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| 2003/5/13-14 [Computer/Domains, Finance/Investment] UID:28420 Activity:kinda low |
5/12 Does Speakeasy allow to change the reverse DNS resolution for home
DSL accounts? If not, is there some other affordable ISP that lets
you change the reverse DNS resolution?
\_ Curious. What do you need reverse lookup for? I've yet to work
at a company that's done anything with it.
\_ The PARANOID setting in tcpwrappers denies connections from
IPs whose forward and reverse lookups don't match.
\_ then there'll be a huge chunk of the net unable to connect.
"paranoia" is not considered a positive trait. it's a mental
illness.
\_ lotsa companies have mail servers setup this way already
where if you dont have reverse or your reverse doesnt
match the domain they reject.
\_ Beacause it's cool. |
| 2003/5/13-14 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java, Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:28421 Activity:high |
5/12 I'm making a website for a friend and he'd like to process some
simple credit card transactions (he's a lawyer and its for one-
time legal consultations). Anyone know a good way to do this?
Yahoo and Earthlink both seem to offer services, but I already have
a full dynamic web app, and thus would prefer to not have to use
some dumbed-down GUI interface for setting the thing up. thanks.
\_ Talk to the CC folks you'll be dealing with. They each have a
variety of different methods and pricing for cc+net charges.
There's software on your end to talk to their end on an encrypted
connection and an API to go with it which the software will deal
with. The software's task is generic, do some research and buy
whatever fits your budget.
\_ I don't get it... are you saying the banks providing merchant
accounts will typically provide me w/ an API for processing
CC transactions?
\_ no, im saying there *is* a standard api that the people who
build the cc software use to talk to the banks. it's unlikely
anyone will give random hacker dude their api.
\_ ok, I guess I'm not being clear... what I'm asking for
are some recomendations for cc software places
\_ I've been looking at a variety of systems and have
some notes here : http://csua.org/u/ebd
I think I'll be going with ECHO since they have a Java
version and my app is mostly JSP/servlets -brain
\_ great! thanks alot.
\_ rule of thumb-- don't work for a lawyer.
\_ I use VeriSign. They offer you APIs to talk to all major
credit card issuers. You only pay them a small fee when
someone charges his/her card. |
| 2003/5/13-14 [Uncategorized/Multicategory] UID:28422 Activity:high |
5/13 I'm doing research on Microsoft's rise to a multinational megacorp
and need info on what they produce elsewhere and import for sale back
into the US. I know about the xbox. There must be other stuff but
google returns hundreds of thousands of hits for most MS related
search terms. Can the motd help me with this? Anything they ship
into the US, even they're only stamping the CD's elsewhere or printing
box covers somewhere else that end up here. Anything. Thanks!
\_ alot of huge companies have a company historian. maybe they have
one, and maybe they'll help you. it's worth a try.
\_ I talked to someone there. "It's all proprietary company secrets
that can not be disclosed blah blah blah". Sigh....
\_ I just checked the underside of Microsoft keyboard and mouse and the
labels on both read "Made in Mexico". --- yuen
\_ China for me.
\_ Thanks! Anyone know of any software they import in any sense?
\_ Don't they outsource engineers from India?
\_ Yeah there's stuff in India and maybe China, Russia, Israel
and I'm not sure about England or if England is just a local
business/sales office but I can't find product names.
\_ check out business financial news (e.g. yahoo finance). Not sure
how long the archives go back, but you might find stories about
M$ acquisitions. Also, check out their SEC yearly reports. They
often must disclose that they purchased so-and-so company. It's
at least a place to start.
\_ I work at a place where I have access to lots of merger
and acquisition data... I just did a quick search and couldn't
find any instances where MS purchased a company outside of the
US, Europe or Canada -- actually, scratch that... two purchases
in Israel and one in Japan... post your email if you want details
\_ Doesn't almost every company (hi-tech or otherwise) have their
products manufactured in other countries?
\_ Yes, but MS is the subject of my research. I'm only one guy.
A company the size of MS should be enough to fill a few volumes. |
| 2003/5/13-15 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:28423 Activity:high |
5/13 Is there something wrong with spam assassin? I changed nothing
in my configuration files, but suddenly none of the junk mails
are getting processed. Thanks.
\_ Are you using spamc? If so the problem appears to be that
spamd isn't running.
\_ root has bigger fish to fry and spamd has stopped
frequently. I gave up and invoke spamassassin directly
now. See crebbs' procmail example above since he does
the same.
\_ what does root do if not make sure services that a
lot of people use keep running?
\_ Root is probably studying for finals,
give root a break. - yaalum
\_ Um, their classwork? Considering their salary for
the job, I think root@soda is doing pretty well.
-- alum
\_ while 1 { spamd };
\_ putting it into cron so that it starts
ever hour or so is better
\_ Well, no. Invoking spamassassin
directly is the correct answer.
\_ If everyone did this, soda
would be unusable.
\_ Your pont? If everyone who
had an account logged into
soda at once, it would be
unusable.
\_ When a more elegant
and less resource
intensive soln is
available it ought
to be used. I'm not
saying that root
needs to set this
asap, just whenever
so that things are
better for everyone.
\_
3:06PM up 112 days, 16:56, 219 users, load averages: 0.69, 0.55, 0.44
\_ you can look at your email headers and see what (if any) score
spamassassin is giving those mails. I have noticed a lot of
low scoring spam these days. You can change the rules in
your .spamassassin/user_prefs file to try to catch some of
these but you can cause false positives if you are not careful.
(though, perhaps your like me and if someone sends you HTML-only
mail, you don't care if you miss it). -crebbs
\_ The spam that is getting through doesn't have any of the
spam assassin headers (X-Spam-Status, X-Spam-Level, or
X-Spam-Checker-Version) which leads me to believe that
they never got run through spam assassin or that spam
assassin didn't do anything to the messages.
Perhaps the problem is with procmail and not spam
assassin? - !OP
\_ If you don't have those fields i assume it isn't going
through spamassassin. You can look at my .forward
and .procmailrc if you want to see a setup that works.
My last spam was caught at 9:30 this morning.
(i'm no expert, just followed a given recipe) -crebbs
\_ Thanks. Looks like my problem is with spamc/d.
\_ Also, you might want to check if the latest version is
installed?
\_ Hmm, I'm having the same problem as well. The last spam caught
was yesterday @ 6pm. Today, had two pieces of spam without any
X-Spam headers. Even mailed myself, no X-Spam headers. I haven't
changed any configuration in quite some time.
\_ Are you using spamc? If so the problem appears to be that
spamd isn't running.
\_ Yup. Should I be using something else?
\_ No according to the man pages we should all be using
spamc. Someone with root access should start spamd
so that spamc starts working again.
\_ mail root for this, don't post to the motd
root doesn't monitor the motd
\_ root has bigger fish to fry and spamd has stopped
frequently. I gave up and invoke spamassassin directly
now. See crebbs' procmail example above since he does
the same.
\_ pros & cons of doing this?
\_ spamassassin is slower and requires more
system resources than spamc. |
| 2003/5/13-14 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:28424 Activity:kinda low |
5/13 Is there a way to make Matlab plot something similar to an Excel
"XY-Scatter plot", where it takes the data points, connects them,
and also smooths them?
\_ spline
\_ But I don't know the shape that I want to fit it to.
Specifically, I'm drawing a loop; I have about
20 points that make up the loop, but if I just plot
them and connect them, it'd be jagged. All I want
to do is smooth it all together.
\_ lowess using polar coordinates?
\_ That's in the Curve Fitting Toolbox, which
I don't have. Any other suggestions? -op |
| 2003/5/13-14 [Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:28425 Activity:high |
5/13 http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/05/13/microsoft.hoax.ap/index.html \_ just another example of how microsoft announces a product they don't intend to finish, just to fuck people over. \_ fuck over who exactly? anyway, the truth is they put this out there to see how people would respond and everyone made fun of them so they dropped it and retracted. if the response had been positive they sure as hell would've done it. it wasn't a hoax. \_ Okay, now that's just weak. Why use a sexual reference when a scatalogical one would be so much better? \_ I'm devastated that i won't get to brows the net while I dump. \_ bring your own keyboard \_ womens restrooms have dual purpose mousepads \_ MS clarifies: Actually, it wasn't a hoax. link:www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/5852697.htm \_ Maybe it was originally a US idea. Then after it got laughed at so much, they blaimed it on the UK division. \_ Blame the French! |
| 2003/5/13-14 [Computer/HW] UID:28426 Activity:nil |
5/13 http://www.click10.com/news/2198497/detail.html This is work safe picture wise but might get caught by a text content filter if you work at a really tight place. Everyone else, enjoy! |
| 2003/5/13-15 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:28427 Activity:high |
5/13 Stupid C++ question but I can't get it to compile:
struct MyStruct {};
class Super {
public:
virtual void foo (MyStruct str, int* bar) = 0 {}
virtual void foo (MyStruct str, unsigned int* bar) {
return foo(str, reinterpret_cast<int*>(bar)); }
}
class Sub : public Super {
public:
void foo (MyStruct str, int* bar) {}
}
Sub implements foo for a regular int, but should use Super's foo
for unsigned int. But whenever I compile I get errors about
"invalid conversion from `unsigned int*' to `int*'" from code that
uses an instance of Sub. Help?
\_ is foo virtual?
\_ sorry, yes-- the first foo is virtual, the second is not (though
I've tried making the 2nd virtual as well.)
\_ I've put an explanation in ~mconst/pub/overriding-overloading;
let me know if that answers your question. --mconst
\_ I had to go look it up to make sure, but your answer omits the
using delcaration. One solution is to add one line:
class Sub : public Super
{
using Super::foo; //imports *all* overloads
foo (MyStruct struct, int* bar);
}
The standard dictates that if you have the same signature from a
using declaration and a member declaration, the member declaration
wins. -emarkp
\_ You're right, that is nicer; I've fixed my explanation.
(Unfortunately, though, it doesn't work with gcc 2.95 or
with Visual Studio .NET.) --mconst
\_ It worked with VS .NET 2003 (7.1). I'm not surprised if it
didn't work with 2002 (7.0). The conformance is nearly
complete (missing exception specifications and export IIRC).
-emarkp
\_ You must be explicit with each overload. C++ rules are that if you
hide one function, you hide *all* overloads. Hence foo(Mystruct,
unsigned int*) is not visible in class Sub. See
http://csua.org/u/ec6 -- look for "Q55" -emarkp
\_ thanks for the helpful answers; I tried the using clause but
didn't get instant results; this is targetted to a platform
with a rather old version of gcc so I'm just going to suck it
up and copy-paste into the subclasses. Thanks again. -op |