>
>>>>> So we're a bunch of Hardware/Software conservationists and
>>>> up to 10% of us are dedicated to destroying old software on CDs.
>>>>
>>>> Considering the number of AOL disks flaoting around out
>>>> there I consider that a GOOD thing!
>>>>
>
> While AOL CD's are (currently) an extreme case. Think back to all of the
> items that were once "all too common junk" and are now lost entirely. Did
> any of us ever think the stuff would become rare?
>
I remember when AOL disks were floppies. At least you'd get a free
supply....
Hmmm....I remember seeing an AOL disk for an *Apple II* around here,
wonder if it would still work....
>I remember when AOL disks were floppies. At least you'd get a free supply....
Of crappy floppies... :-O At least they were OK for xferring drivers &
whatnot between machines, if you didn't need to keep the data long.
>Hmmm....I remember seeing an AOL disk for an *Apple II* around here,
>wonder if it would still work....
I'd bet it would work great *on ePay*... ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch"
heh, I still got my Apple // AOL access kit. It would not work with my Laser
128. I had to borrow a friend's //c to connect. Dealing with those cursed
shrinkit archives was not easy with a single floppy drive either.
Bruce Lane <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com> wrote:
> This tells me right away that he has absolutely no concept of what I,
> as a self-hosted SysAdmin, go through each and every DAY, trying to
> protect my network effectively against outside abuse.
I have always advocated for a law that bans both spam and spamblocking,
and imposes penalties for spamblockers 10 times as stiff as those for
spammers. 1 year in prison for spam, 10 years in prison for spamblocking.
Or 10 years in prison for spam, execution by guillotine on live TV for
spamblocking.
MS,
who is also a completely self-host sysadmin, publishes his E-mail
address far and wide, and uses absolutely no filtering of any kind.
Former president of American Internet Relay League and proud open
ARPA Internet mail relay operator, until being forced down by harassment
>from criminal paramilitary death squad organisations like MAPS and ORBS.
>But what IF a major service provider was to decide to "reduce spam" by
>prefenting ALL of their residential customers from accessing and SMTP server
>but their own [the cable company's].....
>
>This has actually happended here in NY. You MUST use their SMTP server!!!!
>[they have blocked ALL outbound traffic on port 25 except to their IP!]
Which is a huge hassle and annoyance.
My sister's ISP just started doing that (cablevision... probably the same
NY ISP you are referring to). She now has to have two different account
setups. One for when she is home and wants to send email, and one for
when she is traveling and wants to send email.
Major PITA if you ask me, and seriously overkill for the problem at hand
(but fairly typical of the cablevision attitude towards customers).
At least if you are going to block port 25, do it like AOL. Capture the
traffic and reroute it thru your own mail server. That way users can stay
blissfully unaware of the block, and continue to use one mail setup for
all occasions.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Fellow computer tinkerers,
I had a recent E-mail exchange with a fellow named Ed Kelleher, apparently the president of a company called 'Macro-Inc.com.' They appear to sell overpriced (to my eyes, anyway) DEC systems and parts.
What had happened was that I had found, in my mail server logs, entries which showed that Mr. Kelleher had tried to send me something, only to have it bounced repeatedly due to the fact that I'm currently blocking traffic from the biz.rr.com domain (this last due to RR.Com's utter lack of response to ongoing spam, port probes, and other abuse coming from their network).
I sent him a polite note advising him of what I'd found, and asking him to please re-send the message to my backup address, which is not spam-filtered in any way that I know of.
It worked -- sort of. I got back a very terse -- I would actually call it rude -- reply to the effect that he'd tried to send whatever he was sending five times, with and without attachments, and had finally given up. In his words "I don't care to send it again. Stupid policy of yours."
This tells me right away that he has absolutely no concept of what I, as a self-hosted SysAdmin, go through each and every DAY, trying to protect my network effectively against outside abuse.
That point aside, I sent back another polite request, saying that I'm sorry he felt that way, and asking that he please not blame me for doing what I felt necessary to protect my tiny corner of the Internet. I also asked him if he would consider at least telling me what it was he was trying to send.
No response yet, of course. I'm not sure I'll ever see one. Based on what I saw of his company's web site, though, I suspect that what he had to send may have been of minimal value in any case (possibly even spam).
Has anyone on the list had any contact with this person or his company?
The vast majority of people that I've asked to re-send their original message have no problem with it, and are fully understanding of why their initial attempts might have been blocked. What's gotten into this fellow that he can't seem to understand the view from my side, especially considering that he sells (and presumably works with) computer goodies?
Insights and opinions welcomed. Thanks much.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"
I was down at the computer surplus store and found a shredder in the
metal recycling bin. The case and covers were missing. I purchased it.
It has a chain drive, larger than a bike chain, large motor, and will
reverse if it stalls. Lots of nice whirring bare blades/disks.
It will handle about a 1/2 inch thick pile of paper at one time. CD's
don't even slow it down. My wife has come home to find me sitting on the
floor shredding old checks and tax returns. Kind of therapeutic to here
the whir and watch paper turned into strips. I then feed it in again and
out comes chips of paper. Paper clips are OK, only has a problem with
paper clamps.
Kind of dangerous, but what fun is a safe shredder. Probably needs dual
interlocks so that I must have both hands on them to prevent me
shredding my fingers.
Mike
Hi,
Does anyone happen to know of a trick to remove (or lessen the effect of)
the yellowing that tends to happen to lighter-coloured plastics? I've got a
few monitors here that are pretty bad - the yellowing I can put up with, but
the difference between the non-yellowed areas and the yellowed areas shows up
like a sore thumb.
Is this just one of those things that happens to plastics that's best
ignored?
Thanks.
--
Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Remington, shaves as close as a blade or we send the boys round.
Hi
I find that a leather punch and a mallet works
quite well. The results are good enough that one
can still use them as reasonable Frisbees ( not
really balanced well ). The oven method really
destroys the aerodynamics. Shredding makes them
truly worthless.
Dwight
>From: "John A. Dundas III" <dundas(a)caltech.edu>
>
>I admit, actually shredding the things would be satisfying, however,
>
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