Ohh Shit! Now I realised that it's 6M not 60M. I swear I'm not lying. It's just a a big mistake of mine. Can anybody please help now? — Tejas2 mins ago
> You can create very large distribution lists that contain over a 1,000 contacts. However, these very large lists may not function as expected in Outlook.
Hi Tom, Thank you for your valuable answer. Tell me, if I them all in one text file separated by semicolon, will it be possible to paste them in To list of outlook? — Tejas38 secs ago
so let's say his "6 million" is accurate and that he's not lying. and that you can store 200 contacts per distribution list (which itself is generous considering Microsoft's answer about 50 - 70). that's still 30,000 objects on the "To:" line of an email in Outlook.
so he'd have to split it up into 30,000 PSTs with 200 contacts apiece and (1) load a PST; (2) create the email; (3) send the email to the 200 contacts; (4) close the PST file; (5) repeat with the next PST file
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey this is DOABLE!!! just a bunch of for loops in VBScript! of course it won't all be sent until years after the spam company goes out of business, but it's DOABLE
@allquixotic I think they're better of writing a POP / SMTP program which they can sent a mail to in some authenticated way and then that program would balance out sending the mails over the next hours / days.
Just have to update the TO field, probably not even hard to write.
there are plenty of sane ways to do it but this guy is looking for "just" doing it the way he wants, details like performance and feasibility be damned
first of all, just the sheer upstream bandwidth required to do that is probably going to exceed anything that he has since he isn't in a server environment
I guess if all the users on the mailing list were from only a handful of different domains the bandwidth required wouldn't be that enormous; the list of emails itself would be a couple megabytes and I think SMTP does support Gzip, doesn't it?
the bandwidth skyrockets in the worst case of everyone having a different domain though, or even half the people... that's 3 million DNS MX record queries and 3 million SMTP conversations
It is, in a way. It just uses a super-highway with a maximum speed limit of c (the speed of light) and can carry millions, or even billions of passengers... up to 4 billion on the one with 32" tires, and up to 340 trillion, 282 billion, 366 million, 920 thousand, 938 with 128" tires
I could be answering other riveting questions with extremely well thought-out and researched questions and answers, and helping build SU into a truly global and generally-useful resource. Questions such as:
Does anyone know how to boot Solaris 11 form an internal/external HDD? I have already done dual boot form CD ROM. I just need to knoww how to boot from a USB Flash Drive and/or a HDD.
I want to use a D-Link ADSL2 router/modem ( DSL-2640B ) to sniff all network traffic (for a security audit. I don't have time to scan all machines there and I want to know if they are quiet or sending 10MB/s of sensitive data to some location ;) ).
There will be a net connection on LAN port 1 an...
Recently when I open windows services (always as administrator) I get a blank list of services:
When I try and click on one of the empty lines I get this "Script Error" message:
This happens over and over again, after several times I restarted my computer. I can't pinpoint exactly when this...
you can probably use a dll inspection/hacking program to extract the resource from mmcndmgr.dll and view the JS and figure out where exactly it's crashing
@HaydnWVN Not sure if it's actually illegal in all cases. Unless they're violating trademarks or committing fraud, I don't think there's much the authorities can do.
I was going to slap you around with a large trout (shamelessly stolen from mIRC) if you were pirating something commercial >___> but I should know better than to think that you would do that; you're a diamond, you have morals ;D
i may have to play that this weekend. huge fan of HL1
The fact that the access points share the same SSID does not alleviate problems of cross-talk and synchronization.
There are two types of "interference". I will term them "managed interference" and "unmanaged interference" for the purposes of this discussion.
Managed interference is the "good" ...
negligence. it's not that I like or dislike the question, just that I usually forget to upvote the question... if you look at my voting history, I upvote a ton of answers but very few questions... I don't know why, psychological something
I'll downvote a horrible question (though, more likely to vote to close) and upvote a question that immensely impresses me; but most questions fall in the middle and I just don't bother
the simple answer to his "What kind of errors can I expect" would basically be that stuff is probably going to time out occasionally, and bandwidth might be severely constrained
but if the unmanaged interference isn't too heinous then the worst it'll do is just increase ping times and cause reduced bandwidth
@OliverSalzburg I didn't edit the question as I felt it was good enough after your edit, but I added more text to my answer and directly quoted the bulleted questions that you broke out in the question, and answered them directly using terminology and concepts that I had previously established earlier in the answer.
I'm not a physicist, but I've read a lot about WiFi and let it distill in my brain over a period of years to develop what I think is a fairly solid understanding of RF and the basic problems involved and what we can solve with protocols and what we can't solve
I'm still rather mystified (overall) regarding just how damn reliable Verizon LTE is, though... I mean it's not as reliable as hard-wired fiber, but it's by far the most reliable "wireless" data I have ever used... the term "wireless" of course meaning data transmitted via RF through the air, not referring specifically to WiFi
I know about time-division multiplexing and the very careful spacing / ranges of the towers and the seamless handoff protocol and field testing and the increased building penetration of lower frequency (700 MHz) and so on. but it's still amazing.
That terrible Outlook question got another upvote. And it got me a gold badge. AND, one of our SF regulars is trying to reproduce it in his lab. The early results are interesting. He managed to take down his whole VMware host, the Active Directory, and a bunch of other stuff just by trying to import a large CSV into Outlook.
We're not sure. Last I heard, he was going to try it again on a non-domain box. But that was almost an hour ago.
@Tejas If you or your client really is a spammer, do let me know, and I will actually post instructions for you on how to do this. Loading only 25,000 contacts into an Outlook client on a test VM has caused some pretty interesting and destructive issues. — HopelessN00b49 mins ago
that really sounds more like a resource control problem in VMware, because in theory at least, VMs are supposed to be controll(able) by the hypervisor / host, so that even the most egregious resource usage can be stifled
the funny part is that the source data -- a couple million email addresses -- isn't all that big, is it? I mean, what, I'd be surprised if it surpassed 50 MB.
@OliverSalzburg, pasting 150 MiB of data can take a while, too
and doesn't it have to check each entry to determine if it's in an address book?
to map it to a friendly name
pasting it is probably even more dangerous because the clipboard is a shared windows resource and I think Explorer.exe arbitrates it, so you could take down explorer if you flooded the clipboard... in principle... or the API call to put the data on the clipboard would fail, idk
but I hate Windows and even I have enough respect for Windows to expect that the WORST that could happen when pegging a userspace process in a VM is causing the VM to freeze up
but losing the host makes it sound like the resource usage was so enormous (and uncontrolled) that it caused some kind of resource limit DoS on the whole system
I wonder if the OP knew ahead of time that doing that would cause some kind of insane resource exhaustion and wanted to goad someone into trying it ;-)
the troll who trolled the trolls or so
that could actually turn out to be a huge deal if you're running a VMware based VPS service and let people run Windows on the guests, although I suspect that ESX allows you to hard limit resources
I have a CSV file containing about a lot of email IDs(of the order of tens of millions). I want them in my Outlook. But when I try to import them, Outlook crashes every time.
So is there any trick/shortcut by which I can get them in my Outlook?
I have a CSV file containing about a lot of email IDs(of the order of tens of millions). I want them in my Outlook. But when I try to import them, Outlook crashes every time.
So is there any trick/shortcut by which I can get them in my Outlook?
@JourneymanGeek Was already closed, but think my response caused Oliver to open it again or so. Dunno, was suprised to actually see it reopened; didn't though I'd convince him...
@JourneymanGeek At some point in this channel earlier (but not in the question itself) I did mention it was like using a tiny red rubber hammer to drive spikes into railroad ties
Total headesk moment. I just realised the latest version of the software for my dad's old phone (which we use as a spare 3g modem) automatically exports to android phones
My lovely little hack, and half days worth of beating things into working are obsolete
/me does wish he could work out why the wierd little google maps build won't connect to the internet.
And I wonder how long before people from the old country stop using lakh and crore.
Indian English is becoming another language nearly incomprehensible to those who don't speak it... which I'm not inherently against, it's just that it shouldn't be passed off as the same English as is spoken in the US/UK/Canada/etc... because increasingly, it's not
don't think it's an education problem, just that everyone goes around thinking it's the correct way and then they are surprised when people from other parts of the world go "huh?"
that kind of thing was easier to do in the past where cultures were insular and intercultural contact was rarer
oh yeah, tons... lots of immigrants to the US (I work with them), lots of tech support outsourced, and many people connected to the internet who live in India... it's kind of hard to create your own language these days because you don't have ~100 years of insular culture to let it diverge so much that it's incomprehensible. the rest of the world calls you out on your changes before it becomes its own language
@TomWijsman -- I'm not sure if just kexecing a new kernel is "safe" and "effective" for applying significant driver updates, particularly on the graphics stack! I imagine you might run into a panic instead
AFAIK most of the DRM drivers expect the video hardware to either be in the state it's in when the system originally boots, or the state it's in when resuming from standby, in the early instructions of DRM
@allquixotic: I haven't had any problems with that, I'd guess you'll find out soon enough if a particular hardware device / driver combination has a problem with that.
rebooting isn't painful on my laptop, though... it's the desktop that's a nightmare... the hardware RAID controller's firmware takes about 30 seconds to boot up, and there's exactly nothing I can do to speed it up... there are no settings, no nothing. I've updated the firmware several times and it doesn't seem to improve its initialization time
I doubt Atwood could ever be a juror. They'd quickly find out that he knows things and disqualify him. You're supposed to basically be in a vegetative/reactive/highly-emotionally-influential state in order to be a good juror. Quality thought, reason, technical knowledge? Poof. Gone.
Anyone with IQ in excess of a chimp is immediately excused
Well yeah, there's the one part where they don't want people locked that haven't done things and there's the other part where they want people locked just in case...
the only goal of prosecutors is to get you in jail, it doesn't matter whether you did it or not. no one except your own lawyer (and even then...) is really interested in keeping an innocent person from going to jail
Does anyone know how to boot Solaris 11 form an internal/external HDD? I have already done dual boot form CD ROM. I just need to knoww how to boot from a USB Flash Drive and/or a HDD.
Recently when I open windows services (always as administrator) I get a blank list of services:
When I try and click on one of the empty lines I get this "Script Error" message:
This happens over and over again, after several times I restarted my computer. I can't pinpoint exactly when this...
The fact that the access points share the same SSID does not alleviate problems of cross-talk and synchronization.
There are two types of "interference". I will term them "managed interference" and "unmanaged interference" for the purposes of this discussion.
Managed interference is the "good" ...
You may find the following post useful to get rid of this confusion
http://www.thegeekscope.com/linux-du-command-to-find-disc-space-usage/
I have a CSV file containing about a lot of email IDs(of the order of tens of millions). I want them in my Outlook. But when I try to import them, Outlook crashes every time.
So is there any trick/shortcut by which I can get them in my Outlook?
