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  1. Shell accounts by robspeed · · Score: 1 · on Unix Shell Accounts?

    You might want to have a look at UK Shells http://www.ukshells.co.uk/ Obviously, they're based in the UK, so you Stateside people might have to contend with 10ms latency (shock, horror.) I've always found them to be efficient, helpful and exceedingly knowledgable.

  2. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MS Passport and... Visa


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  3. Gear it to them (but don't miss things out)! by nine9 · · Score: 1 · on Tips for Teaching Seniors About the Internet?
    I work in a large(-ish) chain of internet cafés (easyEverything), and sometimes we get more "mature" customers in. The two main things I've noticed are: (a) they want it to be geared to them (i.e. regarding what they want to do that day); and (b) they actually do appreciate to learn the background of things. UNlike the majority of the younger technoweenies, older people have more experience, and less impatience. They're actually willing to know why something is a particular way, 'cause they know that if they understand how it works that there's less chance that they'll "f*** it up". Old people can often get easily embarassed, so actually that is quite a major point.

    -Mark

    Må jeg få en tjener? www.nine9.ukshells.co.uk

  4. Civil Service flexi-time by nine9 · · Score: 1 · on What Are Advantages/Disavantages To Flex Time?
    I have had the opportunity to have been posted to various Civil Service departments, and I've seen both the good and bad sides of it.

    Firstly, I was at the Scottish Prison Service. Their flexi-time was a kinda bondage-and-discipline set-up, left over from the old Scottish Home & Health Department days. It demoralised employees and took away from the job satisfaction simply because it wasn't flexible enough. As a contracter I just had to work 09:00-17:00 (with o/t), and I found that the temps were happier than the permanent staff.

    My second experience was with the Registers of Scotland Executive Agency. Their set-up was that you had to work a minimum of 37 hours per week, and that you (generally) couldn't start before 07:00 or finish after 18:30. Apart from that you were your own boss regarding time. Of course, if you wanted to start after 09:00, leave before 15:00, or have a half day, you had to speak to your line-manager, but they were pretty good about this. The other advantage was that you could work as much overtime as you liked up to 55 hours per week. All-in-all the employees were really happy with their jobs. In fact, it didn't feel like a job; it felt more like something you went to and did in the day because you enjoyed it. Of course the money was good too, but the flexi-time was the big bonus.

    Må jeg få en tjener? www.nine9.ukshells.co.uk

  5. Universities huge use of Novell too by nine9 · · Score: 1 · on Is Novell Doomed?
    Universities make huge use of Novell packages/services, such as NDS too. I think again this is probably to do with the discounts applied to the licensing of a very large amount of copies of the particluar software items. For example, here at Edinburgh Uni there are hundres of computers running Windows/NT + Netware, so the scalability of licensing fees must be a big issue. And Novell must be providing competitiveness there... I mean the University isn't "made of money"!

    Må jeg få en tjener? www.nine9.ukshells.co.uk

  6. Just-dot-it! by v1z · · Score: 1 · on Pirate DNS?
    Considering the popularity of Napster, I'd say it should be easy to get something like this off the ground. Especially now that it's already been brought up on /. I say we do this!

    A little "marketing/branding" by everyone involved, a set of dns-servers and a web-page hosted somewhere like Canada, or anywhere but the US or UK (judging from my superficial knowledge of legislation and practice in those countries) ... and we should be all set. In order to avoid basing it on the existing dns-system let someone set up an equation that sums up the ip-address in an easy-to-remember fashion - and lets push that equation around. ;-)

    Now read this -- I had to scan my hard-copy because the archive apparently is dead. We really need some kind of free.org/opencontent.org

    or:cypherpunks.free
    ;-)

  7. UK shell providers by v1z · · Score: 1 · on UK Censorship: Demonic Consequences
    And to think I just paid for a uk-based shell-account...

    I have no problems at present, and I'm very happy with the service/support - so I'd really hate to move to another provider because of the UK-legal system forces providers to practice "guilty-until-proven-innocent"-policies.

    I believe UK isps, shell providers and web-hosting services need to start lobbying - and soon. There is truly little reason for locating your web-pages in the UK - even for residents of the UK.

  8. More from an ex-Scientologist by nine9 · · Score: 1 · on Windows 2000 to be banned in Germany?
    I think the big problem here is what will happen if Scientology tries to retaliate... Luckily the German Government is quite tough and doesn't makes as many U-turns as ours here in the UK, but they sure will try anything. For example, they tried to close down xenu.net (yeah, I know they didn't succeed, but they still tried)...

    Another thing that is a problem with Scientologists retaliating is that once they've made up their minds, they won't change them... For example, I use Sixdegrees a lot (don't laugh!), and there is a Scientology Discussion Group there. At first I thought they were skeptics, but then I found out they were all bona fide Scienos... OK, so I put my foot in it with a few of my remarks, but eventually they were nice to me... Then this really annoying woman shows up, somehow reads my webpages, and decides I am publishing "bad-PR", and this other guy thinks they should report me to their high hegions...

    It's so annoying!

  9. Re:Open Source Music by nine9 · · Score: 1 · on Are MP3 Web Sites Unfair to Indie Artists?
    Having Open Source Music would obviously hurt the artists trying to make a living from their music... especially if they're not well known... But it would really open up the whole remix thing... Just imagine instead of having rubbish bootleg unofficial remixes people could just remix it like they can with software under the GPL...

    It's a quite interesting notion...

    nine9

  10. Re:WTO will jump on them... by nine9 · · Score: 1 · on Windows 2000 to be banned in Germany?
    I'm definitely more afraid of the Church of Scientology... (see my Website

    ) nine9