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Journal SPAM: And knowing is half the battle 5

Journal by stoolpigeon on Friday February 23, 2007 @09:47AM

If you should ever feel compelled to think about running Oracle RAC on AIX -- let me give you a helpful suggestion. Find a safe place to build a giant pile of cash, pour gasoline all over it, and set it on fire. What this will accomplish is you will waste your money but save your time trying to get it working.

I'm sick to my stomache thinking about what we've put into this steaming pile of crap. You'd think that $250,000 worth of servers and who knows how much in software li

Journal Journal: Alleged spammer tries to take Spamhaus.org, foiled

Journal by norml on Friday February 23, 2007 @09:03AM

Last year, electronic marketing firm e360insight sued the anti-spam blocklist Spamhaus in U.S. District Court over being included on the Spamhaus website as an alleged spammer. Since Spamhaus is a UK company, the jurisdiction of a U.S. Court may be questionable, but Spamhaus found (the hard way) that the court was still willing to enter a default judgment. e360insight then attempted to take Spamhaus.org by using the US Marshall service to try to seize it from its domain registrar, Tucows, but fa

Feed Air Force Seeks Sleepless Lights (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday February 23, 2007 @08:12AM

No more "go pills": The military wants special lights to keep pilots awake. Otherwise, the brass will just breed the need to sleep out of 'em. In Danger Room.

Comment Quitters (Score 1) 888

by flakblaster on Friday January 14, 2005 @03:30PM (#11365707) Attached to: Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users

I can't believe that these people gave up. Firewalls and antivirus will almost always do the trick. That should be the first thing anyone installs on their computer before ever hooking up to the net. Why do so many people seem ignorant of these simple things?

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