I was shocked to see that Apple was shipping slow 5400 rpm drives on $2000+ computers. On a $500 beater, i understand the logic of cutting $10 off the build cost (and sacrificing 20% of the disk I/O performance) by using a 5400 rpm drive (vs a 7200) , but jesus Apple, you really must be trying to squeeze every last dollar for Jobs's coke habit these days to pull such a boner move.
When the fascists at the NSA and FBI started their massive domestic spying program (Echelon, Carnivore, etc), I decided to make their lives harder and run my own mail server. While they can still snoop on the big boys (yahoo, aol, msn, etc), at least email from my end is safe, and if I send emails to non US based mail servers over SSL, theres at least some chance the fascists cant read the traffic.
Their laptop hard drives have been self erasing for years via head crashes and other catastrophic malfunctions. Absolutely horrible laptop hard drives.
I've always used a linux box as my firewall/router box at home, and I've been running BIND as a caching DNS server. Fortunately this won't affect me, as I totally bypass spamcast's bullshit.
I work for the college of engineering at a major university. Others have mentioned software issues, which are absolutely correct for us as well. The issue I'd like to mention is the fact that most consumer boxes are so poorly configured by the vendor, then further fucked by the owner with spyware, crapware, bullshit tunes, etc, etc,etc, that the machine often isn't stable enough to run half the engineering applications.
We don't have the time to fix every moron's HP vomitbox running Vista (We banned Vista on our Domain due to massive software incompatibility and overall piss poor video/I.O. / and network performance vs XP). Programs like Labview, Autocad, and Arcgis are buggy pieces of shit as it is. Put them on an unstable system, and its just not going to fly.
Maybe for the business school they could get away with having no labs, as the only thing they ever use is M$ office. But for us and probably the CS guys, there are going to be dedicated labs for some years to come.
Verizon has been an epic sewer network for years, and has ignored their spam problem for years. If they want to clean up now (or make a lame attempt to clean up, as most telco's do), fine. It just means less work for iptables at my end.
For those who are sick of Verizon's bullshit, here's my list (no promises this is complete, but it should have most of em) of Verizon's ip blocks.
" I felt a great disturbance in the internet, as if 65535 ip addresses suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. "
for the past 6 months or so, the amount of gmail spam hitting my server has been insane. I've thrown up a pile of filters and what not, but sometimes the only solution is to firewall gmail off for a few weeks until the spam wave dies off.
If they want to treat their network like a sewer, then I have no problem doing the same, and dumping their ip ranges into the firewall with the rest of the spam sewers.
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I'd say their system has been broken for many months now. I resisted doing content filters for a long time on my server, but I finally had to give in when gmail started blasting me (some users were getting 20+ pill spams a day from gmail alone), and ignored (as they always have) all abuse@ emails.
Google has gotten REALLY bad in the past few years about preventing abuse of their systems.
At work, its well known that all past warranty dead drives go to me, as well as ones that work but are too slow and small to be useful. And I make sure the drive in question is definitely wiped:)
For the curious, it usually takes a hot 357 magnum to penetrate and clear most modern drives. 9mm and 45acp either bounce off, or don't exit the drive.
Currently my server filters are stopping 20-30 pill and porn spams coming from gmail themselves. And they just/dev/null all abuse@ emails. This may not sound like much, but all the gmail spams are hammering 2 of my users. Sometimes I firewall off gmail for a week or so to just throttle the flood.
Adobe's products have gotten insanely bloated and crappy the past 5 years, and Apple isn't doing much better either. Quicktime and Itunes love to autorun 8 tons of horsecrap, and Adobe does the same + does a bunch of bullshit activation too. Acrobat Reader has become such a disaster that anyone with a clue has dumped it for Foxit (We just did that at work for 500+ workstations, and we are HEAVY users of the pdf format).
I can see it now. Adobe Quicktime Version 13 Profesional will have 5 autostart services, have mandatory bullshit activation every time it's actively used + background activation every 60 minutes, hijack all your multimedia settings, require 2 gigabytes of disk space and 4 gigabytes of ram, and kill your dog for good measure.
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I was shocked to see that Apple was shipping slow 5400 rpm drives on $2000+ computers. On a $500 beater, i understand the logic of cutting $10 off the build cost (and sacrificing 20% of the disk I/O performance) by using a 5400 rpm drive (vs a 7200) , but jesus Apple, you really must be trying to squeeze every last dollar for Jobs's coke habit these days to pull such a boner move.
When the fascists at the NSA and FBI started their massive domestic spying program (Echelon, Carnivore, etc), I decided to make their lives harder and run my own mail server. While they can still snoop on the big boys (yahoo, aol, msn, etc), at least email from my end is safe, and if I send emails to non US based mail servers over SSL, theres at least some chance the fascists cant read the traffic.
I don't know how much gunpowder it would take, but I'd be willing to donate a 8lb keg of HP38 to do some testing :)
Their laptop hard drives have been self erasing for years via head crashes and other catastrophic malfunctions. Absolutely horrible laptop hard drives.
I've always used a linux box as my firewall /router box at home, and I've been running BIND as a caching DNS server. Fortunately this won't affect me, as I totally bypass spamcast's bullshit.
They've been trying to hammer on the mail server for some time. I firewalled all of their ip blocks as a result.
cause them boys are smoking some mighty potent bullshit over there to be making claims like this.
I work for the college of engineering at a major university. Others have mentioned software issues, which are absolutely correct for us as well. The issue I'd like to mention is the fact that most consumer boxes are so poorly configured by the vendor, then further fucked by the owner with spyware, crapware, bullshit tunes, etc, etc,etc, that the machine often isn't stable enough to run half the engineering applications.
We don't have the time to fix every moron's HP vomitbox running Vista (We banned Vista on our Domain due to massive software incompatibility and overall piss poor video /I.O. / and network performance vs XP). Programs like Labview, Autocad, and Arcgis are buggy pieces of shit as it is. Put them on an unstable system, and its just not going to fly.
Maybe for the business school they could get away with having no labs, as the only thing they ever use is M$ office. But for us and probably the CS guys, there are going to be dedicated labs for some years to come.
FUCK OBAMA.
Goddamn marxist shit stain.
I choose to use open office, even though I get M$ office free through work.
Verizon has been an epic sewer network for years, and has ignored their spam problem for years. If they want to clean up now (or make a lame attempt to clean up, as most telco's do), fine. It just means less work for iptables at my end.
For those who are sick of Verizon's bullshit, here's my list (no promises this is complete, but it should have most of em) of Verizon's ip blocks.
206.46.0.0/16
66.12.0.0/14
207.68.0.0/17
71.96.0.0/11
72.64.0.0/11
72.42.0.0/18
71.160.0.0/15
71.162.0.0/16
96.224.0.0/11
98.108.0.0/14
98.112.0.0/13
68.160.0.0/14
162.84.0.0/16
162.83.0.0/16
151.204.0.0/15
138.88.0.0/21
66.171.0.0/16
66.14.128.0/17
151.201.0.0/16
138.89.0.0/16
141.149.0.0/16
141.150.0.0/15
141.152.0.0/14
141.156.0.0/15
141.158.0.0/16
68.160.192.0/18
68.161.192.0/18
66.14.0.0/17
151.196.0.0/14
151.200.0.0/14
151.204.0.0/15
129.44.0.0/16
138.88.0.0/16
64.222.0.0/15
68.236.0.0/14
70.104.0.0/13
70.16.0.0/13
71.96.0.0/11
209.158.0.0/16
209.159.0.0/19
71.160.0.0/11
173.64.0.0/12
70.192.0.0/11
66.174.0.0/16
75.224.0.0/12
75.240.0.0/13
75.192.0.0/10
97.0.0.0/10
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DDR3 is still 5-10 times the cost of DDR2, and the performance gain is not big (maybe 10% at best) on overall system performance.
" I felt a great disturbance in the internet, as if 65535 ip addresses suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened. "
iptables -A spam -s 134.17.0.0/16 -j DROP
jokes on you moron. I just grabbed the file you linked, and its not the RTM version.
md5sum on your link is 043391fb959d5623bd42ea376452f203. RTM is BB25707C919DD835A9D9706B5725AF58.
I've tested it on 9 different boxes, and it works fine.
Disable any download managers you might be running, as I limit apache to 1 connection per IP.
http://phb.btfh.net/temp2/
for the past 6 months or so, the amount of gmail spam hitting my server has been insane. I've thrown up a pile of filters and what not, but sometimes the only solution is to firewall gmail off for a few weeks until the spam wave dies off.
If they want to treat their network like a sewer, then I have no problem doing the same, and dumping their ip ranges into the firewall with the rest of the spam sewers.
I'd say their system has been broken for many months now. I resisted doing content filters for a long time on my server, but I finally had to give in when gmail started blasting me (some users were getting 20+ pill spams a day from gmail alone), and ignored (as they always have) all abuse@ emails.
Google has gotten REALLY bad in the past few years about preventing abuse of their systems.
At work, its well known that all past warranty dead drives go to me, as well as ones that work but are too slow and small to be useful. And I make sure the drive in question is definitely wiped :)
For the curious, it usually takes a hot 357 magnum to penetrate and clear most modern drives. 9mm and 45acp either bounce off, or don't exit the drive.
Currently my server filters are stopping 20-30 pill and porn spams coming from gmail themselves. And they just /dev/null all abuse@ emails. This may not sound like much, but all the gmail spams are hammering 2 of my users. Sometimes I firewall off gmail for a week or so to just throttle the flood.
Webmail providers suck ass.
Thats ok, I'll shoot back :) And I promise that I'm a far better shot then any Hollywood lawyer :)
As a company that host spammers, and threatens lawsuits (cartoonies) against anti spammers, I can only hope the crooks stole the spam servers as well.
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=cihost.com
Adobe's products have gotten insanely bloated and crappy the past 5 years, and Apple isn't doing much better either. Quicktime and Itunes love to autorun 8 tons of horsecrap, and Adobe does the same + does a bunch of bullshit activation too. Acrobat Reader has become such a disaster that anyone with a clue has dumped it for Foxit (We just did that at work for 500+ workstations, and we are HEAVY users of the pdf format).
I can see it now. Adobe Quicktime Version 13 Profesional will have 5 autostart services, have mandatory bullshit activation every time it's actively used + background activation every 60 minutes, hijack all your multimedia settings, require 2 gigabytes of disk space and 4 gigabytes of ram, and kill your dog for good measure.
sadly I do, its called the USA.