People who want a GUI. While PostgreSQL and MySQL may be technically superior, none of them provides an easy to use database editor yet, especially not if you don't have a privileged account in the db ("create database"). (Think of M$ converts looking for a replacement to M$ Access). There are some projects to provide an easier frontend for PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, but none of them are really ready for prime time yet.
They are the same codebase, but unfortunately the codedrop to OpenOffice was incomplete. e.g. the Adabas database is missing because it was licensed from a 3rd party, which didn't agree to open the code.
While OpenOffice is preferrable for most things, there are a couple of people who need StarOffice until there are free replacements for the missing parts.
I can confirm they're the same thing (they keep spamming me using both addresses), and I'd bet real money that "Christina Hall" (TrafficMagnet) and "Vanessa Lindner" (TrafficBBS) are the same person.
Unfortunately, they've managed to find an ignorant uplink for both aliases.
Let me guess, they didn't respond at all. trafficmagnet.net does this all the time; I'm receiving the same piece of spam about once a month for virtually all domains I own as well as a couple of other domains I've never heard of, apparently because someone linked to my email address.
I've tried contacting them and demanding $1000 according to my terms of service, but they don't react, and neither does their uplink -- and since their whois information is fake, there's noone to sue.:/
If you are getting 40 spams a day, you are doing something stupid.
No, not necessarily. I get about 80 spams a day, and I've tracked most of them down to a couple of things:
The bug-gnu-utils list is gated to spamnet, formerly known as usenet. While I post to bug-gnu-utils with an obfuscated addresses these days, I can't prevent people from sending bug reports to bug-gnu-utils and Cc'ing me -- thereby making my address visible to spambots harvesting spamnet.
Address mentioned in public places by someone else, such as "If you're seeing that bug in the Red Hat packages only, contact their packager at..."
Address listed on a website (feedback requests, without obfuscating the address to make it easier for users) - this is also what generates a lot of spam on our security contact address
All of those aren't stupid things to do - but spammers make use of them nevertheless.
Pointing them to my SMTP server's terms of service and trying to claim payment usually doesn't generate a response at all. [And if you can't afford a lawyer, trying to take a spammer to court won't do much good]
Actually, the only spammer ever to react to one turned out to be a 14 year old kid who fell for a "make money fast, we assure you it's legal" scam, and I don't really want to make a victim pay more than they have.
The one and only good thing about monopolist telcos - this is the sole reason why you don't usually see any spam sent from a DSL user in.de.
We should just give Microsoft what they always wanted - replace the internet with MSN so spammers can be permanently shut off... And those who oppose Bill Gates, and those who oppose Bush, and Linux users... Oh, wait...;)
I find it disheartening that it's impossible to maintain a business with integrity and vision in the face of greed.
Nah, it's only impossible if the company is public.
It's not impossible, just hard. Red Hat still manages it (at least right now). I agree that going public was a mistake, though.
The stock market is completely screwed up these days. Instead of being a way for people to invest in a company that they think deserves support, it has become little more than a government-regulated lottery.
True - a lottery with many spammers (buy this ticket^H^H^H^H^H^Hstock to make money fast!) backing it.
if you was in charge of a Linux software co., wouldn't you wake up each morning wishing you could get the big manufacturers to pre-install Linux instead of Windows?
If you rely on retail sales, definitely not. Someone who buys a box with Linux preloaded will usually not pay for a box containing the same OS, and a company preloading your distribution won't necessarily pay you anything (unless you make a proprietary distribution. Yuck.)
Please note that Pensacola is NOT a beta of the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux. It's a beta of the Red Hat Linux 7.2-based Enterprise product, tuned for high-end hardware and high load. It's not what you want to try on your home box and won't install on anything smaller than an i686.
A beta of the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux will be released when it's ready (we don't preannounce releases).
No. Pensacola has nothing whatsoever to do with the next release of Red Hat Linux. It's a beta of the enterprise edition of Red Hat Linux 7.2, tuned for high-end hardware and high load. It's not what you typically want on your home box.
As for the next version, a beta will be released when it's ready. We don't preannounce releases.
Now we move to the Internet parallel. You have signed up for an Internet Address. The Internet is public. I will repeat this. The Internet is PUBLIC. Therefore people on the Internet can determine your address, just as much as I can browse the white pages looking for Real World home addresses. Depending on how much information you have submitted through various channels to the Internet, people may have put together certain profiles about you. Just as in real life, they will determine which advertisements are best suited to you, and make sure to send them to your PUBLIC address.
Not really. I receive loads of pr0n spam, and I'm actually one of the guys who are seriously offended by this sort of crap. I also make a point of publishing the fact that I don't want spam in my.signature, and nobody "targets" that.
And there's another difference you're overlooking. "Real" junk mail doesn't cost the recipient anything (other than the time to throw it away), while many people actually pay for their net connectivity by volume or by duration, both of which causes them to pay for receiving spam.
And, of course, at least some countries have laws allowing for "no junk mail" stickers on mail boxes, and disallowing delivery of junk mail to those. This actually works; I've received only one piece of junk snailmail this year [and its sender won't dare to do that again], in contrast to roughly 400 spam mails per day.
I propose a simple and effective email charge system, where bulk mailers are FORCED to pay an appropriate amount in order to mail to a few thousand, tens of thousand, etc people.
If it's used to compensate the recipients for their loss, it may actually be fair.
Restricting people from advertising their products to PUBLIC networks and PUBLIC addresses on those networks goes against everything our country was founded on.
Not quite. It has never been legal to steal, and spam is stealing bandwidth and connectivity cost. A rough equivalent to stealing bandwidth by spamming is stealing capacity of a bus or train - so if you think spammers should be protected by the constitution, you're implying that people who ride a train/bus/plane or any other piece of PUBLIC transportation without a ticket should be protected, as well.
If only we could wire this up to remotely do the same to Bill gates every time Windows crashes...
Actually I'm glad we can't... If we could, I'm quite sure I'd actually get and install Windows, and I don't want to hurt my beloved computer that badly.;)
I receive roughly 500 spam messages a day, partially because my email address is and has to be public (I want to receive bug reports and patches for my software), and partially because I'm on a couple of mailing lists, some of which are even gated to spamnet (formerly known as usenet, yet another formerly valuable resource spammers managed to destroy completely).
Furthermore, since I'm in Europe, I've had to pay for my net connectivity (yes, including receiving spam) per minute until June last year [and people outside the big cities still don't have the option not to pay per minute].
I'd say in total, spammers have cost me more than 200 hours and roughly $100 just for the year 2001.
And since laws aren't sufficient, there's not too much I can do about it ("Sure you can sue them for $500, but you'll have to cover court and attorney fees, approximatley $50000.")
Furthermore, some spam is really disgusting - e.g. last week I received a piece of spam just this morning that contained a meta refresh tag that would have redirected me to a porn site automatically if I were using some stupid HTML email client.
I reported them to the police for probably sending pornographic material to children (because spam will always get to kids), and their response was along the lines of "just hit delete".
I'm usually strictly opposed to "vengeance spam" because it hurts the involved routers and ISPs, but if this guy thinks spam is innovative (and tries to push laws based on that), maybe the only way to LART him is to get him singed up to some more spam lists. I wonder how innovative this ***** will find his mailbox being swamped with 500 spams a day.
Please post a mailto: link to his address in clear form...
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CUPS 1.1.14 is included, and Qt, KDE and wine are compiled with libcups support.
And if someone is looking at your screen, he'll know your password...
Transforming mouse events to *s while "typing" doesn't work.
Right - but that doesn't take care of
creating tables and inserting data, does it?
Unfortunately, for a majority of users
"if it can't be done by point and click, it can't be done".
People who want a GUI.
While PostgreSQL and MySQL may be technically superior, none of them
provides an easy to use database editor yet, especially not if
you don't have a privileged account in the db ("create database").
(Think of M$ converts looking for a replacement to M$ Access).
There are some projects to provide an easier frontend for PostgreSQL and/or MySQL,
but none of them are really ready for prime time yet.
They are the same codebase, but unfortunately the codedrop to OpenOffice was incomplete.
e.g. the Adabas database is missing because it was licensed from a 3rd party, which didn't agree to open the code.
While OpenOffice is preferrable for most things,
there are a couple of people who need StarOffice until
there are free replacements for the missing parts.
I can confirm they're the same thing (they keep spamming me using both addresses), and I'd bet real money that "Christina Hall" (TrafficMagnet) and "Vanessa Lindner" (TrafficBBS) are the same person.
Unfortunately, they've managed to find an ignorant uplink for both aliases.
Let me guess, they didn't respond at all.
:/
trafficmagnet.net does this all the time; I'm receiving the same piece of spam about once a month for virtually all domains I own as well as a couple of other domains I've never heard of, apparently because someone linked to my email address.
I've tried contacting them and demanding $1000 according to my terms of service, but they don't react, and neither does their uplink -- and since their whois information is fake, there's noone to sue.
No, not necessarily. I get about 80 spams a day, and I've tracked most of them down to a couple of things:
All of those aren't stupid things to do - but spammers make use of them nevertheless.
Pointing them to my SMTP server's terms of service and trying to claim payment usually doesn't generate a response at all. [And if you can't afford a lawyer, trying to take a spammer to court won't do much good]
Actually, the only spammer ever to react to one turned out to be a 14 year old kid who fell for a "make money fast, we assure you it's legal" scam, and I don't really want to make a victim pay more than they have.
The one and only good thing about monopolist telcos - this is the sole reason why you don't usually see any spam sent from a DSL user in .de.
;)
We should just give Microsoft what they always wanted - replace the internet with MSN so spammers can be permanently shut off... And those who oppose Bill Gates, and those who oppose Bush, and Linux users... Oh, wait...
No problems whatsoever here, and our rawhide users haven't found many issues with it either.
By any chance, are you using gcc 3.0.x?
That's broken.
just curious where you had heard that it's compatible with gcc 3.x?
It works perfectly with recent CVS versions of gcc 3.1.
3.0.4 is reported to work as well, but the whole 3.0.x branch of gcc isn't too good.
There is one major difference: In KDE; you can turn off all the eyecandy, so everyone gets what he likes.
I find it disheartening that it's impossible to maintain a business with integrity and vision in the face of greed.
Nah, it's only impossible if the company is public.
It's not impossible, just hard.
Red Hat still manages it (at least right now).
I agree that going public was a mistake, though.
The stock market is completely screwed up these days. Instead of being a way for people to invest in a company that they think deserves support, it has become little more than a government-regulated lottery.
True - a lottery with many spammers (buy this ticket^H^H^H^H^H^Hstock to make money fast!) backing it.
if you was in charge of a Linux software co., wouldn't you wake up each morning wishing you could get the big manufacturers to pre-install Linux instead of Windows?
If you rely on retail sales, definitely not.
Someone who buys a box with Linux preloaded will usually not pay for a box containing the same OS, and a company preloading your distribution won't necessarily pay you anything (unless you make a proprietary distribution. Yuck.)
A lot of applications that run on kde2 are not yet ported to kde3.
This is true, but it's also trivial to do. On the API side, the differences between KDE 2.x and 3.x are minor.
For Gnome2; I do not know much about it, but it might still be a release for developers.
It totally breaks the old API, so expect to wait for a long time until applications have been ported.
Please note that Pensacola is NOT a beta of the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux. It's a beta of the Red Hat Linux 7.2-based Enterprise product, tuned for high-end hardware and high load. It's not what you want to try on your home box and won't install on anything smaller than an i686.
A beta of the upcoming release of Red Hat Linux will be released when it's ready (we don't preannounce releases).
No. Pensacola has nothing whatsoever to do with the next release of Red Hat Linux.
It's a beta of the enterprise edition of Red Hat Linux 7.2, tuned for high-end hardware and high load.
It's not what you typically want on your home box.
As for the next version, a beta will be released when it's ready. We don't preannounce releases.
What do they hope to gain from having someone telling IBM "you're evil" every time they violate antitrust laws, without the power to do anything else?
Oh, wait, IBM didn't put as much money into the governments as Microsoft...
I bet $150 Hurd will not be released this year..
;)
Place your bets here!
And place your offers to bribe the Hurd release people here.
Now we move to the Internet parallel. You have signed up for an Internet Address. The Internet is public. I will repeat this. The Internet is PUBLIC. Therefore people on the Internet can determine your address, just as much as I can browse the white pages looking for Real World home addresses. Depending on how much information you have submitted through various channels to the Internet, people may have put together certain profiles about you. Just as in real life, they will determine which advertisements are best suited to you, and make sure to send them to your PUBLIC address.
.signature, and nobody "targets" that.
Not really.
I receive loads of pr0n spam, and I'm actually one of the guys who are seriously offended by this sort of crap. I also make a point of publishing the fact that I don't want spam in my
And there's another difference you're overlooking. "Real" junk mail doesn't cost the recipient anything (other than the time to throw it away), while many people actually pay for their net connectivity by volume or by duration, both of which causes them to pay for receiving spam.
And, of course, at least some countries have laws allowing for "no junk mail" stickers on mail boxes, and disallowing delivery of junk mail to those. This actually works; I've received only one piece of junk snailmail this year [and its sender won't dare to do that again], in contrast to roughly 400 spam mails per day.
I propose a simple and effective email charge system, where bulk mailers are FORCED to pay an appropriate amount in order to mail to a few thousand, tens of thousand, etc people.
If it's used to compensate the recipients for their loss, it may actually be fair.
Restricting people from advertising their products to PUBLIC networks and PUBLIC addresses on those networks goes against everything our country was founded on.
Not quite. It has never been legal to steal, and spam is stealing bandwidth and connectivity cost.
A rough equivalent to stealing bandwidth by spamming is stealing capacity of a bus or train - so if you think spammers should be protected by the constitution, you're implying that people who ride a train/bus/plane or any other piece of PUBLIC transportation without a ticket should be protected, as well.
If only we could wire this up to remotely do the same to Bill gates every time Windows crashes...
;)
Actually I'm glad we can't... If we could, I'm quite
sure I'd actually get and install Windows, and I don't want
to hurt my beloved computer that badly.
Consider the situation for someone else.
I receive roughly 500 spam messages a day, partially because my email address is and has to be public (I want to receive bug reports and patches for my software), and partially because I'm on a couple of mailing lists, some of which are even gated to spamnet (formerly known as usenet, yet another formerly valuable resource spammers managed to destroy completely).
Furthermore, since I'm in Europe, I've had to pay for my net connectivity (yes, including receiving spam) per minute until June last year [and people outside the big cities still don't have the option not to pay per minute].
I'd say in total, spammers have cost me more than 200 hours and roughly $100 just for the year 2001.
And since laws aren't sufficient, there's not too much I can do about it ("Sure you can sue them for $500, but you'll have to cover court and attorney fees, approximatley $50000.")
Furthermore, some spam is really disgusting - e.g. last week I received a piece of spam just this morning that contained a meta refresh tag that would have redirected me to a porn site automatically if I were using some stupid HTML email client.
I reported them to the police for probably sending pornographic material to children (because spam will always get to kids), and their response was along the lines of "just hit delete".
Use both.
OMNI is supported directly in ESP GhostScript, a version of ghostscript maintained primarily by the CUPS maintainers.
From the list:
;)
MTC-00001595 0001 root@usdoj.gov
MTC-00019283 0001 root@ut6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000209 0002 root@wt4.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000673 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000252 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000290 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00002095 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00001577 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00002191 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00009661 0001 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000292 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000301 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000669 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00001125 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00001791 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00002038 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00002499 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00002523 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00002671 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00002732 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00004479 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00004530 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00004581 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00004710 0002 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00001067 0003 root@wt6.usdoj.gov
MTC-00000127 0001 Root@wtb.usdoj.gov
MTC-00025815 0003 root@wtg.usdoj.gov
Guess they're counting mailer-daemons or the likes.
I'm usually strictly opposed to "vengeance spam" because it hurts the involved routers and ISPs, but if this guy thinks spam is innovative (and tries to push laws based on that), maybe the only way to LART him is to get him singed up to some more spam lists. I wonder how innovative this ***** will find his mailbox being swamped with 500 spams a day.
Please post a mailto: link to his address in clear form...