05.11.05
Posted in blogging, internet, linux at 9:06 am by James
The funniest thing that one can do when googling (translates searching for help/info using google) is to find your own website. In the last 3 weeks I have hit my own website 3 times seearching for info on setting up various programs on linux. The most recent was because my brother was having troubles connecting to our smtp server using his Treo. My own post talked about problems with ident. Sure enough, Cingular has a blanket firewall that blocks most everything. So the mail server could not send ident requests to the Treo. Turning off ident still didnt solve the problem. I tried also setting
rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s
smtp_enforce_sync = false
but that still did not solve the problem. According to the exim logs the client just disconnects. So I guess some client side debugging may be in order. In the future, I need to add more info on my posts so that if i do come back to them, i can actually understand the problem and the solution I found.
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05.06.05
Posted in internet at 5:05 pm by site admin
Check out this Wired article Why the World is Flat. Its an interview with Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and author of the new book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. His main point is that globalization is here and that the world is a very small place now.
In any market/industry with low geographical boundaries, a few small players can dominate the field because of the massive economies of scale. Competition is everywhere. No more big fish in a small pond… We are now small fish in a big pond. (except the rich and famous.. they are big fish in a big pond)
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Posted in health, internet at 4:52 pm by site admin
Yay! IQs are going up eventhough “learning” has been going down. But the tests arent accurate. And the “alternative” tests are going up too. People arent sure whats going on. The conjecture is that the information age and the internet is forcing people to develop their problem solving and pattern matching skills.
See the Wired.com article.
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