Build a PC Inside of a Mac

jherro writes: "Looking for the coolest case on the block? Already have enough fish tanks? Then might just want to build a PC inside of your old classic mac. Makes a great little mp3 server. Sadly, the mirror at angelfire will probably be faster than the original at Smuniverse." Finding a cheap 9" monitor would be a nice trick, too.

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First Post

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous Cowars will rule ALL the world!

And we will always be better and faster and more beautiful then logged-in-trolls in doing fist posts.

Now smoke w33d.

Re:First Post

[Anonymous Coward]

Not only did he not get first post, he got shut out by an on topic, logged in post. Now THAT hurts.

FuCk ThEm ALL!!!

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lies, deceit and trickery from Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

First, let's look at the TOS, As available here:

OSDN is a website owned and operated by VA Software Corporation, for the purpose of fostering software development and content creation under Open-Source Initiative ("OSI")-approved licenses or other arrangements relating to software and/or content development that may be approved by OSDN (the "Purpose")

...yet OSDN enterprise solutions are not under "OSI-approved licenses", thus do precisely the opposite of the suggested purpose of OSDN.

If required by the site in question, each user must: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information on the Service's registration form (collectively, the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data as necessary. If, after investigation, we have reasonable grounds to suspect that any user's information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate that user's account and prohibit any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof) by that user other than as expressly provided herein.

That's right. A condition of service is that you must provide correct personal data on request, regardless of whether it is clearly necessary to go about your business or not. Some privacy there, eh?

OSDN, in its sole and absolute discretion, may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or judicial or governmental mandate or as reasonably determined necessary by us to protect the rights, property or personal safety of OSDN, its users and the public.

That's right, OSDN may disclose information arbitrarily not only if required to do so by law, but also to "protect the... property... of OSDN". That is to say, to protect its profits. How many times have a company done that before?

With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as message boards and bug trackers ("OSDN Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such OSDN Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display project activity, such content is owned by OSDN. In each such case, the submitting user grants OSDN the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable Open Source Initiative-approved license.

Is that clear? Any licence in which rights to any of the above are specifically granted, are implicitly granted to VA Software.

OSDN reserves the right to mark as "inactive" and archive accounts and/or projects that are inactive for an extended period of time.

Similar to the MSN Hotmail arbitrary account cancellation, woe betide anyone whose definition of "extended" is longer than OSDNs!

Now, let's look at the Privacy Policy:

User names and email addresses (as well as any additional information that a user may choose to post) are publicly available on the OSDN site, unless a user elects to "opt-out" of such display of personal information.

Let's make that absolutely clear. Your e-mail address is publically available unless you opt out. That's right. Like Yahoo, you have to explicitly opt out -- not opt in. And it's not just available to selected "marketing partners", but everyone.

Profile Display: In some cases, users' personal information may be publicly available through a user's profile display. In such cases, users have the option to opt out of publicly displaying their real names.

So, the "opt out" rule isn't limited to e-mail addresses. This is actually very significant -- see the quote below.

At no time, unless such disclosure is required by law or a user specifically authorizes such disclosure, will OSDN disclose individual user personal information that is not publicly available to unrelated third parties.

Since so many names and addresses are available "to unrelated third parties" (i.e. if people have not opted out), this clause specifically allows such information to be distributed to specific third parties (such as bulk mail distributors).

Ok, that's all for now. More to come soon, if I have the time.

Build your own beowulf cluster for cheap!

[Anonymous Coward]

Single node:

CPU 166 AMD Athlon Mobile 1000MHz
Motherboard 156 Aopen AK77 Plus A
Memory 96 Kingmax 256MB DDR PC266/PC300
Hard drive 80 Samsung V40 20GB ULTRA ATA/100
Floppy 12.5 Samsung/Nec 3.5" 1.44MB
Network 46 3Com Fast Etherlink XL 3C905C-TX
Cooler 68 Thermalright AX-7 + PAPST 8412NGL
Power 30 Codegen 350W ATX 2.03 (P4)

Switch 189 D-Link DES-1016 SOHO 16x10/100

TOTAL (6 nodes + switch) 4116 euros (multiply by 0.89 for US dollars)

You don't need any casing. Attach all node components to a metal plate and stuff all six of them into a closet.

Moderators on crack!

[Anonymous Coward]

How is the previous post redundant? I don't see this problem being discussed anywhere else.

Re:Moderators on crack!

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree- how the fuck is this redundant?

Intelligent cat

[ndogg]

You are one limber and intelligent cat my friend! All cats should strive to be like you.

Re:Hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's actually quite funny.

Re:Faster...Stronger...Better...

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome back, SEWilco. How did the stomach stapling work out?

Re:I could use one of those in my office...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that explains your grammatical erros, Mac loser.

Re:Mirror

[Anonymous Coward]

Your ass is a DNS server?