The Fair Use provisions of Title 17 of US copyright law do not grant you any rights to make a copy of anyone's intellectual property. They only make you immune from prosecution if you manage to actually make a copy (and use it only in a manner consistant with Fair Use).
Dish Network/Echostar issued an ECM just a few days later that shut down all but cloned cards.
Expect that they will also have new ECMs to defeat any major piracy effort.
Dish's engineers are also monitoring the pirate boards for all the info they need to issue meaningful ECMs.
Gotta agree, their support is terrible. I have several domains hosted there that were down for the better part of a week due to an apache configuration error. It took half a dozen emails to get the problem looked into.
They are very security minded, and don't support telnet or ftp access. (Not a problem for me).
On the up side, they are cheap, but I don't think you'll get 5GB / month from a vhost like csoft, my pages there have been running mighty slow lately.
Here is a link to an outfit that'll set you up with a dedicated server for $100 / month with unlimited bandwidth Netmar.com.
Part of the puzzle to me was why the requests were generating 403s (Forbidden to access).
It turns out that all the requests were for the robots.txt file in the default web space my host sets up for every account. I have five domains registered and working under that account, but had never paid any attention to, published any links to, or placed any files into that default directory. What's more, I never even made it world readable, thus the 403s.
I've since fixed all of that, and placed a redirection page in that directory to shuffle requests off to my vanity page, but I haven't seen any more requests like those.
I have seen a few browser requests from/. readers, but no more request bursts like those.
Thanks for all your suggestions, even the stupid ones gave me a laugh.
But the Dish lives on. See this page at The Echostar Knowledge Base for drawings and photos that will show you how to convert that old Primestar Dish to one which receives DirecTV or Dish Network with much more gain (thus much less rain and snow fade).
Hundreds of homes have already been equipped with Gilat2Home systems as part of the final phase of pilot testing. Testers are forbidden to share info with public sources, but many are contributing anonomously at alt.dbs.echostar and other satellite oriented newsgroups.
More info can be found at this page at The Echostar Knowledge Base.
While most of my on-line orders this year were not gifts, and I used the cheapest shipping method, all arrived by Dec 24th. Only took about a week after placing the order. Toys R Us may be experiencing supplier problems.
Currently pundits are predicting the end of Moore's law with 9 micron interconnects. In my opinion, we'll see this limit as soon as 2002. If it takes til 2014 to ramp up manufacturing processes for molecular CPUs, this means that the CPU you buy in 2003 might actually remain state-of-the-art for an unprecedented 10 years!
Cough, Cough, In the old days, we had Tandy 2000's (ca 1984). I remember the original 128K Mac, Couldn't do anything useful on it. Needed a $5,000 Lisa to do Mac development. The Lisa was actually the first mass marketed GUI machine, but at $5,000 - $10,000 were not a big hit with anyone except those folks who needed them to do Mac development. Anyway where was I? Oh Yeah, Those Tandy 2000's were the hottest thing in those days, 640x400 RGBrgb graphics, 8MHz 186 CPU, 10M HD. Microsoft used them to develop the first version of Windows (This was long before they actually released 1.0). I even had a copy that I cloned from a demo machine. It fit on two 720k floppy disks. Couldn't do anything useful with it either. The DeskMate software you're referring to was a simple graphical shell, like GEM and others it really didn't do much more than execute programs.
Does this mean that squatters who offer their domains for sale will have to use the domain themselves or lose it? Its hard to understand that Gov-Speak.
I've got a couple of those X-10 wireless video/audio sender/receivers. They operate on 2.4 GHz and whenever I get radar scanned (or operate my microwave) the picture and sound get hosed. I've been scanned (apparently from the air or space since I live in a gulch) only twice in a 2 month period.
I have a theory. We're already being sucked into a massive black hole at the center of the universe. Due to time dilation effects, we don't notice this, but it does appear as if the rest of the universe is accelerating away from us.
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Sorry, PARC did the Alto. GEM was another Windows wannabe. It worked better than Windows 1.0, but both were mostly just GUI ports of DOS.
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The Fair Use provisions of Title 17 of US copyright law do not grant you any rights to make a copy of anyone's intellectual property. They only make you immune from prosecution if you manage to actually make a copy (and use it only in a manner consistant with Fair Use).
Dish Network/Echostar issued an ECM just a few days later that shut down all but cloned cards. Expect that they will also have new ECMs to defeat any major piracy effort. Dish's engineers are also monitoring the pirate boards for all the info they need to issue meaningful ECMs.
Gotta agree, their support is terrible. I have several domains hosted there that were down for the better part of a week due to an apache configuration error. It took half a dozen emails to get the problem looked into. They are very security minded, and don't support telnet or ftp access. (Not a problem for me). On the up side, they are cheap, but I don't think you'll get 5GB / month from a vhost like csoft, my pages there have been running mighty slow lately. Here is a link to an outfit that'll set you up with a dedicated server for $100 / month with unlimited bandwidth Netmar.com.
It turns out that all the requests were for the robots.txt file in the default web space my host sets up for every account. I have five domains registered and working under that account, but had never paid any attention to, published any links to, or placed any files into that default directory. What's more, I never even made it world readable, thus the 403s. I've since fixed all of that, and placed a redirection page in that directory to shuffle requests off to my vanity page, but I haven't seen any more requests like those. I have seen a few browser requests from /. readers, but no more request bursts like those.
Thanks for all your suggestions, even the stupid ones gave me a laugh.
But the Dish lives on. See this page at The Echostar Knowledge Base for drawings and photos that will show you how to convert that old Primestar Dish to one which receives DirecTV or Dish Network with much more gain (thus much less rain and snow fade).
Hundreds of homes have already been equipped with Gilat2Home systems as part of the final phase of pilot testing. Testers are forbidden to share info with public sources, but many are contributing anonomously at alt.dbs.echostar and other satellite oriented newsgroups. More info can be found at this page at The Echostar Knowledge Base.
Three cable TV systems in Alabama failed at the stroke of midnight.
While most of my on-line orders this year were not gifts, and I used the cheapest shipping method, all arrived by Dec 24th. Only took about a week after placing the order. Toys R Us may be experiencing supplier problems.
Currently pundits are predicting the end of Moore's law with 9 micron interconnects. In my opinion, we'll see this limit as soon as 2002. If it takes til 2014 to ramp up manufacturing processes for molecular CPUs, this means that the CPU you buy in 2003 might actually remain state-of-the-art for an unprecedented 10 years!
Cough, Cough, In the old days, we had Tandy 2000's (ca 1984). I remember the original 128K Mac, Couldn't do anything useful on it. Needed a $5,000 Lisa to do Mac development. The Lisa was actually the first mass marketed GUI machine, but at $5,000 - $10,000 were not a big hit with anyone except those folks who needed them to do Mac development. Anyway where was I? Oh Yeah, Those Tandy 2000's were the hottest thing in those days, 640x400 RGBrgb graphics, 8MHz 186 CPU, 10M HD. Microsoft used them to develop the first version of Windows (This was long before they actually released 1.0). I even had a copy that I cloned from a demo machine. It fit on two 720k floppy disks. Couldn't do anything useful with it either. The DeskMate software you're referring to was a simple graphical shell, like GEM and others it really didn't do much more than execute programs.
Does this mean that squatters who offer their domains for sale will have to use the domain themselves or lose it? Its hard to understand that Gov-Speak.
www.x10.com
I've got a couple of those X-10 wireless video/audio sender/receivers. They operate on 2.4 GHz and whenever I get radar scanned (or operate my microwave) the picture and sound get hosed. I've been scanned (apparently from the air or space since I live in a gulch) only twice in a 2 month period.
I have a theory. We're already being sucked into a massive black hole at the center of the universe. Due to time dilation effects, we don't notice this, but it does appear as if the rest of the universe is accelerating away from us.
Sorry, PARC did the Alto. GEM was another Windows wannabe. It worked better than Windows 1.0, but both were mostly just GUI ports of DOS.