove it). Load dropped tremendously, since it was primarily zombie bots spewing spam.
Both Mac OS X and Windows versions in the same retail box, same CD key works for both.
It would be interesting to see client statistics to see how the host OS breaks out... whether it falls along market lines or has more or less penetration into a particular host market.
Second, because I had relevent experience gained while I was a student. I found that working as a programmer for the campus IT department 15 hours/week and volunteering as a lead sysadmin for a student government / organization webserver to be far more relevent to the job then anything I learned in class.
Not only that, but networking (personal, not packet) is key in tight job markets. Friends that you make there may just call you later when they've moved on to see if you want a new job.
Right out of college, I was doing double duty working on campus (middlin' salary but good bennies) and part time at a local small-shop ISP (this was '94). I hired one of the students that worked for me on campus to help at the ISP. When that ISP collapsed, the lead engineer there moved on to a Baby Bell and hired that student to work with him again, who then referred me. That led to more contacts, more experience... and a new position on the ground floor of a VoIP CLEC from one of those new contacts.
The classic wooden cars, trains, tops, etc. Find them at lots of different places, from large chain craft stores (Michael's, Hobby Lobby maybe) to flea markets, or make it yourself if you're handy. Big on imagination, fairly indestructible, can be used as chew toys for younger siblings.
Well, it's not evil at all. It's technology, which has no inherent moral value. It just is.
But, what I was originally going to point out... I can see this being useful for nursing homes. Tracking patient movement, on-the-spot checking for correct medication, etc. Especially for victims of Alzheimers, who don't know who you are, where they are, and are quite befuddled over just what to do.
Gonna agree with above thread, in that the pick-pack-ship procedures could stand some work, but the phone support is pretty reasonable so far. I ordered a refurbished 3gen iPod. It arrived, worked fine (and still does), but the wired remote that came with it was for the first-gen iPod. Call Apple. Give serial number. Explain issue.
Receive new remote next day.
People make mistakes. The mark of a good company is how they handle them.
Bought my new Al Powerbook refurb as well. It has been perfect so far.
went from an overall 20/75 to 20/15 (was 20/200 in one eye.. they were really lopsided). Mine was done at InView (formerly Emory Vision, associated with Emory Eye Care center which did a good bit of research and trials on the procedures).
No glasses needed at all. I get no halos at night. I do get a headache sometimes from lights at night, but I got that before so no obvious connection.
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SpamAssassin reduces my spam by 98%. That's just one example of filters... the point being that the more filters deployed out there (at ISP's, companies, etc), the more spam gets auto-tossed into the bit-bucket, and the less economically viable it is. Simply starve the market, requiring no protocol changes.
---
I'm reminded of the Soviets vs. Germany in WWII. They didn't really fight them on a head on fight to start with, they let the Germans come across the border. Only, rather than give them good land, they burned it, made it useless in the short term. And yet, with all the retreats by the Soviets, the Germans lost. How could this be? Is it possibly that there was another way to fight than in a direct head-on struggle?
---
That's because the Soviets were not prepared and got their ass kicked. Hard. It took some time for commanders to convince Stalin that the attack was even real, and by that time it was too late. So, they traded land for time, practicing the scorched earth policy to deny use, and let winter set in. That may not have necessarily been their preferred plan, but it was the best option left. Millions died simply to buy time.
There's lots of interesting studies on it. Go find one.
Not a direct reply, but this simple statement caught my eye, along with Thurrot's comment about Mail looking more "professional".
A friend and I were trying out Entourage 2004, how well the Exchange integration worked, etc. We both currently use Mail, which works fine via IMAP. I think Entourage and Mail happen to reflect some differences in design ideology. Entourage includes everything.. calendar.. notes.. projects.. mail, with 20 knobs to customize your mail views (which still can't get me the mail view I want). Mail gives me.. mail
Our most notable comments:
him: "I ask for a pen, Microsoft has given me a fat preschool pencil and a handful of crayons."
me: "I just want a sharp #2 pencil."
Apparently the engineering group at Mirapoint (http://www.mirapoint.com) has switched to Powerbooks. 3 out of 7 of in my systems engineering group have Powerbooks, including this one. The others are interested but are hoarding cash.
If we can get ActiveX controls implicated on some Terrorist Watch List, I'd have much much less use for Windows at work. If I can kick my gaming addictions, I could lose Windows completely.
Gotta make up for the lost syndication money. Why watch the reruns on some other channel when you can PPV. That bumps the PPV price up, be cause they aren't willingly gonna give away that syndication revenue stream. I doubt DVD sales is making that much of a dent.
When I factor in my time pissed away dealing with Microsoft and WIndows itself... my Powerbook doesn't seem so expensive after all.
Doing iTunes sharing from a central Linux box:
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http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
Old article, but it'll be a step in a particular direction should someone be looking for that.
No, it's not a player.. it's just a repository that looks like a shared iTunes to other clients.
So, I'm a network engineer who does all his work on a Powerbook. Do I qualify as "home" or "educational"?
Who says I won't?
So far, so good!
Dell does as well.
Remembered this from a MacWorld product announcement:
http://www.prnchart.com/
available for Windows or Mac
I have no idea if it is in the right ballpark. Just a conduit for a news blurb.
since you won't be using it much in the summer, the box will probably be shutdown and thus heat is less of a concern.
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I'll assume that you build a cabinet to store this in, as many other posters have suggested. There's no shortage of ideas out there with different ways of solving problems with dust. I also recommend you get a dust collector that hangs from the ceiling. $100 retail (or more, if you're a brand snob) or build your own with a surplus fan and some furnace filters, but it will help massively with airborne dust.
Retail Air cleaner:
http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?De
http://www.woodcraft.com/family.asp
Homemade:
http://www.ronan.net/~wo
http://www.woodweb.com/knowl
There are more expensive ones, but I use the Shop-Vac one suspended between two floor joists in a basement shop. Works like a champ for a 12x15 space.
Pics of computers in woodshops:
http://www.woodcentral.com/shots/shot
http://www.woodcentral.com/shots/shot34
If there is concern that it will get too cold in the winter while you are not in the shop (because you'll soon buy a heater for when you ARE in the shop), simply install a incandescent bulb or 2 in the cabinet surrounding the computer. It'll put off enough heat to stave off damage. A 100W bulb can easily heat a 6x8 outbuilding enough to keep plants from freezing (an insulated outbuilding, mind you). I've even seen pictures of small homemade wood kilns that used incandescent lamps as a heat source (since you want consistent low heat, not necessarily really really hot).
These ideas also generally assume some sort of desktop design. Laptops have less worries. Put it in a box while you make dust, take it in the house when you're not using it.
If still stuck for ideas, post something to a good woodworkers forum like Woodcentral as well. Someone has likely solved this problem already.
so, a co-worker hosts a few domains on his mail server. After he began getting dictionary spammed, he started monitoring the mail logs... whenever it logged a "username not found" error, a script set a null route for that source IP (and an "at" job some period of time later to remove it). Load dropped tremendously, since it was primarily zombie bots spewing spam.
Not perfect, but interesting.
Hmm.. so maybe a ad-clicking extension might be useful, to keep them occupied so that they DON'T come up with some new annoying idea.,p>
Both Mac OS X and Windows versions in the same retail box, same CD key works for both.
It would be interesting to see client statistics to see how the host OS breaks out... whether it falls along market lines or has more or less penetration into a particular host market.
Not only that, but networking (personal, not packet) is key in tight job markets. Friends that you make there may just call you later when they've moved on to see if you want a new job.
Right out of college, I was doing double duty working on campus (middlin' salary but good bennies) and part time at a local small-shop ISP (this was '94). I hired one of the students that worked for me on campus to help at the ISP. When that ISP collapsed, the lead engineer there moved on to a Baby Bell and hired that student to work with him again, who then referred me. That led to more contacts, more experience... and a new position on the ground floor of a VoIP CLEC from one of those new contacts.
Funny. I think that about many GUI apps.
The classic wooden cars, trains, tops, etc. Find them at lots of different places, from large chain craft stores (Michael's, Hobby Lobby maybe) to flea markets, or make it yourself if you're handy. Big on imagination, fairly indestructible, can be used as chew toys for younger siblings.
I've seen some limited ones at Michael's (craft store). Some of them specifically designed for crystal growing and such.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.
Well, it's not evil at all. It's technology, which has no inherent moral value. It just is.
But, what I was originally going to point out... I can see this being useful for nursing homes. Tracking patient movement, on-the-spot checking for correct medication, etc. Especially for victims of Alzheimers, who don't know who you are, where they are, and are quite befuddled over just what to do.
so, you collect the data and either
a) subpoena or
b) "black-bag"
the related encryption keys, passphrases, what-have-you.
Securing the middle is pointless unless you've secured the ends as well.
Gonna agree with above thread, in that the pick-pack-ship procedures could stand some work, but the phone support is pretty reasonable so far. I ordered a refurbished 3gen iPod. It arrived, worked fine (and still does), but the wired remote that came with it was for the first-gen iPod. Call Apple. Give serial number. Explain issue.
Receive new remote next day.
People make mistakes. The mark of a good company is how they handle them.
Bought my new Al Powerbook refurb as well. It has been perfect so far.
No glasses needed at all. I get no halos at night. I do get a headache sometimes from lights at night, but I got that before so no obvious connection.
it's not. It's an ldap server. Just hums along, singing it's song.