I have a copy of my e-mail/contacts/calendar in many places.
I have a t-mobile phone. I active sync to my server over the air. I active sync that data to a separate PST on my work PC. This work PC can access these e-mails both via the PST file as well as directly on the server (two accounts.) I also have my home PC syncing up from my phone so a copy is there.
Scenario: Server crashes. I still have everything on my PST file at work and home from which I can recover. Scenario: Phone crashes. So what? Re-sync from server. Scenario: Home PC crashes. I can re-sync everything but my e-mails. I'd only have 3 days of e-mails because that's all the phone Syncs. But I could temporarily sync ALL and be back to normal. Scenario: Work PC crashes. My PST file is backed up to a server daily. Copy it to a new PC and re setup the direct account, then sync. Back to normal.
Cover your bases... Reminds me, time to Ghost image my PC.
>> Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal
That really had me wondering at first. I have over 30 CD's on my website. All the content on my website is Copyright. So did Australia make my own links, internal and extermal, which point to my own website illegal? What gives them the right? I am the copyright holder, so how can they make linking to copyright material in and of itself illegal?
Then I RTFA and found out that the title, much like AP our Reuters, has nothing to do with the actual story.
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I removed my server from checking them today. For grins, I went back a week to see how many uce's they blocked. I did not find one.
>>...as to circumventing WGA: it's already been circumvented for XP SP2. You actually have to download and run the WGA executable to destroy a cracked XP SP2 install (Windows Update doesn't push it to you). Vista may be a different story though
That's a bit misleading. Automatic Updates will push WGA to you. Media Player 11 was released to customers, and it has WGA built into the patch. So if you have your computer setup to automatically download patches and apply them and you apply Media Player 11 then you have WGA now.
>>It looks like the PS2 and the Xbox 360 are both outselling the new consoles- which is surprising to me.
We have a PS1, Gameboy Advance, and plan on buying a WII. The Nintendo caters to the younger children with more games that are not so violent.
But this is not a Christmas gift, it is a goal for the kids. A reward.
I have asked when I happen to be in the electronic departments if they have any WII's and it is usually "We had (5-20) on (day of week) and expect another shipment of the same on (same day of week.)"
Often I here others asking about the WII. I have not once heard of anyone asking for a PS3. I think price is the issue here. Several times I have seen people give up(?) and end up with an XBOX 360.
While I understand they want to work the bugs out (such as the WII firmware issue) they really should have done that quicker and had enough consoles to buy this Christmas season. Sony and Nintendo are going to loose a lot of sales to XBOX 360, in my opinion.
The thing I hate is when I get into the passing lane to let merging traffic onto the two lane highway. Then I attempt to get back into the slow lane, but the person to the right of me is right beside me. I try to slow down, but then he slows down all the way to 50. I try to speed up then he speeds up to 70. All the while the person behind me is pissed off at me because he can't do 90 in a 55, so he rides my bumper.
I agree. I am against any legislation here though. I currently QoS about 700 users traffic. We prioritize based on just about everything. An.EXE in FTP/HTTP traffic gets lower priority than a Citrix session for example. But they both can fill the pipes if they need to. SMTP has a cap limit so it can not fill the pipe. It also has a low QoS. HTTP traffic in general is lower priority than HTTPS traffic. ISO downloads are capped at 90% and QoS very low. Certain web sites have bandwidth caps and/or low priority while some websites have high priority.
That is what I do. It works very well. I can share a limited resource and get much better utilization out of it. Why shouldn't ISP's be able to do the same thing?
They should not, however, expect me to pay if I am not their customer. Now say I want to pay them to get my website to have priority. I have no problem with that. But how can they quantify these results to me? How can I to myself?
My ISP limits bandwidth on certain ports. Many block certain ports. Some cap certain websites. I have no problem with this. I would much better see priority throttling over bandwidth limits, but thats my opinion. I'd rather my ISP limit my bit torrent downloads so my BF2 doesn't lag. Works for me.
Citrix for example was designed to run over dialup modems.
We're not talking gaming machines at this point. Nor video editing computers. We are talking about computers that can surf the web and can do office productivity stuff. This is a major portion of the desktop. Think corporate.
If you can boot the computer up into enough of a Linux X to display a decent graphics resolution and color depth, you can just transfer the screen updates to the client.
If we are talking about something like Office, you don't even need to have a complex rendering system. It's not to difficult to tell the client to draw a bunch of squares with numbers in them.
As everyone has pointed out, who knows what Google is thinking. But it is an option. It was an option 10 years ago, but Microsoft bought and killed off the companies working in this area.
My thoughts exactly. Drop in an AS/400 cluster and use DB2/400 for the database, then use something like OpenText (aka Gauss and Magellan) for imaging system.
Of course, any major system/could/ work if proper planning is done. You can split up the Citrix farms so that a local server outage doesn't take down everyone. You can split up the systems so that certain databases (aka systems) are on one cluster of servers, while another system is on another cluster.
Sounds like they tried to combine too many things into one pot. You need to take baby steps towards your goal. Implement one system and stabilize it, then move on to the next.
>>The U.S. voting system does not meet international mandated guidelines for a "democratic" election yet we say we are the "greatest democracy on earth", go figure..
Yea, go figure. The idiots who don't realize we have a Republic and that a democracy is a very bad thing. But how many people think the USA is a democracy? I would guess half the USA thinks that.
Says something about public education in the USA, eh?
I use YaHoo as well as Hotmail. While you can use these services as Webmail, they also can be used as POP3 services as well as forwarding services.
Both sides arguments are somewhat lacking. Having a clone of the users hard drive means nothing. How hard would it be to edit the "mailstore" so the headers are forged? Very simple. A clone proves nothing.
But the reply should have been briefer and said that at no time did the e-mail ever reside on the users hard drive, that he does use webmail (not that he could use it.) That, unlike an internet service providers POP3 mail server where the e-mail does reside on the users hard drive, webmail only resides on the providers hard drive and is viewed locally - not stored locally. That the hard drive required for forensic analysis would be that of Hotmails & YaHoo's. Sure, you don't want to bring them into this case - but what you did bit ya.
In any event, what this tells me is that if I am going to sue over e-mail that I need to have a very simple machine for reading e-mail from which I can before hand have the spam on.
Maybe we need to have a lobby on our side treating these judges to nice dinners and golf outings?
Actually, since I am not a Cingular customer, it is not free nor $15 a month. It is $15 + the cost of service + taxes a month.
So in my case, to get this "free" service, I must pay around $50 a month.
Kind of like these advertisements going around saying stay with radio because it is free. It is not free. I paid for the radio, and as a consumer I indirectly paid for the advertising that funds the radio programming by purchasing goods advertised.
I am much happier paying $20/mo for two XM subscriptions and listening to the stations that are commercial free. I refuse to listen to nothing but commercials on my 30 minute commute to work.
I am glad they are doing this via WSUS. They should have also done MDAC 2.81, Scripting 5.6, and IE 6.0sp1 this way. Sure beats manually doing it, or even creating SMS and IEAK installs.
Even though I have my test group set to approve all updates asap, the IE7 did not become approved by default. That means if I don't want it, I just don't approve it.
I turned off Spamcop for a while. But it is a lot better now. With the proper exception entries, it works very well.
I use the Sorbs.net responses 5, 7, 9, and 11. I don't use the more common 6, nor 11. I did, but too many false positives.
I use spamcop, abuseat.org, antispam.or.id, dsbl.org, relays.ordb.org, and the spamhaus.org responses 2, 3, 4, and 6.
I also run my own lists. I reject around 12,000 and up e-mails a day with about 300 a day making it through to the anti-spam filters and maybe 100 getting past those.
What I don't get is why don't we combine a "Hot or Not" type program with a blacklist and make it open source?
You would need a user ID to create entries. You could rate an IP as spammy or not. After so many spammys ratings, it gets on one blacklist. After more, it gets added to another.
There would have to be math to remove entries after so long that have no complaints. If a userid is falsely stating certain IP's are not spam, that userid would get canceled and all his entries revoked and the lists updated, if needed.
This year I have got over a hundred calls about the election. On my Cell Phone. At work mostly.
About 40 of these calls were from a group in NYC, NY. They would call and then hang up. Their return phone number on callerid was blocked from receiving calls.
I was almost ready to vote for the/other/ guy's Governor candidate. But she's called me around 30 times and I am sick of it. The Republican and I currently are dishing out an issue in court, but he's only called me 2 times. There is not 3rd person to vote for.
Anyway, this is getting old and it's worth fighting. Thanks for the post.
So do we know what e360's netblock is? I would like to block their netblock at our router and deny them any access at all to my netblock, regardless of Spamhaus being up or down.
>>While that may become an issue in the future, at the moment the only thing stifiling innovation (and competition) is microsofts memory-dump file format. The ODF is a standard composition format; Any well written program should be able to read ODF files, and should be able to write out an ODF in a similar way that photoshop or your favorite graphics program can output JPEGs. The resulting file may be slightly less useful, but it's a platform.
Don't we already have this? Isn't it.RTF? I use OpenOffice at home and I use Office 2003 at work. When I create documents, I use.RTF for the file format. Heck, even my AS/400 can read/write.RTF. But if I embed an Excel document inside my Word document and use external links to populate calculations, there is no way in the world OpenOffice will open this document. I don't see how ODF could help this.
We have HTML standards per W3C. Can anyone name a site that actually conforms to W3C standards? Mine don't. So we end up with browsers that display these standard pages differently.
If ODF moves forward, what are the odds that we end up adding more vulnerabilitys? As with HTML, IE and Mozilla trying to display non-W3C comliant documents have ended up with coding that allowed exploit. Let us hope ODF is explicit, refusing to display a non compliant document.
>>Aero is not required on corporate PCs so scratch the video upgrade. We deployed Windows XP with the dummied-down Windows 2000 interface and expect to do the same with Vista. We do allow users to change to the Fisher-Price UI if they like, though.
>>Corporate customers don't pay between $750 and $1k for Office - our enterprise licensing for Microsoft products (which includes the OS, Office Professional and Server and Exchange CALs) runs about $200 per PC per year.
Exactly right. Our first XP PRO PC was a Pentium 200MHZ, which ran XP PRO just fine with all the UI bells turned off. All it needed was extra memory to be usefull. This was my PC.
Prior to installing XP, we bought XP and used the backrev agreement to install NT4. When Vista comes out, we will do the same. We will purchase PC's with VISTA, but install XP. Eventually, once all our software works with Vista, we will roll it out to everyone. By that time, half the PC's will have VISTA ready hardware anyway and the others will run it without Aero.
Here is Missouri, the Democrats kept the polls open in 2000 past the designated close time in Democrat centric areas of the state, while the polls were closed at the correct time everywhere else. Most of the state is Republican with St. Louis and Kansas City being mostly Democrat. The state was leaning very heavy towards Bush until results from these countys that stayed open late came in. They brought the percentage from about 80% Bush closer to 50%. Bush still won Missouri, but locally Republicans lost due to this.
This gave the Democrats extra time to vote, which a Democrat judge ruled legal. So both sides do this crap.
I'd linked my C128 up to a CoCo2 and we had me remote controlling the CoCo2 via this method. It worked ok locally, but pair it up via modem and over phone lines and it was painfully slow.
I've transfered files back and forth between many different OSes included Atari, Radio Shack, Unix, Mainframes, and other oddball's.
Yup. Our customers pay from $4 to a few hundred per week to get certain e-mails from us. They pay AOL to receive this e-mail.
I on the AOL feedback loop. We often will have people who send us e-mails, which we reply to, mark our reply as spam. We get blocklisted. And then all our AOL paying members do not get their e-mails.
We have these AOL folks complain to AOL about not getting these e-mails. We explain to them the problem and they are usually smart enough to look elsewhere for e-mail service that is reliable.
No wonder AOL members are jumping ship. The postmaster at AOL is worthless. I explained to the once that they blocklisted us per the feedback loop because we replied to an e-mail from someone who sent us his application. We have his entire contact information, even though the feedback loop removes the AOL account FROM: line. They say "oh well, that is how it goes."
Of course, you can always bounce your outgoing e-mail from another IP and get past this.
IBM has often charged per the CPW, or processing power and group level, for their software. They license the processor cores. You can have a box with 4 processors and be licensed for 3. If you want to use the 4th in the box, you pay an upgrade fee.
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So does this mean it is time to start encrypting our snail mail?
I have a copy of my e-mail/contacts/calendar in many places.
I have a t-mobile phone. I active sync to my server over the air. I active sync that data to a separate PST on my work PC. This work PC can access these e-mails both via the PST file as well as directly on the server (two accounts.) I also have my home PC syncing up from my phone so a copy is there.
Scenario: Server crashes. I still have everything on my PST file at work and home from which I can recover.
Scenario: Phone crashes. So what? Re-sync from server.
Scenario: Home PC crashes. I can re-sync everything but my e-mails. I'd only have 3 days of e-mails because that's all the phone Syncs. But I could temporarily sync ALL and be back to normal.
Scenario: Work PC crashes. My PST file is backed up to a server daily. Copy it to a new PC and re setup the direct account, then sync. Back to normal.
Cover your bases... Reminds me, time to Ghost image my PC.
My cellphone uses mini USB. My bluetooth headset uses MiniUSB. One of my cameras uses mini-USB. The list goes on.
The funny thing is, I now have enough USB chargers that came with these devices that I have one everywhere I could possible need one.
>> Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal
That really had me wondering at first. I have over 30 CD's on my website. All the content on my website is Copyright. So did Australia make my own links, internal and extermal, which point to my own website illegal? What gives them the right? I am the copyright holder, so how can they make linking to copyright material in and of itself illegal?
Then I RTFA and found out that the title, much like AP our Reuters, has nothing to do with the actual story.
I removed my server from checking them today. For grins, I went back a week to see how many uce's they blocked. I did not find one.
Anyone else notice this?
>>...as to circumventing WGA: it's already been circumvented for XP SP2. You actually have to download and run the WGA executable to destroy a cracked XP SP2 install (Windows Update doesn't push it to you). Vista may be a different story though
That's a bit misleading. Automatic Updates will push WGA to you. Media Player 11 was released to customers, and it has WGA built into the patch. So if you have your computer setup to automatically download patches and apply them and you apply Media Player 11 then you have WGA now.
They did that a few weeks back.
>>It looks like the PS2 and the Xbox 360 are both outselling the new consoles- which is surprising to me.
We have a PS1, Gameboy Advance, and plan on buying a WII. The Nintendo caters to the younger children with more games that are not so violent.
But this is not a Christmas gift, it is a goal for the kids. A reward.
I have asked when I happen to be in the electronic departments if they have any WII's and it is usually "We had (5-20) on (day of week) and expect another shipment of the same on (same day of week.)"
Often I here others asking about the WII. I have not once heard of anyone asking for a PS3. I think price is the issue here. Several times I have seen people give up(?) and end up with an XBOX 360.
While I understand they want to work the bugs out (such as the WII firmware issue) they really should have done that quicker and had enough consoles to buy this Christmas season. Sony and Nintendo are going to loose a lot of sales to XBOX 360, in my opinion.
The thing I hate is when I get into the passing lane to let merging traffic onto the two lane highway. Then I attempt to get back into the slow lane, but the person to the right of me is right beside me. I try to slow down, but then he slows down all the way to 50. I try to speed up then he speeds up to 70. All the while the person behind me is pissed off at me because he can't do 90 in a 55, so he rides my bumper.
Ah, the Christmas spirit.
Great post alanQuatermain (840239).
.EXE in FTP/HTTP traffic gets lower priority than a Citrix session for example. But they both can fill the pipes if they need to. SMTP has a cap limit so it can not fill the pipe. It also has a low QoS. HTTP traffic in general is lower priority than HTTPS traffic. ISO downloads are capped at 90% and QoS very low. Certain web sites have bandwidth caps and/or low priority while some websites have high priority.
I agree. I am against any legislation here though. I currently QoS about 700 users traffic. We prioritize based on just about everything. An
That is what I do. It works very well. I can share a limited resource and get much better utilization out of it. Why shouldn't ISP's be able to do the same thing?
They should not, however, expect me to pay if I am not their customer. Now say I want to pay them to get my website to have priority. I have no problem with that. But how can they quantify these results to me? How can I to myself?
My ISP limits bandwidth on certain ports. Many block certain ports. Some cap certain websites. I have no problem with this. I would much better see priority throttling over bandwidth limits, but thats my opinion. I'd rather my ISP limit my bit torrent downloads so my BF2 doesn't lag. Works for me.
How? Easy.
http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WebHome
Citrix for example was designed to run over dialup modems.
We're not talking gaming machines at this point. Nor video editing computers. We are talking about computers that can surf the web and can do office productivity stuff. This is a major portion of the desktop. Think corporate.
If you can boot the computer up into enough of a Linux X to display a decent graphics resolution and color depth, you can just transfer the screen updates to the client.
If we are talking about something like Office, you don't even need to have a complex rendering system. It's not to difficult to tell the client to draw a bunch of squares with numbers in them.
As everyone has pointed out, who knows what Google is thinking. But it is an option. It was an option 10 years ago, but Microsoft bought and killed off the companies working in this area.
>>Yeah. Malicious Injection was a pretty good flick. I can't wait for Malicious Injection: The SQL.
That has to be the funniest thing I have heard all day. I can just see that on a T-Shirt.
>>Don't send a boy to make a mans job. AS/400!
/could/ work if proper planning is done. You can split up the Citrix farms so that a local server outage doesn't take down everyone. You can split up the systems so that certain databases (aka systems) are on one cluster of servers, while another system is on another cluster.
My thoughts exactly. Drop in an AS/400 cluster and use DB2/400 for the database, then use something like OpenText (aka Gauss and Magellan) for imaging system.
Of course, any major system
Sounds like they tried to combine too many things into one pot. You need to take baby steps towards your goal. Implement one system and stabilize it, then move on to the next.
>>The U.S. voting system does not meet international mandated guidelines for a "democratic" election yet we say we are the "greatest democracy on earth", go figure ..
Yea, go figure. The idiots who don't realize we have a Republic and that a democracy is a very bad thing. But how many people think the USA is a democracy? I would guess half the USA thinks that.
Says something about public education in the USA, eh?
I use YaHoo as well as Hotmail. While you can use these services as Webmail, they also can be used as POP3 services as well as forwarding services.
Both sides arguments are somewhat lacking. Having a clone of the users hard drive means nothing. How hard would it be to edit the "mailstore" so the headers are forged? Very simple. A clone proves nothing.
But the reply should have been briefer and said that at no time did the e-mail ever reside on the users hard drive, that he does use webmail (not that he could use it.) That, unlike an internet service providers POP3 mail server where the e-mail does reside on the users hard drive, webmail only resides on the providers hard drive and is viewed locally - not stored locally. That the hard drive required for forensic analysis would be that of Hotmails & YaHoo's. Sure, you don't want to bring them into this case - but what you did bit ya.
In any event, what this tells me is that if I am going to sue over e-mail that I need to have a very simple machine for reading e-mail from which I can before hand have the spam on.
Maybe we need to have a lobby on our side treating these judges to nice dinners and golf outings?
Actually, since I am not a Cingular customer, it is not free nor $15 a month. It is $15 + the cost of service + taxes a month.
So in my case, to get this "free" service, I must pay around $50 a month.
Kind of like these advertisements going around saying stay with radio because it is free. It is not free. I paid for the radio, and as a consumer I indirectly paid for the advertising that funds the radio programming by purchasing goods advertised.
I am much happier paying $20/mo for two XM subscriptions and listening to the stations that are commercial free. I refuse to listen to nothing but commercials on my 30 minute commute to work.
I am glad they are doing this via WSUS. They should have also done MDAC 2.81, Scripting 5.6, and IE 6.0sp1 this way. Sure beats manually doing it, or even creating SMS and IEAK installs.
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Even though I have my test group set to approve all updates asap, the IE7 did not become approved by default. That means if I don't want it, I just don't approve it.
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I turned off Spamcop for a while. But it is a lot better now. With the proper exception entries, it works very well.
I use the Sorbs.net responses 5, 7, 9, and 11. I don't use the more common 6, nor 11. I did, but too many false positives.
I use spamcop, abuseat.org, antispam.or.id, dsbl.org, relays.ordb.org, and the spamhaus.org responses 2, 3, 4, and 6.
I also run my own lists. I reject around 12,000 and up e-mails a day with about 300 a day making it through to the anti-spam filters and maybe 100 getting past those.
What I don't get is why don't we combine a "Hot or Not" type program with a blacklist and make it open source?
You would need a user ID to create entries. You could rate an IP as spammy or not. After so many spammys ratings, it gets on one blacklist. After more, it gets added to another.
There would have to be math to remove entries after so long that have no complaints. If a userid is falsely stating certain IP's are not spam, that userid would get canceled and all his entries revoked and the lists updated, if needed.
Anyway, that's the simple summary of the idea.
This year I have got over a hundred calls about the election. On my Cell Phone. At work mostly.
/other/ guy's Governor candidate. But she's called me around 30 times and I am sick of it. The Republican and I currently are dishing out an issue in court, but he's only called me 2 times. There is not 3rd person to vote for.
About 40 of these calls were from a group in NYC, NY. They would call and then hang up. Their return phone number on callerid was blocked from receiving calls.
I was almost ready to vote for the
Anyway, this is getting old and it's worth fighting. Thanks for the post.
So do we know what e360's netblock is? I would like to block their netblock at our router and deny them any access at all to my netblock, regardless of Spamhaus being up or down.
>>While that may become an issue in the future, at the moment the only thing stifiling innovation (and competition) is microsofts memory-dump file format. The ODF is a standard composition format; Any well written program should be able to read ODF files, and should be able to write out an ODF in a similar way that photoshop or your favorite graphics program can output JPEGs. The resulting file may be slightly less useful, but it's a platform.
.RTF? I use OpenOffice at home and I use Office 2003 at work. When I create documents, I use .RTF for the file format. Heck, even my AS/400 can read/write .RTF. But if I embed an Excel document inside my Word document and use external links to populate calculations, there is no way in the world OpenOffice will open this document. I don't see how ODF could help this.
Don't we already have this? Isn't it
We have HTML standards per W3C. Can anyone name a site that actually conforms to W3C standards? Mine don't. So we end up with browsers that display these standard pages differently.
If ODF moves forward, what are the odds that we end up adding more vulnerabilitys? As with HTML, IE and Mozilla trying to display non-W3C comliant documents have ended up with coding that allowed exploit. Let us hope ODF is explicit, refusing to display a non compliant document.
>>Aero is not required on corporate PCs so scratch the video upgrade. We deployed Windows XP with the dummied-down Windows 2000 interface and expect to do the same with Vista. We do allow users to change to the Fisher-Price UI if they like, though.
>>Corporate customers don't pay between $750 and $1k for Office - our enterprise licensing for Microsoft products (which includes the OS, Office Professional and Server and Exchange CALs) runs about $200 per PC per year.
Exactly right. Our first XP PRO PC was a Pentium 200MHZ, which ran XP PRO just fine with all the UI bells turned off. All it needed was extra memory to be usefull. This was my PC.
Prior to installing XP, we bought XP and used the backrev agreement to install NT4. When Vista comes out, we will do the same. We will purchase PC's with VISTA, but install XP. Eventually, once all our software works with Vista, we will roll it out to everyone. By that time, half the PC's will have VISTA ready hardware anyway and the others will run it without Aero.
Here is Missouri, the Democrats kept the polls open in 2000 past the designated close time in Democrat centric areas of the state, while the polls were closed at the correct time everywhere else. Most of the state is Republican with St. Louis and Kansas City being mostly Democrat. The state was leaning very heavy towards Bush until results from these countys that stayed open late came in. They brought the percentage from about 80% Bush closer to 50%. Bush still won Missouri, but locally Republicans lost due to this.
This gave the Democrats extra time to vote, which a Democrat judge ruled legal. So both sides do this crap.
http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/hardware/misc/6 4_rs232c24.htm6 4_rs232c96.htm
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http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/hardware/misc/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64#I.2FO_p
Mine had a RS-232C port, afaik.
I'd linked my C128 up to a CoCo2 and we had me remote controlling the CoCo2 via this method. It worked ok locally, but pair it up via modem and over phone lines and it was painfully slow.
I've transfered files back and forth between many different OSes included Atari, Radio Shack, Unix, Mainframes, and other oddball's.
Great computer, but it can't run WoW.
Yup. Our customers pay from $4 to a few hundred per week to get certain e-mails from us. They pay AOL to receive this e-mail.
I on the AOL feedback loop. We often will have people who send us e-mails, which we reply to, mark our reply as spam. We get blocklisted. And then all our AOL paying members do not get their e-mails.
We have these AOL folks complain to AOL about not getting these e-mails. We explain to them the problem and they are usually smart enough to look elsewhere for e-mail service that is reliable.
No wonder AOL members are jumping ship. The postmaster at AOL is worthless. I explained to the once that they blocklisted us per the feedback loop because we replied to an e-mail from someone who sent us his application. We have his entire contact information, even though the feedback loop removes the AOL account FROM: line. They say "oh well, that is how it goes."
Of course, you can always bounce your outgoing e-mail from another IP and get past this.
IBM has had Quad Cores since 2005. They are working on many more cores in their Power6 / Power7 lines;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER5
IBM has often charged per the CPW, or processing power and group level, for their software. They license the processor cores. You can have a box with 4 processors and be licensed for 3. If you want to use the 4th in the box, you pay an upgrade fee.
Interesting stuff.