Are you serious? Have you worked with a programming team from India before? Had anyone come over to your company on an H1B to assist you during busy season? If not, you have no idea what you're talking about. What the hell is "western egos"? Do you know anything about the different Sects in India, and which one most college educated Indian workers come from? Trust me, India has just as many egotistical programmers as any other country in the world - so don't go around assuming either side is more productive.
I disagree with that theory. I don't see what good it is doing by running 2 antivirus utilities, I think it's a load of garbage. Why? Well, you say a virus "slipped" by the other 2. Well, what if the second program you are using just caught it first because it happens to have a higher process priority? It's a huge system resource waste to be running to programs to accomplish the same thing. Just properly configure your one antivirus program, and make sure you download the dat files everyday early in the morning
Whatever you do, don't get this service. My boss has it, and hates it. Dial-up is faster, which is sad. To answer your question, yes, it bogs down during the day and the lag is awful. Dial-up is probably 3x faster for things like SSH and pcanywhere. It's a good concept... until you imagine how it's going to work with 2 way communication. Downstream is fine, upstream is a nightmare. In other words, keep your inexpensive dial-up account until something better comes along.
It's only a matter of time before Mozilla includes the ability to squash these damn things. I for one will not tolerate such intrusive ads on bandwidth I pay for. Then again, I will also realize which sites are pushing it, and stay away from these for good if this is the type of business they choose to do. Banner ads are fine with me - pop up ads, and now pop up video are not, and they will not be tolerated.
The PS2 Model SCPH-30001 was horrible at reading DVD-R discs. The newer models are much, much better. So, if you want to watch home movies, you have to pitch the first generation ps2 and get a new one, like a V7, V9, or V10 console. V9 and V10 being almost identical on that front, but V7 is not bad either. About that problem with model 1001 for the PS1 above - I had that problem with my generation 1 model, and it was because Sony used plastic slide rails in the laser instead of metal. Future models used aluminum. One such fix for that problem was to take apart the laser, sand it down so the rails were even again, and then apply aluminum from a pop can with crazy glue on the rails so the plastic is protected, and doesn't wear anymore. I had a lot of success using that method with fixing those old consoles.
My point is that just because your PS1 still works, that doesn't mean that there hasn't been thousands of people who's PS1 or PS2s died within the first year they had them. That's not good - but Sony makes a lot of cash this way, and so do people like me who charge to do repairs:)
I don't see this as being bad for Open Source - because if Open Source is truly the best option for the state, they will choose it. It won't force the state to use it if it isn't right. That will make the software better in the long run - if it needs to improve to compete.
It turns out I had to add that intermediate.crt file and that config directive into Apache 1.3.27 and it works now that I put that stuff in with the virtual host information.
I did go there.... I don't have the line SSLCACertificateFile in my httpd.conf file... So, I'm afraid this page hasn't helped me much today. Should I have that directive in my conf file?
Spam and popups are two very, very different problems. I do think SPAM is very capable of being handled at ISP level in most cases, but pop ups are a browser problem. As long as you use a decent browser, such as Mozilla, which blocks them easily, you can't do a thing about it - unless you can filter http traffic and somehow block all javascript, which to my knowledge is not possible or desirable. Just give all your clients a CD with Mozilla on it, and tell them to use that. For most pages, it renders just fine. ESPN.com has major issues with pages rendering properly with any browser other than IE, but for the most part, those alternative browsers work great and are loaded with cool features.
Yeah, I know - the benefits do seem more important than the creatures, however I'm just glad I'm not the one who has to torture the animals and then feel guilty about it.
It's horrible. I know drugs are good things, and need to be tested, but damn. That's inhumane treatment to animals. I'm no hippie or PETA member, but stuff like that makes me ill to think about.
I hear you - I was also paying $10/disc, it was crazy. I had about 1 out of every 2 burns fail... so it was a very expensive thing to be playing around with.
That's odd, because a buddy of mine and I split a Ricoh scsi burner for $300 in '96. Ours was 2x, so maybe the one for a grand was faster.
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No, I was talking exactly about what I was responding to:
"Yes, that is incorrect. The root DNS servers hold the DNS glue records for each registered domain. DNS glue records are the NS records created from the DNS server information you specified when you registered the domain. So, you may be changing A, PTR, and CNAME records all you want, but the DNS glue records for your domain don't change unless you make a change with your domain registrar."
I'm not an idiot - I realize that the root servers register the basic information about a domain name. What my point was, is that the MX information is stored on my LOCAL dns server. Thus, more requests to my local server would equal more traffic, no matter how slight if someone was trying to spoof email from my domain name. That was and still is my point.
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Ok, so what I'm saying is that the MX records will have to get pulled from my dns servers, correct? If so, wouldn't the SPF records also be pulled from my local dns?? If so, then that will equal greater traffic on my network.
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"1) Most mail servers already to a return DNS lookup on the IP of who the sender is. (The recived from lines in the headers) DNS takes so little bandwidth compared to normal activity (even compared to the payload of the email it is tiny, not consider all the web browsing, DNS is trivial)"
I realize dns is not a major network usuage offender, but more traffic is more traffic - I'm not saying it would be enough of a reason to not do it. I'm all about killing spam as soon as possible. If this helps, I'm all for it. I simply wanted to know how those issues are addressed.
"2)DNS works by asking the root servers who owns a domain. The root servers respond either with the DNS for the domain, or with a no such domain. (Ever hear of Verisign's sitefinder? Verisign runs the root servers, and they started saying anything unowned belonged to them) Essentially no overhead is involved in this."
Yes, I have heard of Verisigns dirty tactics. What don't understand is how the root servers can return the DNS, when I change ours constantly, and I don't allow domain transfers to root servers... I allow transfers to specific dns server, so do root servers get a transfer by default? I assumed that if a domain name exists, the dns request is passed onto the authorative dns server... is this incorrect?
" 2) Spammers tend to use made up domains anyways.
Not in my experience, not anymore. Many MTAs will, by default, bounce mail that doesn't come from a genuine domain. So spammers use real domains, or real email addresses. "
Well, most of my spam comes from forged domains which don't exist, usually with a few constants here and there with a bunch of numbers thrown in.
" The timeout would have to be short for this to work....
Why? If you're waiting for a response, you're not burning CPU. The timeout can be 1 second or 120, and you still use the same amount of CPU. "
I guess I'm just not sure of how much extra load it adds to a server if there is a huge que of messages sitting there to be verified. How often will the server try to recheck these?
" [If] a busy mail server can't respond in time, the email is rejected,
Why can't it be deferred (which normally happens with most DNS errors), or even failsafe so it gets passed (which normally happens with most anti-spam DNS measures)?"
In my business, deferred email, even 4 hours, is just as bad as not getting it most of the time. Email is a benefit to our business because it's instant. So, delaying it for hours is a bad thing for us.
This is a great idea. I'm all in favor of it. I would update my companies DNS to this new standard immediately. But, I envision these issues, correct me if I'm wrong:
1) Increased network traffic at all points - where one mail server gets the email, and the network of the domain being sent from or forged. Imagine how this might increase AOL's or hotmail's network traffic, while they gain nothing from it. Every mail server in the world could be trying to contact their dns servers to check if they allow the mail. I hope you like lag if you use AOL.
2) Spammers tend to use made up domains anyways. This is bad with this method for several reasons. The first being that you will have delayed email receiving times because your mail server will be trying to contact dns servers that don't exist. The timeout would have to be short for this to work.... then on the other hand, if the timeout is too short, and a busy mail server can't respond in time, the email is rejected, which is just as bad as a real email getting flagged as spam, aka a false positive.
While I agree in practice with this technology, I'd like to see how people can solve these issues before I would use it at my company.
Actually, SQL (Structured Query Language) is not a database, it's a language - aka, a tool for accessing databases. Microsoft SQL Server *is* a database application however, and I think their name confuses people, like the poster of this article.
I want my phone service to cut out everytime a Microsoft worm hits the wild..... I'll stick to current "old phone" technology for the time being, thank you.
Athlons don't have any more of a tendency to overheat than Pentiums do now. Back before the AMD cpus had sufficient thermal production checks in various places, this was true. The Athlon 64 has just as much protection as the new Pentiums do, heat plate and all.
"It sounds like you're just pissed off because Apple, for a couple of brief years, has a lead in marketshare in this particular field. So what?"
I'm not pissed off at Apple for any reason. I'm pissed at people who constantly refuse to acknowledge that there are competitors for things like the iPod. That's what I started talking about 2 posts ago.
"But you can replace it yourself , and if you can post on Slashdot, I think you can read the directions and do it."
So in order to replace the battery, you have to buy a "special kit" with tools to forceably pry the damn thing apart. How neat. That's great design.
" This is where the hell I got the $49 battery. "
Without the "special kit", this $49 would be useless. And if you buy the kit, you're spending more than $49 ($59 actually), when you might as well just ship the stupid thing back to Apple and pay them $99 for a refurb. So, either way you are now stuck paying over $50 for a battery for a small hand held device. Some laptop batteries don't even cost that much. And yes, I do know of all kinds of devices that have batteries go bad - and my point is, everyone of them is made to have the battery easily replaceable, without jamming something sharp into the case to pry it apart.
So you're saying anyone with a GPA of less than 3.5 can't get a good job and has no skills? Better tell that to the employers I have had for the last 5 years, some of which while I was in school... instead of memorizing test questions, I was busy learning how to program at my job to help get me through my over priced education.
Yeah, everybody keeps saying that, but it's still important to realize that an ACC file downloaded from iTunes will play on absolutely nothing else but iTunes or an iPod. That sounds like being locked in to me.
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Are you serious? Have you worked with a programming team from India before? Had anyone come over to your company on an H1B to assist you during busy season? If not, you have no idea what you're talking about. What the hell is "western egos"? Do you know anything about the different Sects in India, and which one most college educated Indian workers come from? Trust me, India has just as many egotistical programmers as any other country in the world - so don't go around assuming either side is more productive.
I disagree with that theory. I don't see what good it is doing by running 2 antivirus utilities, I think it's a load of garbage. Why? Well, you say a virus "slipped" by the other 2. Well, what if the second program you are using just caught it first because it happens to have a higher process priority? It's a huge system resource waste to be running to programs to accomplish the same thing. Just properly configure your one antivirus program, and make sure you download the dat files everyday early in the morning
Whatever you do, don't get this service. My boss has it, and hates it. Dial-up is faster, which is sad. To answer your question, yes, it bogs down during the day and the lag is awful. Dial-up is probably 3x faster for things like SSH and pcanywhere. It's a good concept... until you imagine how it's going to work with 2 way communication. Downstream is fine, upstream is a nightmare. In other words, keep your inexpensive dial-up account until something better comes along.
Yeah, but there currently IS a directivo that is HD.... or am I crazy? I thought they were already selling those things.
It's only a matter of time before Mozilla includes the ability to squash these damn things. I for one will not tolerate such intrusive ads on bandwidth I pay for. Then again, I will also realize which sites are pushing it, and stay away from these for good if this is the type of business they choose to do. Banner ads are fine with me - pop up ads, and now pop up video are not, and they will not be tolerated.
The person you are arguing with is VERY correct - the first generation of the PS1 had a very, very bad laser in it. You want sources? Read up for PS1:
/ ps2-1.html
:)
My favorite PS1 Lens Repair Guide
Common Problem with SCPH-1001 model
And now for PS2:
http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/003/gaming/ps2
http://faqs.ign.com/articles/390/390535p1.html
And I could go on and on...
The PS2 Model SCPH-30001 was horrible at reading DVD-R discs. The newer models are much, much better. So, if you want to watch home movies, you have to pitch the first generation ps2 and get a new one, like a V7, V9, or V10 console. V9 and V10 being almost identical on that front, but V7 is not bad either. About that problem with model 1001 for the PS1 above - I had that problem with my generation 1 model, and it was because Sony used plastic slide rails in the laser instead of metal. Future models used aluminum. One such fix for that problem was to take apart the laser, sand it down so the rails were even again, and then apply aluminum from a pop can with crazy glue on the rails so the plastic is protected, and doesn't wear anymore. I had a lot of success using that method with fixing those old consoles.
My point is that just because your PS1 still works, that doesn't mean that there hasn't been thousands of people who's PS1 or PS2s died within the first year they had them. That's not good - but Sony makes a lot of cash this way, and so do people like me who charge to do repairs
I don't see this as being bad for Open Source - because if Open Source is truly the best option for the state, they will choose it. It won't force the state to use it if it isn't right. That will make the software better in the long run - if it needs to improve to compete.
It turns out I had to add that intermediate.crt file and that config directive into Apache 1.3.27 and it works now that I put that stuff in with the virtual host information.
I did go there.... I don't have the line SSLCACertificateFile in my httpd.conf file... So, I'm afraid this page hasn't helped me much today. Should I have that directive in my conf file?
Spam and popups are two very, very different problems. I do think SPAM is very capable of being handled at ISP level in most cases, but pop ups are a browser problem. As long as you use a decent browser, such as Mozilla, which blocks them easily, you can't do a thing about it - unless you can filter http traffic and somehow block all javascript, which to my knowledge is not possible or desirable. Just give all your clients a CD with Mozilla on it, and tell them to use that. For most pages, it renders just fine. ESPN.com has major issues with pages rendering properly with any browser other than IE, but for the most part, those alternative browsers work great and are loaded with cool features.
Yeah, I know - the benefits do seem more important than the creatures, however I'm just glad I'm not the one who has to torture the animals and then feel guilty about it.
It's horrible. I know drugs are good things, and need to be tested, but damn. That's inhumane treatment to animals. I'm no hippie or PETA member, but stuff like that makes me ill to think about.
I hear you - I was also paying $10/disc, it was crazy. I had about 1 out of every 2 burns fail... so it was a very expensive thing to be playing around with.
That's odd, because a buddy of mine and I split a Ricoh scsi burner for $300 in '96. Ours was 2x, so maybe the one for a grand was faster.
No, I was talking exactly about what I was responding to:
"Yes, that is incorrect. The root DNS servers hold the DNS glue records for each registered domain. DNS glue records are the NS records created from the DNS server information you specified when you registered the domain. So, you may be changing A, PTR, and CNAME records all you want, but the DNS glue records for your domain don't change unless you make a change with your domain registrar."
I'm not an idiot - I realize that the root servers register the basic information about a domain name. What my point was, is that the MX information is stored on my LOCAL dns server. Thus, more requests to my local server would equal more traffic, no matter how slight if someone was trying to spoof email from my domain name. That was and still is my point.
Ok, so what I'm saying is that the MX records will have to get pulled from my dns servers, correct? If so, wouldn't the SPF records also be pulled from my local dns?? If so, then that will equal greater traffic on my network.
"1) Most mail servers already to a return DNS lookup on the IP of who the sender is. (The recived from lines in the headers) DNS takes so little bandwidth compared to normal activity (even compared to the payload of the email it is tiny, not consider all the web browsing, DNS is trivial)"
I realize dns is not a major network usuage offender, but more traffic is more traffic - I'm not saying it would be enough of a reason to not do it. I'm all about killing spam as soon as possible. If this helps, I'm all for it. I simply wanted to know how those issues are addressed.
"2)DNS works by asking the root servers who owns a domain. The root servers respond either with the DNS for the domain, or with a no such domain. (Ever hear of Verisign's sitefinder? Verisign runs the root servers, and they started saying anything unowned belonged to them) Essentially no overhead is involved in this."
Yes, I have heard of Verisigns dirty tactics. What don't understand is how the root servers can return the DNS, when I change ours constantly, and I don't allow domain transfers to root servers... I allow transfers to specific dns server, so do root servers get a transfer by default? I assumed that if a domain name exists, the dns request is passed onto the authorative dns server... is this incorrect?
" 2) Spammers tend to use made up domains anyways.
Not in my experience, not anymore. Many MTAs will, by default, bounce mail that doesn't come from a genuine domain. So spammers use real domains, or real email addresses. "
Well, most of my spam comes from forged domains which don't exist, usually with a few constants here and there with a bunch of numbers thrown in.
" The timeout would have to be short for this to work....
Why? If you're waiting for a response, you're not burning CPU. The timeout can be 1 second or 120, and you still use the same amount of CPU. "
I guess I'm just not sure of how much extra load it adds to a server if there is a huge que of messages sitting there to be verified. How often will the server try to recheck these?
" [If] a busy mail server can't respond in time, the email is rejected,
Why can't it be deferred (which normally happens with most DNS errors), or even failsafe so it gets passed (which normally happens with most anti-spam DNS measures)?"
In my business, deferred email, even 4 hours, is just as bad as not getting it most of the time. Email is a benefit to our business because it's instant. So, delaying it for hours is a bad thing for us.
This is a great idea. I'm all in favor of it. I would update my companies DNS to this new standard immediately. But, I envision these issues, correct me if I'm wrong:
1) Increased network traffic at all points - where one mail server gets the email, and the network of the domain being sent from or forged. Imagine how this might increase AOL's or hotmail's network traffic, while they gain nothing from it. Every mail server in the world could be trying to contact their dns servers to check if they allow the mail. I hope you like lag if you use AOL.
2) Spammers tend to use made up domains anyways. This is bad with this method for several reasons. The first being that you will have delayed email receiving times because your mail server will be trying to contact dns servers that don't exist. The timeout would have to be short for this to work.... then on the other hand, if the timeout is too short, and a busy mail server can't respond in time, the email is rejected, which is just as bad as a real email getting flagged as spam, aka a false positive.
While I agree in practice with this technology, I'd like to see how people can solve these issues before I would use it at my company.
Actually, SQL (Structured Query Language) is not a database, it's a language - aka, a tool for accessing databases. Microsoft SQL Server *is* a database application however, and I think their name confuses people, like the poster of this article.
I want my phone service to cut out everytime a Microsoft worm hits the wild..... I'll stick to current "old phone" technology for the time being, thank you.
Athlons don't have any more of a tendency to overheat than Pentiums do now. Back before the AMD cpus had sufficient thermal production checks in various places, this was true. The Athlon 64 has just as much protection as the new Pentiums do, heat plate and all.
"It sounds like you're just pissed off because Apple, for a couple of brief years, has a lead in marketshare in this particular field. So what?"
I'm not pissed off at Apple for any reason. I'm pissed at people who constantly refuse to acknowledge that there are competitors for things like the iPod. That's what I started talking about 2 posts ago.
"But you can replace it yourself , and if you can post on Slashdot, I think you can read the directions and do it."
So in order to replace the battery, you have to buy a "special kit" with tools to forceably pry the damn thing apart. How neat. That's great design.
" This is where the hell I got the $49 battery. "
Without the "special kit", this $49 would be useless. And if you buy the kit, you're spending more than $49 ($59 actually), when you might as well just ship the stupid thing back to Apple and pay them $99 for a refurb. So, either way you are now stuck paying over $50 for a battery for a small hand held device. Some laptop batteries don't even cost that much. And yes, I do know of all kinds of devices that have batteries go bad - and my point is, everyone of them is made to have the battery easily replaceable, without jamming something sharp into the case to pry it apart.
So you're saying anyone with a GPA of less than 3.5 can't get a good job and has no skills? Better tell that to the employers I have had for the last 5 years, some of which while I was in school... instead of memorizing test questions, I was busy learning how to program at my job to help get me through my over priced education.
Yeah, everybody keeps saying that, but it's still important to realize that an ACC file downloaded from iTunes will play on absolutely nothing else but iTunes or an iPod. That sounds like being locked in to me.