SpamAssassin is great and wonderful and I love it, but it sure is a pig. SLOW. Way, way too slow. Even on a fast box.
How are you running it and how much e-mail are you getting a second anyway? I just run the plain old Perl script out of procmail and I have no issues on an old PPro-200. I don't even know it's running until my mail appears in my inbox (or in my spam folder).
They should just make the ringtone a coughing sound.
No one will suspect it's a phone ringing.
How about they make a phone that just vibrates like a pager? I better go patent this idea quickly before someone snaps it up! I'm a genius! Vibrating silent cell phones!
So just one directory is encrypted and you pass protect it? Please detail.
It makes an encrypted image file look like a disk under Windows. So, just drag and drop folders and files into it and they are transparently encrypted.
Really now? I've had good luck with my Leadtek Winfast geforce2 card. Does it REALLY matter what cheap taiwanese fab plant of the day actually assembles your board as long as it's an Nvidia processor? Proof of that is that I can still just go download any of Nvidia's reference drivers and they work just fine with all my geforce cards I have. Driver support is far more useful to me after a company dies (or chooses to no longer support old cards) than whether my $100 Geforce card will live for 10 years. I'm more likely to upgrade to a non-supported operating system in that time and Nvidia is more likely to have driver support for it.
There are tons more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I have multiple browsers, they render like shit in all of them and many of them jut give be a stupid fucking please upgrade to netscape/IE 4.x or higher error with no option to even try and render.
Have you tried e-mailing the webmasters at those sites? I know, BMW, Lexus, and Mercedes probably doesn't care what some "stinky GNU/Linux hippie" is running as their browser because they're not going to buy a BMW, Lexus, or Mercedes, but you could pretend! Say you're running Opera or Mozilla under WindowsXP and you wanted to get info on a new BMW for the fall. Take solace in the fact that many of the people designing the web sites in question are no longer employed after the dot-bomb fallout. Being a wizard with FrontPage is no longer a key to getting a job at a fortune 500 company to do web development.. at least I hope not!
I couldn't even get anybody at the IBM, HP, AMD or RedHat booths to speak to me. They just wanted to scan my card and send me info. But when I asked simple questions ("So, tell me about the s390" "Do you have any server products for smaller offices or for nonprofits"?), the salespeople got huffy and would go pursue some bigger fish.
Well, they only have a limited amount of time at the conference and there's no sense wasting it on someone who isn't going to buy their products. You'll get that from any conference though. Say you're with the Department of Energy or something and are interested in "workgroup" level hardware. They may bite and talk to you about their smaller solutions in the hope that you'll pass along the good word to your other departments that may be looking for enterprise level products. On the other hand, like you said, Sun seems good about talking to everyone. I guess they just have better sales weasels.
All-in-all the crawler [nasa.gov] is quite a site to see up close and an amazing engineering marvel.
Doh, before the spelling nazis get on my case, that should be "sight" not "site"... unless I intended it as a pun since it's big enough to be a site.:-)
Imagine something along the lines of a hundred-ton bulldozer with a rocket sitting on top of it.
After getting to walk around under one aftera visit a few years ago to KSC I can attest to the fact that they're massive vehicles. The treads alone tower over a grown man's head. Imagine something like Sealand on tracks (well, a little smaller). The roadbed consists of Alabama river rock several feet deep that supposedly causes less friction for the treads and gets crushed into dust as the crawler runs over it. It was pretty awkward to walk on the rocks since they're very loosely packed. All-in-all the crawler is quite a site to see up close and an amazing engineering marvel.
Anyway, it looks like the enormous weight was causing issues with early bearings even when they were designing it in the 1960's. This explains a bit about that as well.
The install itself isn't half as bad as the security updates. Seriously, what does a Win2K user do after installing? You have to connect a unpatched system to the net,and spend several hours installing patches and rebooting while hoping nobody will hack your system meanwhile.
Not a big deal since you're on an isolated network or behind a firewall aren't you? Aren't you?? Is it even possible to reinstall Win2k these days on a live network? I've seen people on open networks setting up brand new IIS webservers with a fresh Win2k install that get exploited before they can even finish downloading the patches. It's almost too comical to imagine. And to think, just 5 or 6 years ago we would have all sat back and laughed at the stupid users when they called up tech support and said "My friend says there is an e-mail virus going around, what can I do to stop from getting infected?" Lo and behold, Microsoft brought us this feature that was only a hoax before!!;-) Where do YOU want to go today?
This test has one serious fault in it that I can see. The tester didn't use a stock W2K disk on a clean system, he used a Sony restore disk, which is a lot different than what Windows 2000 would normally be installed as. A lot of that time installing Windows could be attributed to the restore disk installing all of the myriad programs that come with new computers.
That's not really a fault though, that's reality. When you install Red Hat Linux you're getting 3 cds worth of applications. When you install the Win2k disc you're getting the OS, IE, and Windows Media Player and that's about it. No Office suite or games (well, minesweeper probably which doesn't count). To compare RH Linux and Win2k you need to compare them both fully installed with all their final apps in place which is difficult to do as system application configurations vary considerably on the different platforms.
On the other hand, if you are the guy in his own backyard or garage who has just made a startling discovery about nanotechnology or cold fusion....well, thats not going to happen so don't worry too much about it.
Even if you did nobody would believe you without hard proof. Skulking about pretending the knowledge is too dangerous for mankind to handle at that point is a surefire way to get yourself labelled a quack and a fake.
It would be nice to let the EU know that people who live under these kinds of laws suffer and are scared.
Scared? Someone holding a gun to your head in the middle of town in broad daylight and demanding money is scary. The DMCA is annoying and unjust, but I wouldn't call it scary. What scares me is having over a third of my income confiscated by the federal government for the purpose of wealth redistribution. Now THAT is scary.
I'm reminded of one of the most insightful quotations I've ever heard.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
And the ONLY way to do that is to sway the masses to your cause. The American Revolution happened because enough people got pissed off over England's unfair taxation that the small group of intellectuals was able to convince them to revolt. If the masses are content with going about their daily lives and you gradually increase the restrictions they will not notice them. It's like training any animal. If you try to institute harsh restrictions immediately they will rebel and attack you, but those introduced gradually will become routine and accepted. In this case, the only thing the rebellious intellectuals will find is that they're in jail as being "radicals" or law breakers while the masses cheer that justice is being uphelled.. at least, that's what CNN and Fox News tells them.
Because it IS illegal. Lending a CD to a friend is fair use (an important right that should be protected), "sharing" copyrighted material with one million "friends" is not.
Why not? As long as you're not expecting compensation for the songs then there is no difference. This is something the Supreme Court needs to decide on. At what number does "sharing" of copyrighted material become illegal? 5 friends? 10? 100? 1000? What if you laborously record audio tapes of the CDs for each of your 100 friends and send them out via mail at great cost to you? Does that make it legitimate fair use?
Congress is really showing its true corporate colors these days. It's time for a non-violent overthrow of our leadership come the next elections to sweep on these people that are consistently violating our freedom in exchange for satisfying their corporate masters. Personally my opinion is that in the digital age copyright needs to be seriously rethought of as a government granted monopoly on distribution of data. Perhaps it's time to shrink the number of years you retain exclusive copyright on a work to 5 years. Remember people, there's no inherent god-given right to own "intellectual property". It's an idea created by the governments to help urge artists to develop new works that would eventually be available in the public domain. These days with the way it works these works will never become public domain (Mickey Mouse for example) and will live forever under their corporate ownership. Something has changed horribly since the original ideas of copyright were penned by our Founding Fathers.
Just my 2 cents which are of course flamebait, a troll, overrated, and stupid. Bite me.
You guys completely miss the point: if everyone downloads ISOs, and no one buys distributions anymore, pretty soon there won't be any distributions to buy nor to download anymore. If sales go down, and therefore distribution makers go belly up, who's gonna make the distribution for you to download?
Debian. At least, I don't think they've become a for-profit corporation yet and as long as they maintain a reliable list of volunteers to mirror the distribution they shouldn't have a problem. So download away!:-)
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If you have unmonitored physical access to a machine, you can tell it what drive to boot from, which means you can root the machine by simply booting off a disk of your choice. The point is, don't expect a machine to be secure if untrusted parties have physical access to it.
The autorun CD would be much easier than rebooting the machine and definitely tipping off the user that their machine has been used to do something. You'd also face the possibility of passwords on the CMOS setup screen and the system bootup. Then you face even more frustration when you finally do get it to boot up and it comes up in OpenBSD or Linux instead of Win98 and LILO has a password on it so you can't just go use a different init to bypass it without entering a password. Ho hum. Not to mention you can't pull the drive out physically and swap it because the damn user has padlocked the case cover shut. These crazy users!
Sure, if you have it set up you could go in through the serial port, but who wants to do that?:)
Oh, I dunno, maybe when the machine is 30 miles away, you fatfinger something, OpenSSH dies, and you don't want to drive in at 3am to go reboot your machine at some random colo site?:-) Never underestimate the power of cheese or remote serial console access!
Look, you may not realize this is a total ripoff, but I installed a network, so I do.
These people are buying T1s for hundreds of dollars a month, then selling us a lousy 3Mbps for $80/mo. That's a rediculous amount of profit!
Are you just trolling or is this some legitimate rant of yours? So, they buy 1.5Mbps worth of bandwidth for $200/month per your statement (in reality they probably pay far less than that) and then sell you twice that amount for $80/month. How is this making a "rediculous" amount of profit? Other than not getting a lot of upstream bandwidth it's a great deal for home users. I can get T-1 download speeds for far less than it would cost me to go out and get an actual commercial T-1 connection through an ISP, not to mention the hassles and delays of getting it installed.
DAMNIT! You kids are getting more clever every day. Back to the drawing board. How about a phone with a battery you can't remove and that is always on?
The biggest problem here is the mere use of the term consumer.
I prefer the term "voter". As in "The voters chose not to re-elect their Senator..." That reminds me, who is voting for these people anyway!? Every right you lose is a hundred times worse than every bit of pork or $300 tax rebate you get offered. Congressmen should be working on laws that give citizens MORE rights, not less.
Visio's strongpoint is the massive library of shapes and images already out there. It'd take a lot longer to sit there and try to draw all the shapes in Dia when you could just pull out Visio and select a bunch of shapes and connect them together with lines. Too bad Dia can't use Visio shape libraries.
There is a standard, it's detailed in RFC 1459. The trouble is AOL and ICQ spent so much time to instill upon people that ICQ or AIM == online chatting.
I don't get it. Why is AOL trying so hard to block third-party clients like Trillian? I think it's a pretty nice application for what it does in that it lets you use one app for several IM services. If they're really so worried about someone else using their servers and not seeing their advertisements, why not create an open source server that could link into their network and let anyone run one. Then you could connect to the free server and you're not wasting their resources nor should you feel guilty about not being spoon-fed their advertising. In fact, I'm not even sure what people see in this whole instant messaging craze that we didn't already have with IRC. Why not just return to IRC?
This can't be true. Microsoft just spent a whole month focusing on security. There must be some mistake.
It's gotta be fake, they included an 800 number. Unless the first thing it asks for is your credit card number it's probably some scam to sell you a penis enlargement device. Hmm, now that I think about it, Microsoft tech support and penis enlargement scams are pretty similar.
Does anyone know if you can perform an FTP based installation a la FreeBSD? I did a quick search and it looks possible with 7.x, but I couldn't find anything on 8.x or 9.0 beta.
Well, it's supported FTP installation since at least version 6. Just get the network.img and dd it onto a floppy. That's all you should need as long as you have a more common ethernet adapter.
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SpamAssassin is great and wonderful and I love it, but it sure is a pig. SLOW. Way, way too slow. Even on a fast box.
How are you running it and how much e-mail are you getting a second anyway? I just run the plain old Perl script out of procmail and I have no issues on an old PPro-200. I don't even know it's running until my mail appears in my inbox (or in my spam folder).
They should just make the ringtone a coughing sound.
No one will suspect it's a phone ringing.
How about they make a phone that just vibrates like a pager? I better go patent this idea quickly before someone snaps it up! I'm a genius! Vibrating silent cell phones!
So just one directory is encrypted and you pass protect it? Please detail.
It makes an encrypted image file look like a disk under Windows. So, just drag and drop folders and files into it and they are transparently encrypted.
Really now? I've had good luck with my Leadtek Winfast geforce2 card. Does it REALLY matter what cheap taiwanese fab plant of the day actually assembles your board as long as it's an Nvidia processor? Proof of that is that I can still just go download any of Nvidia's reference drivers and they work just fine with all my geforce cards I have. Driver support is far more useful to me after a company dies (or chooses to no longer support old cards) than whether my $100 Geforce card will live for 10 years. I'm more likely to upgrade to a non-supported operating system in that time and Nvidia is more likely to have driver support for it.
There are tons more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I have multiple browsers, they render like shit in all of them and many of them jut give be a stupid fucking please upgrade to netscape/IE 4.x or higher error with no option to even try and render.
Have you tried e-mailing the webmasters at those sites? I know, BMW, Lexus, and Mercedes probably doesn't care what some "stinky GNU/Linux hippie" is running as their browser because they're not going to buy a BMW, Lexus, or Mercedes, but you could pretend! Say you're running Opera or Mozilla under WindowsXP and you wanted to get info on a new BMW for the fall. Take solace in the fact that many of the people designing the web sites in question are no longer employed after the dot-bomb fallout. Being a wizard with FrontPage is no longer a key to getting a job at a fortune 500 company to do web development.. at least I hope not!
I couldn't even get anybody at the IBM, HP, AMD or RedHat booths to speak to me. They just wanted to scan my card and send me info. But when I asked simple questions ("So, tell me about the s390" "Do you have any server products for smaller offices or for nonprofits"?), the salespeople got huffy and would go pursue some bigger fish.
Well, they only have a limited amount of time at the conference and there's no sense wasting it on someone who isn't going to buy their products. You'll get that from any conference though. Say you're with the Department of Energy or something and are interested in "workgroup" level hardware. They may bite and talk to you about their smaller solutions in the hope that you'll pass along the good word to your other departments that may be looking for enterprise level products. On the other hand, like you said, Sun seems good about talking to everyone. I guess they just have better sales weasels.
All-in-all the crawler [nasa.gov] is quite a site to see up close and an amazing engineering marvel.
:-)
Doh, before the spelling nazis get on my case, that should be "sight" not "site"... unless I intended it as a pun since it's big enough to be a site.
Imagine something along the lines of a hundred-ton bulldozer with a rocket sitting on top of it.
After getting to walk around under one aftera visit a few years ago to KSC I can attest to the fact that they're massive vehicles. The treads alone tower over a grown man's head. Imagine something like Sealand on tracks (well, a little smaller). The roadbed consists of Alabama river rock several feet deep that supposedly causes less friction for the treads and gets crushed into dust as the crawler runs over it. It was pretty awkward to walk on the rocks since they're very loosely packed. All-in-all the crawler is quite a site to see up close and an amazing engineering marvel.
Anyway, it looks like the enormous weight was causing issues with early bearings even when they were designing it in the 1960's. This explains a bit about that as well.
The install itself isn't half as bad as the security updates. Seriously, what does a Win2K user do after installing? You have to connect a unpatched system to the net,and spend several hours installing patches and rebooting while hoping nobody will hack your system meanwhile.
;-) Where do YOU want to go today?
Not a big deal since you're on an isolated network or behind a firewall aren't you? Aren't you?? Is it even possible to reinstall Win2k these days on a live network? I've seen people on open networks setting up brand new IIS webservers with a fresh Win2k install that get exploited before they can even finish downloading the patches. It's almost too comical to imagine. And to think, just 5 or 6 years ago we would have all sat back and laughed at the stupid users when they called up tech support and said "My friend says there is an e-mail virus going around, what can I do to stop from getting infected?" Lo and behold, Microsoft brought us this feature that was only a hoax before!!
This test has one serious fault in it that I can see. The tester didn't use a stock W2K disk on a clean system, he used a Sony restore disk, which is a lot different than what Windows 2000 would normally be installed as. A lot of that time installing Windows could be attributed to the restore disk installing all of the myriad programs that come with new computers.
That's not really a fault though, that's reality. When you install Red Hat Linux you're getting 3 cds worth of applications. When you install the Win2k disc you're getting the OS, IE, and Windows Media Player and that's about it. No Office suite or games (well, minesweeper probably which doesn't count). To compare RH Linux and Win2k you need to compare them both fully installed with all their final apps in place which is difficult to do as system application configurations vary considerably on the different platforms.
On the other hand, if you are the guy in his own backyard or garage who has just made a startling discovery about nanotechnology or cold fusion....well, thats not going to happen so don't worry too much about it.
Even if you did nobody would believe you without hard proof. Skulking about pretending the knowledge is too dangerous for mankind to handle at that point is a surefire way to get yourself labelled a quack and a fake.
It would be nice to let the EU know that people who live under these kinds of laws suffer and are scared.
Scared? Someone holding a gun to your head in the middle of town in broad daylight and demanding money is scary. The DMCA is annoying and unjust, but I wouldn't call it scary. What scares me is having over a third of my income confiscated by the federal government for the purpose of wealth redistribution. Now THAT is scary.
I'm reminded of one of the most insightful quotations I've ever heard.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
And the ONLY way to do that is to sway the masses to your cause. The American Revolution happened because enough people got pissed off over England's unfair taxation that the small group of intellectuals was able to convince them to revolt. If the masses are content with going about their daily lives and you gradually increase the restrictions they will not notice them. It's like training any animal. If you try to institute harsh restrictions immediately they will rebel and attack you, but those introduced gradually will become routine and accepted. In this case, the only thing the rebellious intellectuals will find is that they're in jail as being "radicals" or law breakers while the masses cheer that justice is being uphelled.. at least, that's what CNN and Fox News tells them.
Because it IS illegal. Lending a CD to a friend is fair use (an important right that should be protected), "sharing" copyrighted material with one million "friends" is not.
Why not? As long as you're not expecting compensation for the songs then there is no difference. This is something the Supreme Court needs to decide on. At what number does "sharing" of copyrighted material become illegal? 5 friends? 10? 100? 1000? What if you laborously record audio tapes of the CDs for each of your 100 friends and send them out via mail at great cost to you? Does that make it legitimate fair use?
Congress is really showing its true corporate colors these days. It's time for a non-violent overthrow of our leadership come the next elections to sweep on these people that are consistently violating our freedom in exchange for satisfying their corporate masters. Personally my opinion is that in the digital age copyright needs to be seriously rethought of as a government granted monopoly on distribution of data. Perhaps it's time to shrink the number of years you retain exclusive copyright on a work to 5 years. Remember people, there's no inherent god-given right to own "intellectual property". It's an idea created by the governments to help urge artists to develop new works that would eventually be available in the public domain. These days with the way it works these works will never become public domain (Mickey Mouse for example) and will live forever under their corporate ownership. Something has changed horribly since the original ideas of copyright were penned by our Founding Fathers.
Just my 2 cents which are of course flamebait, a troll, overrated, and stupid. Bite me.
You guys completely miss the point: if everyone downloads ISOs, and no one buys distributions anymore, pretty soon there won't be any distributions to buy nor to download anymore. If sales go down, and therefore distribution makers go belly up, who's gonna make the distribution for you to download?
:-)
Debian. At least, I don't think they've become a for-profit corporation yet and as long as they maintain a reliable list of volunteers to mirror the distribution they shouldn't have a problem. So download away!
If you have unmonitored physical access to a machine, you can tell it what drive to boot from, which means you can root the machine by simply booting off a disk of your choice. The point is, don't expect a machine to be secure if untrusted parties have physical access to it.
The autorun CD would be much easier than rebooting the machine and definitely tipping off the user that their machine has been used to do something. You'd also face the possibility of passwords on the CMOS setup screen and the system bootup. Then you face even more frustration when you finally do get it to boot up and it comes up in OpenBSD or Linux instead of Win98 and LILO has a password on it so you can't just go use a different init to bypass it without entering a password. Ho hum. Not to mention you can't pull the drive out physically and swap it because the damn user has padlocked the case cover shut. These crazy users!
Sure, if you have it set up you could go in through the serial port, but who wants to do that? :)
:-) Never underestimate the power of cheese or remote serial console access!
Oh, I dunno, maybe when the machine is 30 miles away, you fatfinger something, OpenSSH dies, and you don't want to drive in at 3am to go reboot your machine at some random colo site?
Look, you may not realize this is a total ripoff, but I installed a network, so I do.
These people are buying T1s for hundreds of dollars a month, then selling us a lousy 3Mbps for $80/mo. That's a rediculous amount of profit!
Are you just trolling or is this some legitimate rant of yours? So, they buy 1.5Mbps worth of bandwidth for $200/month per your statement (in reality they probably pay far less than that) and then sell you twice that amount for $80/month. How is this making a "rediculous" amount of profit? Other than not getting a lot of upstream bandwidth it's a great deal for home users. I can get T-1 download speeds for far less than it would cost me to go out and get an actual commercial T-1 connection through an ISP, not to mention the hassles and delays of getting it installed.
Taking out the battery until you get home?
DAMNIT! You kids are getting more clever every day. Back to the drawing board. How about a phone with a battery you can't remove and that is always on?
The biggest problem here is the mere use of the term consumer.
I prefer the term "voter". As in "The voters chose not to re-elect their Senator..." That reminds me, who is voting for these people anyway!? Every right you lose is a hundred times worse than every bit of pork or $300 tax rebate you get offered. Congressmen should be working on laws that give citizens MORE rights, not less.
Visio's strongpoint is the massive library of shapes and images already out there. It'd take a lot longer to sit there and try to draw all the shapes in Dia when you could just pull out Visio and select a bunch of shapes and connect them together with lines. Too bad Dia can't use Visio shape libraries.
There is a standard, it's detailed in RFC 1459. The trouble is AOL and ICQ spent so much time to instill upon people that ICQ or AIM == online chatting.
I don't get it. Why is AOL trying so hard to block third-party clients like Trillian? I think it's a pretty nice application for what it does in that it lets you use one app for several IM services. If they're really so worried about someone else using their servers and not seeing their advertisements, why not create an open source server that could link into their network and let anyone run one. Then you could connect to the free server and you're not wasting their resources nor should you feel guilty about not being spoon-fed their advertising. In fact, I'm not even sure what people see in this whole instant messaging craze that we didn't already have with IRC. Why not just return to IRC?
This can't be true. Microsoft just spent a whole month focusing on security. There must be some mistake.
It's gotta be fake, they included an 800 number. Unless the first thing it asks for is your credit card number it's probably some scam to sell you a penis enlargement device. Hmm, now that I think about it, Microsoft tech support and penis enlargement scams are pretty similar.
Does anyone know if you can perform an FTP based installation a la FreeBSD? I did a quick search and it looks possible with 7.x, but I couldn't find anything on 8.x or 9.0 beta.
Well, it's supported FTP installation since at least version 6. Just get the network.img and dd it onto a floppy. That's all you should need as long as you have a more common ethernet adapter.