Comment What I use (Score 1) 453

by neonsam on Sunday May 11, 2008 @10:13AM (#23368830) Attached to: Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business?

We have slightly more people in our office - approx. 65. We used GFI for a while - it sucked to administer and use, it just isn't good enough. While not inexpensive, I have been very pleased with the IronPort C series device. Very pleased. Even thought they were purchased by Cisco, they still operate independently. Their support (that I've used twice in 3 years) is also very good. I manage mine like yours - I manually review the stuff that gets quarantined - maybe 15 a day all of the rest of the "definite" spam gets bounced. We've only had about 3 false positives in 3 years.

Submission + - Charter implements SiteFinder-like DNS

Submitted by paulbiz on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @06:24PM

paulbiz writes: It appears Charter Cable's DNS servers have just started resolving all invalid hostnames and pointing them to their own error page. The about page states "This service automatically eliminates many of the error pages you may encounter as you surf the web. No software was installed on your computer for this service to work." It has an "opt-out" page, but when you "opt-out" it simply sets a cookie that makes their page redirect errors to Microsoft Live Search instead!

Comment Re:Little boys (Score 1) 242

by Drakonite on Sunday September 10, 2006 @06:13PM (#16077620) Attached to: Are Videogames Art?

To most, Shakespeare is art.

And at the time, Shakespeare's works were essentially the dime store novels and sitcoms of the day...

The Simpson's Movie Confirmed 334

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 02, 2006 @01:34AM from the not-a-joke dept.

bagsc writes "BBC News reports Twentieth Centruy Fox confirms The Simpsons are going to the movies! Should hit theatres in 2007." From the article: "A 25-second trailer for the film has been shown to US audiences at screenings of Ice Age: The Meltdown, promising to introduce 'the greatest hero in American history'. It then cut to Homer Simpson, wearing only his underwear, who admitted: 'I forgot what I was supposed to say.'"

Comment Re:"Smackdown" (Score 1) 294

by AlexTheBeast on Monday November 14, 2005 @09:09PM (#14031132) Attached to: Blog Software Smackdown

The real "smackdown" should be that most slashdot users should be able to craft a pretty nice blog out of php and mysql alone. This isn't difficult stuff to do. The best I can tell that's what most big sites like tech-recipes do.

Even if you are going to use one of these blogging tools, why limit yourself to the default code. You are the most geeky of the gurus! Hack the crap out of that code. These are in easy php code. Use their work as a building point... and rip out your own version of it.

What the heck has slashdot come to?

ATB

Comment Re:Silly article (Score 1) 838

by Ooobles on Tuesday January 18, 2005 @09:03PM (#11403557) Attached to: Are Extensible Programming Languages Coming?

1. How about a plug-in architecture to the VM which takes code specifically designed for graphics primatives which have been put in the code. The idea of plug-in is a lot more fine grained than what you're saying.

2. LISP is a great example. It is the first example that people present. Ashame that LISP has such terrible syntax. Wouldn't it be nice to have an editor that displays code at a higher level, but the low level language is like LISP. Putting code in a different form allows that. I'm looking at doing a language in Argot ( http://www.einet.com.au/ ) which is binary. It will probably act a lot like LISP but will look like a format that the user is comfortable.

3. I disagree. Grammars and parsers are a pain to write. And grammars are especially hard to develop and get right. A format which is closer to AST is easier to parse. If we're going to get rid of this tower of babel we've developed for ourselves, we need to develop more flexible formats to describe code.