There seems to have been quite an escalation of spam over the last couple of months, with my mailbox receiving double the amount it used to. I've managed to cut that down to just a handful a day by adding a blanket delete rule on all mails coming from earthlink.com, juno.com, verizon.net, sprint.com, concentric.com, att.net, rr.com, ukscby.com, ukscby.net and any address ending in.ar.
It's a shame that all users of those domains/services are now blocked from sending me legitimate email, but until they get their act together and clamp down on spammers, that's the way it's going to stay.
My junk filter catches 99% of the rest, but at 1/2 a dozen a day, that's easily manageable.
Hopefully the impending US Law will make life harder for them. Ok, it's not the best solution, but it's a step in the right direction, and will make it easier to take similar small steps in the future so that we end up get legislation that really does the business.
And before anyone pipes up stating that you can get rid of spam by legislation alone, sure I acknowledge that. But there is no "one size fits all" solution to this problem, it has to be tackled on many fronts. Both legally and technically! So this is an important arrow to have in the quiver.
What I find myself wishing for the most, is when someone sends me a mail on a new subject (a selectable option on their part) a new and totally unique message-id could be generated and included in the header. This would persist for any replies, forwards, etc from either myself of anyone else on the CC list. My mail client would then allow me to do two things: 1) to thread on this ID, even if the text of the subject changed, and 2) if I no longer wanted to take part in the discussion, to send a special message to the other mail addresses in the discussion, instructing their mail clients to remove me from any more CC's on that ID. Enabling me, if I chose, to opt out of any further discussion on that subject.
I'd find this very powerful, and very useful. And I'm sure other people would come up with new and interesting ways to make this even more functional.
For those who don't want to look it up, 581 kph converts to 361 mph.
I've been on the Channel Tunnel Eurostar train from London to Paris and that tops out at 186mph. That was quite amazing. To think that this thing can hit twice that speed is mind boggling.
... Understand that 802.15.3 is a high data rate Personal Area Network with a range of about 10 meters...... Watch TV in your bathroom, access your audio and video collection from anywhere in the house...
I have the same policy and managed to keep my real email address hidden for about a year. Then one of my 'friends' decided to send me an e-card using my private address. A short time later I started receiving my first spam on that address. Years later, now I get about a dozen a day:-( As is so often the case, it's humans that are the weakest link.
Updates to current versions usually get accused of 'bloatware' when they are slower and consume more resources. However, all reviews I've seen so far indicate that 10.3 runs much faster on the same hardware, so this is unlikely to be the case.
Huh? I use the Microsoft MSN client on OSX and I don't see any ads. Then again, I also have a purchased copy of MS Office v.X installed, so maybe the presence of the latter is having an influence?
In the UK there is something similar called the TPS (Telephone Protection System)
Actually, it's the Telephone Preference Service and it works great. I work from home a lot and was amazed at how many nuisance phone calls I got during the day. It reached a point where I stopped answering the phone and would only call back if it was a genuine number. Registering with the TPS has changed all that. The unsolicited calls have stopped and my phone is my own again. This service is definitely something you will appreciate when you get it.
That's not sensible at all. When people make reference to dates in general discussion, most of the time it's about dates in the present year so only the day and month are referred to. If makes no sense to start a date format with the least used element of information.
Actually, with modern disks this is something you don't have much control over any more. There's a good description of disk organisation here where you can find the following explanation:
Unfortunately, the BIOS has a design limitation, which makes it impossible to specify a track number that is larger than 1024 in the CMOS RAM, which is too little for a large hard disk. To overcome this, the hard disk controller lies about the geometry, and translates the addresses given by the computer into something that fits reality. For example, a hard disk might have 8 heads, 2048 tracks, and 35 sectors per track. Its controller could lie to the computer and claim that it has 16 heads, 1024 tracks, and 35 sectors per track, thus not exceeding the limit on tracks, and translates the address that the computer gives it by halving the head number, and doubling the track number. The mathematics can be more complicated in reality, because the numbers are not as nice as here (but again, the details are not relevant for understanding the principle). This translation distorts the operating system's view of how the disk is organised, thus making it impractical to use the all-data-on-one-cylinder trick to boost performance.
The translation is only a problem for IDE disks. SCSI disks use a sequential sector number (i.e., the controller translates a sequential sector number to a head, cylinder, and sector triplet), and a completely different method for the CPU to talk with the controller, so they are insulated from the problem. Note, however, that the computer might not know the real geometry of an SCSI disk either.
Since Linux often will not know the real geometry of a disk, its filesystems don't even try to keep files within a single cylinder. Instead, it tries to assign sequentially numbered sectors to files, which almost always gives similar performance. The issue is further complicated by on-controller caches, and automatic prefetches done by the controller.
And disk geometry becomes even more of an abstract when you bring intelligent RAID controllers into the picture (like HP's HSG and EVA controllers).
The way to fight spam is to build clever tools, come up with a technical fix. New laws are the last thing we need.
Sorry but you're wrong. No single law is going to fix the problem, and technical solutions on their own won't either. Spammers will always find ways around them. The fix when it eventually comes will be a suite of technical changes combined with a suite of changes to international law. Only in combination will they pack the punch needed to stop this abuse. I welcome this new law and hope that other countries follow their lead asap!
You could have looked up http://www.xe.com/ucc and done the conversion yourself in less time than it took you to complain about it.
Consider it a reminder that you don't live in the center of the universe, and that there are actually people living elsewhere on this spinning rock that are just as entitled to have their currency represented as you are!
- Your sysadmin leaves the company and the new guy screws up and blows the RM server out of the water. The company is down until backups can be found and restored. Assuming there are backups!
- The company net develops a problem. Large chunks of the company are unable to access the RM server and find themselves unable to work.
There only has to be a few public disasters like this and confidence in this technology will collapse. Someone else mentioned that this would be ideal for Law Firms and the like. Well, Law Firms are notoriously crap when it comes to understanding IT, and notoriously stingy an investing money to build disaster tolerant solutions. Putting this technology in their hands is like giving them a loaded gun and asking them to spin the barrel.
Mark Heise, a partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, the primary law firm representing SCO, said that he found it interesting that with all its patents, IBM was arguing for open source. "We believe that any GPL claim by IBM is pre-empted by Federal Copyright law and are very comfortable with our position on that," he said.
It would seem that Mark Heise is talking out of his backside again. This article, a fascinating read, quotes Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia University as saying:
You don't need permission to use copyrighted work - there is no exclusive right to use, unlike in Patent law which involves the rights to 'make, use or sell'.
And just how are they planning to fund all this? Considering the dilapidated state of the russian economy at the moment, you'd think they'd be more concerned with looking after terraferma and getting their house straight back home instead of firing billions of dollars into outer space.
The problem is none of the Unix filesystems do snapshots the right way for a client facing system. They all do a whole filesystem at a time snapshotting, not just change vectors
AdvFS, currently on HP's Tru64 Unix and also (already) ported to the up and coming combined Tru64 + HP-UX offering, called Enterprise Unix, has a snapshot feature called 'cloning'. A cloned filesystem is mountable, and only contains pointers to the blocks of data on the original. Further write operations on the original first copy the data block to be changed to the clone before allowing the block to be replaced. It takes seconds to create a clone of a terrabyte filesytem and then you're back in business. This feature has been around for years!
You shouldn't make statements like that without doing your homework.
So I'm pulling the concept of "tester" out of my ass, eh?
Actually I said you pulled the example of tester "out of the air", not your ass. I wouldn't credit you with creating the concept, that implies intelligence. Besides, I doubt you're that old.
Are you qualified to talk about software development?
Ha, I recognise a hook when I see one. If I have to explain my work history and experience to you, then psychologically I put myself on the defensive, while opening the door for you to try and spin this off into an area where you feel more comfortable doing battle. Fat chance. Think I'll stay on topic, i.e. your shameful, self serving attack on the parent poster. Not that I expect you to give up just yet, I'm quite confident you'll have another go at trying to maneuver me into a defensive posture, if only from a compulsive desire to get the last word in. Go on, give it your best shot, I'm more than a match for you.
Not really.
Ooo, change of tack. Feigning disinterest and the start of playing down the significance of your own actions.
I just have a few minutes to spare from work to comment on a message board.
"just" a few innocent minutes, oh you poor thing. They must be working you to the bone. Someone pass me a tissue!
I accuse you of nothing more than bias....
Oh "nothing more" than that. Golly gosh, I was SO wrong to interpret that as a cheep shot. (NOT)
Have you ever hear of a software tester? They test. They don't code. They shouldn't code. That's the coder's job, as so many testers have pointed out to me over the years.
Ooo, lets just pull something out of the air shall we to cover your ass. *yawn*
Never said they weren't. Again, your bias coming through.
Oooo, spin me round, maybe I'll get dizzy. Using double negatives to try and make a positive, while attempting to shift the focus away from you by suggesting I'm biased, isn't fooling anyone. *yawn*
Terse and "lame ass" comments can be useful sometimes. They often serve to elicit reactions that show the ingrained biases of others. Your reaction was a great example of that.
So now we get to the truth of the matter. Your life is so shallow that the only way you can get noticed is to create a stink in public. Did you know that fastidious self-absorption, childish egocentricity, and inexplicable anger are signs of chronic depression. You should go see a doctor.
The original poster specifically said that the software wouldn't change because it was open source... Go read the original post, mull over it, and get back to me
Close, but no cigar. His very carefully thought out critique of the Open Source development model's inability to code fix usability problems, was specificly about usability problems. NOT that Open Source software would not, could not be changed. You're quoting his words out of context.
And notice that I never said "code" in my reply. That's your addition
Well Duh! You critisized him for not getting off his lazy ass and helping to fix it. Just how is he supposed to fix it without changing the code? By magic?
As a matter of fact, articles like that are very useful feedback. The author has obviously spent some time thinking about the problem, and backed up his view with practical examples to underscore his points. He even went so far as to suggest ways of improving performance, clearly based on knowledge of how other software projects sequence events to give the end user a more snappy experience.
He was certainly a dam site more helpful than your lame ass reply. Though you were probably too busy frothing at the mouth to notice because someone had dared to critisized an Open Source project.
That's not my attitude, son
Well then you should pick your words more carefully in future, instead of sounding off like a wounded Zealot. And I thought old timers like you were supposed to be the sensible mature ones around here.
This should read, "All this can be fixed. But because it's open source, AND I WON'T GET OFF MY LAZY ASS AND HELP, BUT ONLY WANT TO BITCH, it won't be."
Oh wake up and smell the coffee! This stupid attitude that end-users-with-a-view only deserve to have one if they can code too, is sooo old hat. Linux has grown to encompass the world of ORDINARY people now too, or hadn't you noticed? Get with the times for god sake!
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I once read a quote from a multi-millionaire, who's name I can't remember for the life of me. Basicly, he said: "most people are too busy earning a living, to make any real money". And it's true.
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The proposal could also cause workers to work longer hours, since the Labor Department doesn't put any limit on the number of hours per week an employee must work, the group said in a study published on its Web site.
Amazing! This is the direct opposite to the EU, where the employers power to demand you worked more than 40 hours, were stripped several years ago. I remember being asked by a former employer to sign a waver to allow me to work more than 40 hours if necessary. Naturally, guaranteed overtime was part of the deal.
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There seems to have been quite an escalation of spam over the last couple of months, with my mailbox receiving double the amount it used to. I've managed to cut that down to just a handful a day by adding a blanket delete rule on all mails coming from earthlink.com, juno.com, verizon.net, sprint.com, concentric.com, att.net, rr.com, ukscby.com, ukscby.net and any address ending in
It's a shame that all users of those domains/services are now blocked from sending me legitimate email, but until they get their act together and clamp down on spammers, that's the way it's going to stay.
My junk filter catches 99% of the rest, but at 1/2 a dozen a day, that's easily manageable.
Hopefully the impending US Law will make life harder for them. Ok, it's not the best solution, but it's a step in the right direction, and will make it easier to take similar small steps in the future so that we end up get legislation that really does the business.
And before anyone pipes up stating that you can get rid of spam by legislation alone, sure I acknowledge that. But there is no "one size fits all" solution to this problem, it has to be tackled on many fronts. Both legally and technically! So this is an important arrow to have in the quiver.
Macka
What I find myself wishing for the most, is when someone sends me a mail on a new subject (a selectable option on their part) a new and totally unique message-id could be generated and included in the header. This would persist for any replies, forwards, etc from either myself of anyone else on the CC list. My mail client would then allow me to do two things: 1) to thread on this ID, even if the text of the subject changed, and 2) if I no longer wanted to take part in the discussion, to send a special message to the other mail addresses in the discussion, instructing their mail clients to remove me from any more CC's on that ID. Enabling me, if I chose, to opt out of any further discussion on that subject.
I'd find this very powerful, and very useful. And I'm sure other people would come up with new and interesting ways to make this even more functional.
Macka
For those who don't want to look it up, 581 kph converts to 361 mph.
I've been on the Channel Tunnel Eurostar train from London to Paris and that tops out at 186mph. That was quite amazing. To think that this thing can hit twice that speed is mind boggling.
Macka
Mr Cringely must live in a very small house !!
Macka
- Clean Install: renames the old System, and installs a clean new one
How much free space do I need for this?
I have the same policy and managed to keep my real email address hidden for about a year. Then one of my 'friends' decided to send me an e-card using my private address. A short time later I started receiving my first spam on that address. Years later, now I get about a dozen a day
Updates to current versions usually get accused of 'bloatware' when they are slower and consume more resources. However, all reviews I've seen so far indicate that 10.3 runs much faster on the same hardware, so this is unlikely to be the case.
Huh? I use the Microsoft MSN client on OSX and I don't see any ads. Then again, I also have a purchased copy of MS Office v.X installed, so maybe the presence of the latter is having an influence?
Macka
Actually, it's the Telephone Preference Service and it works great. I work from home a lot and was amazed at how many nuisance phone calls I got during the day. It reached a point where I stopped answering the phone and would only call back if it was a genuine number. Registering with the TPS has changed all that. The unsolicited calls have stopped and my phone is my own again. This service is definitely something you will appreciate when you get it.
Macka
That's not sensible at all. When people make reference to dates in general discussion, most of the time it's about dates in the present year so only the day and month are referred to. If makes no sense to start a date format with the least used element of information.
Actually, with modern disks this is something you don't have much control over any more. There's a good description of disk organisation here where you can find the following explanation:
And disk geometry becomes even more of an abstract when you bring intelligent RAID controllers into the picture (like HP's HSG and EVA controllers).
You're not seeing the bigger picture. Please read comment 6920174
and you'll understand a little more.
You could have looked up http://www.xe.com/ucc and done the conversion yourself in less time than it took you to complain about it.
Consider it a reminder that you don't live in the center of the universe, and that there are actually people living elsewhere on this spinning rock that are just as entitled to have their currency represented as you are!
- Your sysadmin leaves the company and the new guy screws up and blows the RM server out of the water. The company is down until backups can be found and restored. Assuming there are backups!
- The company net develops a problem. Large chunks of the company are unable to access the RM server and find themselves unable to work.
There only has to be a few public disasters like this and confidence in this technology will collapse. Someone else mentioned that this would be ideal for Law Firms and the like. Well, Law Firms are notoriously crap when it comes to understanding IT, and notoriously stingy an investing money to build disaster tolerant solutions. Putting this technology in their hands is like giving them a loaded gun and asking them to spin the barrel.
It would seem that Mark Heise is talking out of his backside again. This article, a fascinating read, quotes Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia University as saying:Read the article, it's quite an eye opener.
Macka
And just how are they planning to fund all this? Considering the dilapidated state of the russian economy at the moment, you'd think they'd be more concerned with looking after terraferma and getting their house straight back home instead of firing billions of dollars into outer space.
AdvFS, currently on HP's Tru64 Unix and also (already) ported to the up and coming combined Tru64 + HP-UX offering, called Enterprise Unix, has a snapshot feature called 'cloning'. A cloned filesystem is mountable, and only contains pointers to the blocks of data on the original. Further write operations on the original first copy the data block to be changed to the clone before allowing the block to be replaced. It takes seconds to create a clone of a terrabyte filesytem and then you're back in business. This feature has been around for years!
You shouldn't make statements like that without doing your homework.
You're pretty impressed with yourself, ain't ye?
Ad hominem, and your words not mine.
So I'm pulling the concept of "tester" out of my ass, eh?
Actually I said you pulled the example of tester "out of the air", not your ass. I wouldn't credit you with creating the concept, that implies intelligence. Besides, I doubt you're that old.
Are you qualified to talk about software development?
Ha, I recognise a hook when I see one. If I have to explain my work history and experience to you, then psychologically I put myself on the defensive, while opening the door for you to try and spin this off into an area where you feel more comfortable doing battle. Fat chance. Think I'll stay on topic, i.e. your shameful, self serving attack on the parent poster. Not that I expect you to give up just yet, I'm quite confident you'll have another go at trying to maneuver me into a defensive posture, if only from a compulsive desire to get the last word in. Go on, give it your best shot, I'm more than a match for you.
Not really.
Ooo, change of tack. Feigning disinterest and the start of playing down the significance of your own actions.
I just have a few minutes to spare from work to comment on a message board.
"just" a few innocent minutes, oh you poor thing. They must be working you to the bone. Someone pass me a tissue!
I accuse you of nothing more than bias
Oh "nothing more" than that. Golly gosh, I was SO wrong to interpret that as a cheep shot. (NOT)
You might hurt yourself.
Is that the voice of experience?
Have you ever hear of a software tester? They test. They don't code. They shouldn't code. That's the coder's job, as so many testers have pointed out to me over the years.
Ooo, lets just pull something out of the air shall we to cover your ass. *yawn*
Never said they weren't. Again, your bias coming through.
Oooo, spin me round, maybe I'll get dizzy. Using double negatives to try and make a positive, while attempting to shift the focus away from you by suggesting I'm biased, isn't fooling anyone. *yawn*
Terse and "lame ass" comments can be useful sometimes. They often serve to elicit reactions that show the ingrained biases of others. Your reaction was a great example of that.
So now we get to the truth of the matter. Your life is so shallow that the only way you can get noticed is to create a stink in public. Did you know that fastidious self-absorption, childish egocentricity, and inexplicable anger are signs of chronic depression. You should go see a doctor.
The original poster specifically said that the software wouldn't change because it was open source
Close, but no cigar. His very carefully thought out critique of the Open Source development model's inability to code fix usability problems, was specificly about usability problems. NOT that Open Source software would not, could not be changed. You're quoting his words out of context.
And notice that I never said "code" in my reply. That's your addition
Well Duh! You critisized him for not getting off his lazy ass and helping to fix it. Just how is he supposed to fix it without changing the code? By magic?
As a matter of fact, articles like that are very useful feedback. The author has obviously spent some time thinking about the problem, and backed up his view with practical examples to underscore his points. He even went so far as to suggest ways of improving performance, clearly based on knowledge of how other software projects sequence events to give the end user a more snappy experience.
He was certainly a dam site more helpful than your lame ass reply. Though you were probably too busy frothing at the mouth to notice because someone had dared to critisized an Open Source project.
That's not my attitude, son
Well then you should pick your words more carefully in future, instead of sounding off like a wounded Zealot. And I thought old timers like you were supposed to be the sensible mature ones around here.
Oh wake up and smell the coffee! This stupid attitude that end-users-with-a-view only deserve to have one if they can code too, is sooo old hat. Linux has grown to encompass the world of ORDINARY people now too, or hadn't you noticed? Get with the times for god sake!
I once read a quote from a multi-millionaire, who's name I can't remember for the life of me. Basicly, he said: "most people are too busy earning a living, to make any real money". And it's true.
Amazing! This is the direct opposite to the EU, where the employers power to demand you worked more than 40 hours, were stripped several years ago. I remember being asked by a former employer to sign a waver to allow me to work more than 40 hours if necessary. Naturally, guaranteed overtime was part of the deal.
Macka (UK).