I live in Belgium and built my own PVR. The biggest problems recording shows over here:
- getting decent program information (no XMLTV service available so you have to use a grabber and the information isn't always accurate) - most stations decide on the fly to change their schedule/programming because of sport-events and other stuff - most channels have no notion of starting on time so I have to program the PVR to start recording 5 minutes before the indicated time and record for an extra 10 minutes afterwards.... and still you get shows that aren't recorded completely.
As the original poster said; it's all about convenience. I can watch 1h worth of live TV in 2/3rds of the time when it suits me. I usually get home late from work so it saves me time and allows me to watch when I can.
Solaris still has root but since Solaris 8 or 9 they have RBAC, which is a bit like sudo. Role-Based-Access-Control. You assume a roll which gives you extra priviliges.
In Trusted Solaris they also have root but since this is a high grade security OS, root is not god. You have labels (top-secret, restricted etc... iirc). So you might have root-access on a low level label and not being able to do anything.
One of the best solutions to this I have seen is KMail, this displays HTML mail as text and you can click a button to then render as HTML. This doesn't stop the spam, but does give you the abaility not to see many images you rather wouldn't at 10am on a Monday morning and allows you to stop web bugs (HTML code in images which can be used to indicate successful message delivery).
So how is that different to:
- Mozilla: display as ASCII, simplified HTML, HTML - Evolution: do no load images of the web...
Have a look at Ifile (http://www.nongnu.org/ifile); while I'm only interested in spam/no-spam filtering, I once tested this filter to filter a mailing-list. It did a pretty good job.
this cmd is disactivated on a lot of servers cause it could be/was being used by spammers to find valid addresses. The same could be said for finger-servers. Nice to DOS and nice to use to find valid addresses.
Wanna fight SPAM? Punish spammers hard, punish and close open relays, implement SMTP authentication (at least for external networks)... you'll never be able to banish SPAM completely, but why make it easy on the assholes?
It's also amazing that Microsoft is allowed to circumvent anything they want. It's 10 times the monopoly AOL is. Sure, it would be nice to see AOL opening the IM protocol, but even better if MS opened the Office document formats.
I live in Europe and know more people that use MSN than ICQ or AIM. On the other hand, everybody I know uses MS Windows.
And can you swap CPU's, memory, IO-cards without shutting down the system? An 104-way SF15K cannot be compared to an 4-way x86 box. No comparison. If you want to compare it to something equal, take an IBM mainframe and then talk about the price.
The last couple of times I flew to the US (with US companies), I always had choice between chicken and pasta. No need to say you don't want pork, they don't serve it...
The problem wouldn't have been that Sun would have had to pay license fees to TrollTech, as someone said, they're not that much. I think the problem is that ISV's writing applications for Solaris/KDE/QT, would also have been forced to pay license fees to TrollTech. This is from the QT lisencing page:
Re-licensing note: The standard Qt license does not permit distribution of Qt-based software which allow non-licensed end users to create programs that use Qt.
Maybe Sun could've negotiated a special license with QT (maybe they tried and it didn't work out, who knowns...). I guess it was just easier to use Gtk+.
Similarly, I surely hope I wouldn't be able to call my new product "Sun Network Management Administrator" (even though sun is a dictionary word). I would expect to be able to sell "Sun Dishwasher Liquid" (although that would be a poor name for a network management system) or to make a movie called "Solaris".
There would be a difference: Sun stands for Stanford University Network and is the name of the company. Thus calling it Sun Network Management Adminstrator would be using another company's name. They aren't calling it Microsoft or MS but a generic word: Windows. Calling it Solaris blablabla would be OK. Calling it Sun Solaris blablabla again would be confusing. Just run winver and you'll see it's Microsoft (R) Windows. Every application I've seen says Microsoft blablabla. MS just doesn't have a case
Go to bugzilla, login/create an account and vote for this bug. The more votes, the more attention it will get in getting fixed in one of the next releases. There's an image attached for the image-block UI and it looks promissing.
I use Mozilla on all platforms I'm running but combine it with bannerfilter on squid. Mozilla doesn't support regexps yet for picture-blocking but is host-based until they fix bug 78104. Disk cache is switched on though as I'm the only user on my system so I don't see this as a possible security problem. Cookies are selectively permitted and pop-ups are blocked. Security is imho the biggest reason to use Mozilla in stead of IE.
Uh, so they are suing because MS might do something?
They arent suing anybody.. it's an investigation. They got some complaints from competitors (Nokia e.a.) that MS is using their standard tactics of bullying, screwing with standards etc. and they're investigating. You'd rather that they wait untill MS extually succeeds in pulling the same thing they did with the browser and then get this joke of a sentence they got from the last trial?
Don't see how this would apply here. There's no interference. The receiver of the mail still has the last word on what happens with his mail. It's just another way of filtering mail but not based on regexps on subject, sender etc... but on the likelyness of being junk. For the moment, the filter only flags mails, it doesn't even delete/move them. At most. it will only move mail to certain folders (if you like the Trash folder). I use Ifile and procmail to filter my mail. What would be next? A law prohibiting the use of filters on mail? I guess spammers would like to see a law that forces me to look at spam but I don't see this happen.
I've heard reports that some spammers are fine tuning their emails to just miss the SpamAssasin regexs, and stuff like the Mozilla bayesian mail filters only react to what you get, the Razor reacts to what 180,000+ people get.
I've used SpamAssassin for a while and it did a pretty good job. The biggest problem indeed seems that spammers try to bypass SA by tuning there messages. A couple of months ago I switched to Bayesian filtering (using Ifile). The results are remarkeble. With the spam I harvested (Hotmail and Yahoo do wonders at that), I was able to setup a decent starting database and with every received mail/spam, it gets updated. I correct false positives/negatives but this happens rarely (i.e. less than with SA). The fact that the database is setup from your mails alone is IMHO a good thing. It's impossible to tune a mail to bypass 1000's of different databases. With Razor2, I've found that legit newslists were being reported as spam. Still, the "grading" system should solve that. I wish SA would start using Bayesian filtering as well (I'd give it a high score). I've started testing Bayesian filtering in Mozilla (was only turned on a couple of days ago) as well and it looks promissing. Razor2 is a good tool but it also has it's limitations. Living in a small country, I sometimes get "local" spam which rarely is in Razor. Bayesian filtering is a bliss in that case.
When the EU has ruled against US product before (growth hormone is not allowed in beef sold in the EU) the US claims it is a restraint of trade and raises it to the EU.
This is IMHO not a restraint of trade. It just says US companies have to follow EU laws and rules, the same rules European companies have to apply to. I'm sure their are US rules (about safety of products e.g.) that force non-US companies to produce/ship different products than those sold on their home market. US companies can export their beef, as long as it's growth hormone free. Where's the restriction? You apply to the rule.... you get to export it to the EU.
CKK's ruling in the US is just a joke. I hope the EU will do a better job.
Indeed, Netscape 4.x was released after MS started bundling IE with their monopoly OS. Netscape didn't have the money to start from scratch and had to patch up an ugly, outdated browser. It came to a point where they realized they couldn't go on like this (without money) so they decided to try the opensource way. After trying for a while, luckily the developers realized it would be easier to start from scratch. I agree that NS4.x is a lousy piece of software, but just think how that happened. They didn't have the money once MS decided to kill them by bundling IE in their OS. And MS had plenty of cash to further develop IE. Owning +90% of the desktop market helps a lot in killing potential competitors.
I've you read my response, I said they got paid for commercial use. Ever tried IE on Solaris? It's an even bigger memory hog then Netscape 4.7x or Netscape 6.x/7.0 or Mozilla. I'm not saying that Netscape 4.7x was a good product. Until 3.x, it was pretty good (for it's time) but when MS started choking them buy giving IE away for free by bundling it into their monopoly OS, I'm guessing, Netscape ran out of air (just as MS had hoped) and couldn't really do decent R&D.
Does anyone remember the Windows Sound System? Microsoft tried to make a sound card at one point in time. Creative didn't go anywhere or sue. Microsoft couldn't bundle the card with their OS...
Perhaps if Netscape had kept up instead of whining to the feds they could have beat Microsoft. If you choke somebody so they don't have any R&D money left to develop the thing, what else can you do? Remember Netscape used to sell their browser for commercial use. Microsoft just bundled it with their OS (for which you have to pay so they got $$$ anyway).
I mean, suing a company because they happen to be more popular? Where in the lawsuit is it mentionned that they are suing over popularity? You need a reality check.
I just was wondering. All surveys show IE has 95% of the browser market (based on # of hits on popular site I guess) but does that differ for/.? Do/. readers use other browsers/OS'ses?
Hey CmdrTaco, how about some figures for/. Check your logs and tell us.
I used spambouncer before discovering spamassassin (www.spamassassin.org). Spambouncer requires rules, rules, rules to block all unwanted mail AND to not to block all wanted mail. IMHO, spamassassin uses a much better system of built in rules to check for spam, including Vipul's Razor. It can easily be adjusted: give weigth to certain checks or set a higher/lower threshold for spam-marking. Spambouncer requires procmail rules which are much harder to setup. Spamassassin made everything much easier; in the last couple of months, it blocked 1 mail which it shouldn't have and also didn't block 1 it should have.
Mozilla is not a weapon to fight a browser war, it's a weapon to fight a standards war. Fight MS in following the W3C standards.
All the discussions about IE looking, feeling, being better then any other browser don't matter to me. IE is MS's tool to internet domination through bad standards support and proprietary tags. This is what we should be fighting against. Educate web-developers not to take the easy road but follow the standards, drop IE-only tags, use validator.w3.org. If I can do it for my personal pages, they should be able to do it too. --- "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
"People say you buy a Sun server and get Solaris for free. No, you don't, The hardware is free as far as I'm concerned; we just charge $200,000 for Solaris." - Ed Zander
Sun's trying to move from a hardware company to a service provider. Just look at all the software products and services they have to offer right now. The only problem is that their customers haven't realised this yet and still consider it a hardware vendor. I've heared people saying they were amazed about the products/services (SunONE etc...) that Sun has after attending presentations... they just didn't know.
I guess Sun is trying hard to change that perception and is using Solaris 9 to wake people up.
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I do the same thing; I usually restore from /dev/random. If you restore long enough, at some point you'll get the data you wanted :-)
Did video recorders somehow pass you by?
I live in Belgium and built my own PVR. The biggest problems recording shows over here:
- getting decent program information (no XMLTV service available so you have to use a grabber and the information isn't always accurate)
- most stations decide on the fly to change their schedule/programming because of sport-events and other stuff
- most channels have no notion of starting on time so I have to program the PVR to start recording 5 minutes before the indicated time and record for an extra 10 minutes afterwards.... and still you get shows that aren't recorded completely.
As the original poster said; it's all about convenience. I can watch 1h worth of live TV in 2/3rds of the time when it suits me. I usually get home late from work so it saves me time and allows me to watch when I can.
Solaris still has root but since Solaris 8 or 9 they have RBAC, which is a bit like sudo. Role-Based-Access-Control. You assume a roll which gives you extra priviliges.
In Trusted Solaris they also have root but since this is a high grade security OS, root is not god. You have labels (top-secret, restricted etc... iirc). So you might have root-access on a low level label and not being able to do anything.
So how is that different to:
- Mozilla: display as ASCII, simplified HTML, HTML
- Evolution: do no load images of the web...
Have a look at Ifile (http://www.nongnu.org/ifile); while I'm only interested in spam/no-spam filtering, I once tested this filter to filter a mailing-list. It did a pretty good job.
this cmd is disactivated on a lot of servers cause it could be/was being used by spammers to find valid addresses.
The same could be said for finger-servers. Nice to DOS and nice to use to find valid addresses.
Wanna fight SPAM? Punish spammers hard, punish and close open relays, implement SMTP authentication (at least for external networks)... you'll never be able to banish SPAM completely, but why make it easy on the assholes?
It's also amazing that Microsoft is allowed to circumvent anything they want. It's 10 times the monopoly AOL is. Sure, it would be nice to see AOL opening the IM protocol, but even better if MS opened the Office document formats.
I live in Europe and know more people that use MSN than ICQ or AIM. On the other hand, everybody I know uses MS Windows.
So now, who has a monopoly where?
And can you swap CPU's, memory, IO-cards without shutting down the system? An 104-way SF15K cannot be compared to an 4-way x86 box. No comparison. If you want to compare it to something equal, take an IBM mainframe and then talk about the price.
The last couple of times I flew to the US (with US companies), I always had choice between chicken and pasta. No need to say you don't want pork, they don't serve it...
The problem wouldn't have been that Sun would have had to pay license fees to TrollTech, as someone said, they're not that much.
I think the problem is that ISV's writing applications for Solaris/KDE/QT, would also have been forced to pay license fees to TrollTech.
This is from the QT lisencing page:
Re-licensing note: The standard Qt license does not permit distribution of Qt-based software which allow non-licensed end users to create programs that use Qt.
Maybe Sun could've negotiated a special license with QT (maybe they tried and it didn't work out, who knowns...). I guess it was just easier to use Gtk+.
There would be a difference: Sun stands for Stanford University Network and is the name of the company. Thus calling it Sun Network Management Adminstrator would be using another company's name.
They aren't calling it Microsoft or MS but a generic word: Windows. Calling it Solaris blablabla would be OK. Calling it Sun Solaris blablabla again would be confusing.
Just run winver and you'll see it's Microsoft (R) Windows. Every application I've seen says Microsoft blablabla.
MS just doesn't have a case
Go to bugzilla, login/create an account and vote for this bug. The more votes, the more attention it will get in getting fixed in one of the next releases. There's an image attached for the image-block UI and it looks promissing.
I use Mozilla on all platforms I'm running but combine it with bannerfilter on squid. Mozilla doesn't support regexps yet for picture-blocking but is host-based until they fix bug 78104. Disk cache is switched on though as I'm the only user on my system so I don't see this as a possible security problem.
Cookies are selectively permitted and pop-ups are blocked.
Security is imho the biggest reason to use Mozilla in stead of IE.
They arent suing anybody.. it's an investigation. They got some complaints from competitors (Nokia e.a.) that MS is using their standard tactics of bullying, screwing with standards etc. and they're investigating. You'd rather that they wait untill MS extually succeeds in pulling the same thing they did with the browser and then get this joke of a sentence they got from the last trial?
Don't see how this would apply here. There's no interference. The receiver of the mail still has the last word on what happens with his mail. It's just another way of filtering mail but not based on regexps on subject, sender etc... but on the likelyness of being junk.
For the moment, the filter only flags mails, it doesn't even delete/move them. At most. it will only move mail to certain folders (if you like the Trash folder).
I use Ifile and procmail to filter my mail. What would be next? A law prohibiting the use of filters on mail?
I guess spammers would like to see a law that forces me to look at spam but I don't see this happen.
I've used SpamAssassin for a while and it did a pretty good job. The biggest problem indeed seems that spammers try to bypass SA by tuning there messages.
A couple of months ago I switched to Bayesian filtering (using Ifile). The results are remarkeble. With the spam I harvested (Hotmail and Yahoo do wonders at that), I was able to setup a decent starting database and with every received mail/spam, it gets updated. I correct false positives/negatives but this happens rarely (i.e. less than with SA). The fact that the database is setup from your mails alone is IMHO a good thing. It's impossible to tune a mail to bypass 1000's of different databases. With Razor2, I've found that legit newslists were being reported as spam. Still, the "grading" system should solve that.
I wish SA would start using Bayesian filtering as well (I'd give it a high score).
I've started testing Bayesian filtering in Mozilla (was only turned on a couple of days ago) as well and it looks promissing.
Razor2 is a good tool but it also has it's limitations. Living in a small country, I sometimes get "local" spam which rarely is in Razor. Bayesian filtering is a bliss in that case.
This is IMHO not a restraint of trade. It just says US companies have to follow EU laws and rules, the same rules European companies have to apply to. I'm sure their are US rules (about safety of products e.g.) that force non-US companies to produce/ship different products than those sold on their home market.
US companies can export their beef, as long as it's growth hormone free. Where's the restriction? You apply to the rule.... you get to export it to the EU.
CKK's ruling in the US is just a joke. I hope the EU will do a better job.
Indeed, Netscape 4.x was released after MS started bundling IE with their monopoly OS. Netscape didn't have the money to start from scratch and had to patch up an ugly, outdated browser.
It came to a point where they realized they couldn't go on like this (without money) so they decided to try the opensource way. After trying for a while, luckily the developers realized it would be easier to start from scratch.
I agree that NS4.x is a lousy piece of software, but just think how that happened. They didn't have the money once MS decided to kill them by bundling IE in their OS. And MS had plenty of cash to further develop IE. Owning +90% of the desktop market helps a lot in killing potential competitors.
I've you read my response, I said they got paid for commercial use.
Ever tried IE on Solaris? It's an even bigger memory hog then Netscape 4.7x or Netscape 6.x/7.0 or Mozilla.
I'm not saying that Netscape 4.7x was a good product. Until 3.x, it was pretty good (for it's time) but when MS started choking them buy giving IE away for free by bundling it into their monopoly OS, I'm guessing, Netscape ran out of air (just as MS had hoped) and couldn't really do decent R&D.
Does anyone remember the Windows Sound System? Microsoft tried to make a sound card at one point in time. Creative didn't go anywhere or sue.
Microsoft couldn't bundle the card with their OS...
Perhaps if Netscape had kept up instead of whining to the feds they could have beat Microsoft.
If you choke somebody so they don't have any R&D money left to develop the thing, what else can you do? Remember Netscape used to sell their browser for commercial use. Microsoft just bundled it with their OS (for which you have to pay so they got $$$ anyway).
I mean, suing a company because they happen to be more popular?
Where in the lawsuit is it mentionned that they are suing over popularity? You need a reality check.
I just was wondering. All surveys show IE has 95% of the browser market (based on # of hits on popular site I guess) but does that differ for /.? Do /. readers use other browsers/OS'ses?
/. Check your logs and tell us.
Hey CmdrTaco, how about some figures for
There's a beta version of Netscape 7 available for Solaris. You can find it at Sun Microsystems's webpage.
I used spambouncer before discovering spamassassin (www.spamassassin.org). Spambouncer requires rules, rules, rules to block all unwanted mail AND to not to block all wanted mail.
IMHO, spamassassin uses a much better system of built in rules to check for spam, including Vipul's Razor. It can easily be adjusted: give weigth to certain checks or set a higher/lower threshold for spam-marking. Spambouncer requires procmail rules which are much harder to setup.
Spamassassin made everything much easier; in the last couple of months, it blocked 1 mail which it shouldn't have and also didn't block 1 it should have.
Mozilla is not a weapon to fight a browser war, it's a weapon to fight a standards war. Fight MS in following the W3C standards.
All the discussions about IE looking, feeling, being better then any other browser don't matter to me. IE is MS's tool to internet domination through bad standards support and proprietary tags. This is what we should be fighting against. Educate web-developers not to take the easy road but follow the standards, drop IE-only tags, use validator.w3.org. If I can do it for my personal pages, they should be able to do it too.
---
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
-- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
"People say you buy a Sun server and get Solaris for free. No, you don't, The hardware is free as far as I'm concerned; we just charge $200,000 for Solaris." - Ed Zander
Sun's trying to move from a hardware company to a service provider. Just look at all the software products and services they have to offer right now. The only problem is that their customers haven't realised this yet and still consider it a hardware vendor. I've heared people saying they were amazed about the products/services (SunONE etc...) that Sun has after attending presentations... they just didn't know.
I guess Sun is trying hard to change that perception and is using Solaris 9 to wake people up.