I'd just like to add, that my groups have a strict code. If you other something, you only give your phone number and address to respondents that you want to deal with, and you definitely don't have more than one person coming to pick it up, as it wastes peoples time, and fuel.
Freecycle is a community of people who post items that they don't need anymore, or request items that they do. Everything is freely given, you just generally have to pick it up yourself. Yeah it's a Yahoo group, but it's great as a mailing list, and I think more people should join. I am a member of two groups, all locations within these groups are within 15 miles of me, and the amount of activity is really quite large. It's a great way to get rid of stuff without taking it to landfill, and you can find things available which you could never dream of finding on eBay. I'm lucky to live in an area of England where recycling isn't just some crank hippy fad, but is almost as normal as taking your bins out for the garbage collectors. That's the way things should be, and groups like Freecycle are taking it a step further.
I was at Stonehenge once for the summer solstice 8 years or so ago. The police were not letting anyone in to the stones, and there was a huge furore about it. A couple of crustys threw some tins of food at the police, and that was all it took for them to attack us with riot shields and batons. I was in the frontlines, and I was hit with a baton and shield, as well as being kicked in the face by a police horse! I Jumped over the fence and flanked them after a while, got to the stones and was allowed to sit peacefully with my friends whilst the police tried to stop anyone else getting to them:)... but anyway.. the point, my friend managed to get one of the police officers batons, and we walked away. We then decided that it was probably a bad idea to keep the baton, and promptly gave it to some crazy looking bloke. I also barged through a formation of police officers that were facing away from me.
funny that the reaction from the police was really rather mild considering. I can't racall any other opportunity in my life where i could push 8 police officers out of the way whilst they stood neatly in formation without fear of repurcussions. they decided to stop pissing on the party at Stonehenge the year afterwards anyway, and it's been peaceful ever since.
I have to agree with the QuantumG about the retrospect thing too, why I posted really:)
I think people go with RedHat because they want someone else to be responsible for the support. People don't get the level of professional support in CentOS, so businesses are more likely to go with RHEL.
Having said that, my work place recently moved over rather a number of servers to CentOS from RHEL. The licensing fees are probably quite a bit, especially if you don't need the support.
So that's where Darl's been recently. He hasn't been hiding under a rock like everyone hoped. Ballmer has obviously assimilated his soul (although it's debatable that there was a soul there to assimilate in the first instance)
I don't believe that the majority are rootkits. I see tonnes of compromised sites all the time, but not due to compromises of the overall security of the server, they are in fact due to PHP injection attacks. I come across logfile entries of successful attacks daily. Attackers will have executed code hosted on other compromised sites all over the place, stuff like the r57 shell, and c99.txt always appears. They allow the attacker to upload webpages in to any location that the website owner/user has access too.
i'd take with a pinch of salt the notion that the article suggests, namely that the servers have been compromised themselves with rootkits. i've not seen that happen on decently configured UNIX webservers.. i kn ow if 's possible, I just don't think it's common.
I know it's shameful, but i am gloating so much right now. Having followed this story for years, I am finally hearing the news that everyone has waited for. People might be playing this down, but this really is the end for SCO. I still want to seem them dragged through streets of jeering, vegetable throwing hordes, and any other humiliation that can be mustered, but the final nails in their coffin have finally been hammerred in. Darl reminds me of that Iraqi secretary of state guy (saddams buddy), still telling everyone that there are no problems, and the stockholders have no need to worry haha. i would love to see darls head on a spike the most hehe Anyone who isn't pleased at the outcome after the shameful mockery that SCO have been playing through, should be ashamed of themselves.
If i could be bothered to link to a sample of nelson in in the simpsons i would do so right here
you;ll have to excuse my incoherence. I've been up all night after a night shift, and it's 8am now. my words don't really do justice to the gloat and self righteousness i feel right now haha. Everyone knows the SCO group are a parasitical organisation, existing by leeching everything they can get away with. What good have SCO done the citizens of the world? None, they are a blight on this world, and the sooner they're wiped off the face of the planet the better. We all know that the world could be a better place with true collaboration such as that displayed by the open source community in all its divisions, Even big corporate entities with proprietary products provide something which people are willing to pay for, but SCO, they do nothing apart from make their wallets fatter at others expense.
The IDE that comes with python, IDLE, lists arguments for a method as you type it (after typing the leading parentheses). The way the documentation is actually integrated in to the language itself is also fantastic, and the python quick reference is brilliant too, as well as the tutorials and other documentation available. If you use an IDE like Pida, then you have documentation available just a tap away too. I don't think the argument about the documentation being lacking really stands up to muc, and the fact is, that once you know about the language, it's so intuitive that you really can just learn new classes/libraries without too much effort. In fact, with ipython, or with a few lines of startup script for the python interpreter, you can have tab completion of classes, methods and variables. This is just fantastic for finding your way around the language and various modules.
Something to note about PHP, and the learning to use it element is that a lot of naming conventions and the like are totally inconsistent, which reflects the roots of PHP really. It never started as a large and comprehensive language, the name says it all 'Personal HomePage tools'. Python however was created to be elegant and consistent. it really does succeed in that goal. Where pyton really doesn't stand up to PHP is in the way it weaves in with HTML, but python is a general purpose programming language, not really a web language.
I don't want to say that PHP sucks, and perl and python are fantastic... but I just said it, so there!
I have always given kudos to nvidia for producing a very good driver for linux [good as in, performance and stability wise], but this really changes everything. i don't even know anything about ati cards, ive not really needed to in the last 10 years since starting to use linux full time, but if ati can give me more bang for my buck, then they will definitely be on the cards next time i buy a card. i bought a 7950gt last month, so it should be a while, and by then. the drivers produced may be good enough by then:]
I must say, it's good to know where all that was coming from. I rarely get spam, as I use a mailserver with greylisting, and any spam I do get is generally filtered correctly using Amavis/Spamassassin and ClamAV. This greeting card stuff though has plagued me. It's been marked as spam alright, but it looks like the botnets are starting to use proper SMTP servers to relay now, rather than just one shot attempts to directly connect to mailservers on port 25. A lot of outgoing traffic on port 25 is blocked from most ADSL networks nowadays, so it's more common to have to relay through your ISP's, or another relay server. This is going to make greylisting redundant pretty soon, as it works purely on the basis that any client connection which fails first time, will try again later as per the RFC's. If the Bots are relaying through RFC compliant servers, then there really isn't any point in the greylisting anymore. It's just a technology that provides a little temporary relief from the problem.
Nice to know why the greeting card stuff started and stopped so abrubtly regardless.
I have found that the Blackberry GPS is actually very good. It always shows a birds eye view of pretty much the precise location you're in (in England). Don't know how many Blackberries you've got, but I can't agree with your statement.
Right, now to create a plugin which just changes the user-agent that firefox announces itself as. It's doable in opera which is quite good. It's probably doable in firefox already.. I'd like to know how. At the end of the day, it wouldn't be too hard for me to put together a proxy program that swaps out the user agent string in the tcp stream hehe. i'm sure it won't come to that.
Anyway, i use ad blockers because of the intrusive and annoying crap that loads of 3rd rate sites plaster all over the place to try and make a quick buck. people should realise that actually having something worthwhile on your site is a much better way to make money than creating a medium for adverts and trying to draw as many hits as possible. i don't block ads on most sites really, but if i find an ad which actually annoys me, then i'll block it.
Every 50,000 years or so, the earths polarity changes as the earths mantle currents change, and whilst this changeover is taking place, the van allen belts which protect us from cosmic rays effectively shut down, and huge amounts of cosmic radiation hit the earth. This could cause extinctions, as well as evolution.
The great extinction of close to 300 million years ago was likely to be down to the Siberian basalt lakes, vast lakes of lava which heated up the earth, which in turn released loads of frozen methane from the bottom of the seabed, warming the earth even more.
There is geological evidence for both of these, such as the atlantic ridge pumping out rock which is expanding both east and west as the European and American continents are push away from each other. The rock changes magnetic polarity in strips as it is pushed away, and the timeline of the the change in earths polarity has been extrapolated from this. We also have the strata in greenland which shows a black layer caused by the basalt lakes, dated almost 300 million years ago..
Just some random related ideas which could be responsible for the same sort of thing.
... when you can communicate with holographic representations of people, a la star wars.
I don't think that studies like this prove a lot... I live with a 28 year old who probably sends a thousand text messages a month, i personally cannot be bothered to try and key more than one or two words with a phone keypad, and I much prefer instant messaging or email. A lot of young people do nothing more than sit around chatting with their friends or whatnot, and this is just reflected in their use of the internet. Most people grow out of wanting to spend their whole lives socialising, and email is a nice unintrusive way of communication.
Well, here are my results in Firefox 2.0.0.3
From the 43 selectors 42 have passed, 0 are buggy and 1 are unsupported (Passed 577 out of 578 tests)
I'm not entirely sure which the unsupported one is.
I remember the days when RedHat used to install sendmail and have it running by default! I always used to wonder why my system ran at pretty much half speed when I first got broadband in 2000 or so. When i killed off sendmail, it would return to normal. It wasn't for a while that I realised people were relaying mail through me in their droves!!
To this day I'm not sure if it was an exploit, or that the service was running as an open relay by default. I dread to think (and I know that I shouldn't have had unnecessary services running, on a machine with nothing in between it and the internet, with no firewall too, but I was a programmer, not a sysadmin:) )
After hosing my archlinux install last week (fdisk'ing and mkfs'ing the wrong partitions when installing ipodlinux:) ) I thought I'd try go back to Gentoo, which I'd left behind during a period of dial-up internet hell. Archlinux was a lot easier to deal with on dialup. Anyhow, I thought I'd give the installer a go in an effort to get an install up and running quickly. I have to say that, at the moment, I don't recommend it. It caused me numerous headaches, and in the end, I basically didn't get a working install of it, so I decided to just go for the classic stage1. I managed to get this up and running nice and quickly, without referring to the handbook at all. The installer is easy?! I think not. I'm currently sat here with a nicely running box. The funny thing is, I have found out that everyone thinks stage1 is a waste of time nowadays, and rebuilding the system from a stage3 is much easier, but hell, it's all working now.
Maybe they should continue working on the installer, but I would advise that people stay away from it unless they are testing it out. I think the Gentoo people should avoid touting it as the latest greatest thing too. If people think that it's the way to go, then I'm confident that they will end up frustrated, and possibly give up entirely on Gentoo, which would be a shame, as it's really quite a good distro.
It seems to me that people are far too concerned with how other people should use their computers. I for one advocate the use of Linux in business and government situations, but don't really feel that average desktop users should take the plunge. Why? Well I don't know. I'd love to see Windows binned, I find that it spends more time trying to tell you what to do than just letting you do whatever you need to, and I find even the simplest thing that I'd be able to do on my Linux box a complete pain in the arse on Windows, however, the complete reverse is true for a user who just doesn't give a crap about the power that UNIX and/or GNU tools can yield if you just dedicate some time to learning about them. I'd never recommend vim to your average user who just wants to open an ini file and change a key=value pair (oh wait, that's an advanced windows user ), I'd just tell them to use notepad, I'm not going to spend my life trying to teach someone how to do something like that. I'll give them the quickest option to get what they need. If someone wants to play the latest games, use the latest IE centric websites, pay loads of money to AV vendors for a false sense of security, then Windows will basically give them what they want.
However, on the other side of the fence, I believe that government and infrastructure should be centred around open source, in fact, I believe that there's a moral argument for this as well. I don't want my personal details stored and accessed using the Microsoft operating system, despite MSSQL being pretty solid. If globalism is really happening, then infrastructure should really be about the human race cooperating, not how much a particular vendor donates to the government etc etc (thinking MS brownnosing the UK govt. here, and vice versa).I want openness and honesty from the governments of the world who should be here serving the people, but it seems that they're too busy serving large multinational corporations and hiding everything they do in the interests of 'national security'.
I don't disagree with paying money for software, not in the least. There's a lot of time and money going in to creating software (yes that means linux based software too (yes. money... real money!) and I don't see why businesses and individuals shouldn't receive appropriate monetary renumeration for their time
At the end of the day, MS started off being all about PC's. Single user operating systems, simple enough just to let the user run their programs. UNIX started life for business machines, and was always designed to be multi user.
Anyhow, this is more like a few things that should be discussed rather than a complete synopsis of my angle on things. At the end of the day, I still don't know what to think, but that's because _I_ don't know what's best for everyone, and I'm not arrogant enough to pretend that I have all the answers.
I can't believe you were the first person to actually notice this, and beat me to it:) a cease and desist letter doesn't really mean anything, it's just a friendly warning, and I really doubt they're going to take it that much further
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I'd just like to add, that my groups have a strict code. If you other something, you only give your phone number and address to respondents that you want to deal with, and you definitely don't have more than one person coming to pick it up, as it wastes peoples time, and fuel.
is there an echo in here ;P
;)
Or is it just a case that great minds think alike
Freecycle is a community of people who post items that they don't need anymore, or request items that they do. Everything is freely given, you just generally have to pick it up yourself. Yeah it's a Yahoo group, but it's great as a mailing list, and I think more people should join. I am a member of two groups, all locations within these groups are within 15 miles of me, and the amount of activity is really quite large. It's a great way to get rid of stuff without taking it to landfill, and you can find things available which you could never dream of finding on eBay. I'm lucky to live in an area of England where recycling isn't just some crank hippy fad, but is almost as normal as taking your bins out for the garbage collectors. That's the way things should be, and groups like Freecycle are taking it a step further.
I do like eBay too though.
so why install flash just to block it with some stupid plugin?
This Asimov story is unbelievably apt :)
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
I was at Stonehenge once for the summer solstice 8 years or so ago. The police were not letting anyone in to the stones, and there was a huge furore about it. A couple of crustys threw some tins of food at the police, and that was all it took for them to attack us with riot shields and batons. I was in the frontlines, and I was hit with a baton and shield, as well as being kicked in the face by a police horse! I Jumped over the fence and flanked them after a while, got to the stones and was allowed to sit peacefully with my friends whilst the police tried to stop anyone else getting to them :) ... but anyway.. the point, my friend managed to get one of the police officers batons, and we walked away. We then decided that it was probably a bad idea to keep the baton, and promptly gave it to some crazy looking bloke. I also barged through a formation of police officers that were facing away from me.
funny that the reaction from the police was really rather mild considering. I can't racall any other opportunity in my life where i could push 8 police officers out of the way whilst they stood neatly in formation without fear of repurcussions. they decided to stop pissing on the party at Stonehenge the year afterwards anyway, and it's been peaceful ever since.
I have to agree with the QuantumG about the retrospect thing too, why I posted really :)
I think people go with RedHat because they want someone else to be responsible for the support. People don't get the level of professional support in CentOS, so businesses are more likely to go with RHEL. Having said that, my work place recently moved over rather a number of servers to CentOS from RHEL. The licensing fees are probably quite a bit, especially if you don't need the support.
if only the raving loony party had won in england during the 80's, we might not be in such a mess now :(
So that's where Darl's been recently. He hasn't been hiding under a rock like everyone hoped. Ballmer has obviously assimilated his soul (although it's debatable that there was a soul there to assimilate in the first instance)
I don't believe that the majority are rootkits. I see tonnes of compromised sites all the time, but not due to compromises of the overall security of the server, they are in fact due to PHP injection attacks. I come across logfile entries of successful attacks daily. Attackers will have executed code hosted on other compromised sites all over the place, stuff like the r57 shell, and c99.txt always appears. They allow the attacker to upload webpages in to any location that the website owner/user has access too.
i'd take with a pinch of salt the notion that the article suggests, namely that the servers have been compromised themselves with rootkits. i've not seen that happen on decently configured UNIX webservers.. i kn ow if 's possible, I just don't think it's common.
I know it's shameful, but i am gloating so much right now. Having followed this story for years, I am finally hearing the news that everyone has waited for. People might be playing this down, but this really is the end for SCO. I still want to seem them dragged through streets of jeering, vegetable throwing hordes, and any other humiliation that can be mustered, but the final nails in their coffin have finally been hammerred in. Darl reminds me of that Iraqi secretary of state guy (saddams buddy), still telling everyone that there are no problems, and the stockholders have no need to worry haha. i would love to see darls head on a spike the most hehe Anyone who isn't pleased at the outcome after the shameful mockery that SCO have been playing through, should be ashamed of themselves.
If i could be bothered to link to a sample of nelson in in the simpsons i would do so right here
you;ll have to excuse my incoherence. I've been up all night after a night shift, and it's 8am now. my words don't really do justice to the gloat and self righteousness i feel right now haha. Everyone knows the SCO group are a parasitical organisation, existing by leeching everything they can get away with. What good have SCO done the citizens of the world? None, they are a blight on this world, and the sooner they're wiped off the face of the planet the better. We all know that the world could be a better place with true collaboration such as that displayed by the open source community in all its divisions, Even big corporate entities with proprietary products provide something which people are willing to pay for, but SCO, they do nothing apart from make their wallets fatter at others expense.
May you rust in pieces hahahaha
The IDE that comes with python, IDLE, lists arguments for a method as you type it (after typing the leading parentheses). The way the documentation is actually integrated in to the language itself is also fantastic, and the python quick reference is brilliant too, as well as the tutorials and other documentation available. If you use an IDE like Pida, then you have documentation available just a tap away too. I don't think the argument about the documentation being lacking really stands up to muc, and the fact is, that once you know about the language, it's so intuitive that you really can just learn new classes/libraries without too much effort. In fact, with ipython, or with a few lines of startup script for the python interpreter, you can have tab completion of classes, methods and variables. This is just fantastic for finding your way around the language and various modules.
Something to note about PHP, and the learning to use it element is that a lot of naming conventions and the like are totally inconsistent, which reflects the roots of PHP really. It never started as a large and comprehensive language, the name says it all 'Personal HomePage tools'. Python however was created to be elegant and consistent. it really does succeed in that goal. Where pyton really doesn't stand up to PHP is in the way it weaves in with HTML, but python is a general purpose programming language, not really a web language.
I don't want to say that PHP sucks, and perl and python are fantastic... but I just said it, so there!
I have always given kudos to nvidia for producing a very good driver for linux [good as in, performance and stability wise], but this really changes everything. i don't even know anything about ati cards, ive not really needed to in the last 10 years since starting to use linux full time, but if ati can give me more bang for my buck, then they will definitely be on the cards next time i buy a card. i bought a 7950gt last month, so it should be a while, and by then. the drivers produced may be good enough by then :]
I must say, it's good to know where all that was coming from. I rarely get spam, as I use a mailserver with greylisting, and any spam I do get is generally filtered correctly using Amavis/Spamassassin and ClamAV. This greeting card stuff though has plagued me. It's been marked as spam alright, but it looks like the botnets are starting to use proper SMTP servers to relay now, rather than just one shot attempts to directly connect to mailservers on port 25. A lot of outgoing traffic on port 25 is blocked from most ADSL networks nowadays, so it's more common to have to relay through your ISP's, or another relay server. This is going to make greylisting redundant pretty soon, as it works purely on the basis that any client connection which fails first time, will try again later as per the RFC's. If the Bots are relaying through RFC compliant servers, then there really isn't any point in the greylisting anymore. It's just a technology that provides a little temporary relief from the problem. Nice to know why the greeting card stuff started and stopped so abrubtly regardless.
I have found that the Blackberry GPS is actually very good. It always shows a birds eye view of pretty much the precise location you're in (in England). Don't know how many Blackberries you've got, but I can't agree with your statement.
Right, now to create a plugin which just changes the user-agent that firefox announces itself as. It's doable in opera which is quite good. It's probably doable in firefox already.. I'd like to know how. At the end of the day, it wouldn't be too hard for me to put together a proxy program that swaps out the user agent string in the tcp stream hehe. i'm sure it won't come to that.
Anyway, i use ad blockers because of the intrusive and annoying crap that loads of 3rd rate sites plaster all over the place to try and make a quick buck. people should realise that actually having something worthwhile on your site is a much better way to make money than creating a medium for adverts and trying to draw as many hits as possible. i don't block ads on most sites really, but if i find an ad which actually annoys me, then i'll block it.
screw this guy, really.
Every 50,000 years or so, the earths polarity changes as the earths mantle currents change, and whilst this changeover is taking place, the van allen belts which protect us from cosmic rays effectively shut down, and huge amounts of cosmic radiation hit the earth. This could cause extinctions, as well as evolution.
The great extinction of close to 300 million years ago was likely to be down to the Siberian basalt lakes, vast lakes of lava which heated up the earth, which in turn released loads of frozen methane from the bottom of the seabed, warming the earth even more.
There is geological evidence for both of these, such as the atlantic ridge pumping out rock which is expanding both east and west as the European and American continents are push away from each other. The rock changes magnetic polarity in strips as it is pushed away, and the timeline of the the change in earths polarity has been extrapolated from this. We also have the strata in greenland which shows a black layer caused by the basalt lakes, dated almost 300 million years ago..
Just some random related ideas which could be responsible for the same sort of thing.
Right. Now it's time to RTFA!
Mix this up with python, and I'm there!
... when you can communicate with holographic representations of people, a la star wars.
I don't think that studies like this prove a lot... I live with a 28 year old who probably sends a thousand text messages a month, i personally cannot be bothered to try and key more than one or two words with a phone keypad, and I much prefer instant messaging or email. A lot of young people do nothing more than sit around chatting with their friends or whatnot, and this is just reflected in their use of the internet. Most people grow out of wanting to spend their whole lives socialising, and email is a nice unintrusive way of communication.
Just a few scattered thoughts on the matter
Well, here are my results in Firefox 2.0.0.3 From the 43 selectors 42 have passed, 0 are buggy and 1 are unsupported (Passed 577 out of 578 tests) I'm not entirely sure which the unsupported one is.
I remember the days when RedHat used to install sendmail and have it running by default! I always used to wonder why my system ran at pretty much half speed when I first got broadband in 2000 or so. When i killed off sendmail, it would return to normal. It wasn't for a while that I realised people were relaying mail through me in their droves!!
:) )
To this day I'm not sure if it was an exploit, or that the service was running as an open relay by default. I dread to think (and I know that I shouldn't have had unnecessary services running, on a machine with nothing in between it and the internet, with no firewall too, but I was a programmer, not a sysadmin
After hosing my archlinux install last week (fdisk'ing and mkfs'ing the wrong partitions when installing ipodlinux :) ) I thought I'd try go back to Gentoo, which I'd left behind during a period of dial-up internet hell. Archlinux was a lot easier to deal with on dialup. Anyhow, I thought I'd give the installer a go in an effort to get an install up and running quickly. I have to say that, at the moment, I don't recommend it. It caused me numerous headaches, and in the end, I basically didn't get a working install of it, so I decided to just go for the classic stage1. I managed to get this up and running nice and quickly, without referring to the handbook at all. The installer is easy?! I think not. I'm currently sat here with a nicely running box. The funny thing is, I have found out that everyone thinks stage1 is a waste of time nowadays, and rebuilding the system from a stage3 is much easier, but hell, it's all working now.
Maybe they should continue working on the installer, but I would advise that people stay away from it unless they are testing it out. I think the Gentoo people should avoid touting it as the latest greatest thing too. If people think that it's the way to go, then I'm confident that they will end up frustrated, and possibly give up entirely on Gentoo, which would be a shame, as it's really quite a good distro.
It seems to me that people are far too concerned with how other people should use their computers. I for one advocate the use of Linux in business and government situations, but don't really feel that average desktop users should take the plunge. Why? Well I don't know. I'd love to see Windows binned, I find that it spends more time trying to tell you what to do than just letting you do whatever you need to, and I find even the simplest thing that I'd be able to do on my Linux box a complete pain in the arse on Windows, however, the complete reverse is true for a user who just doesn't give a crap about the power that UNIX and/or GNU tools can yield if you just dedicate some time to learning about them. I'd never recommend vim to your average user who just wants to open an ini file and change a key=value pair (oh wait, that's an advanced windows user ), I'd just tell them to use notepad, I'm not going to spend my life trying to teach someone how to do something like that. I'll give them the quickest option to get what they need. If someone wants to play the latest games, use the latest IE centric websites, pay loads of money to AV vendors for a false sense of security, then Windows will basically give them what they want.
However, on the other side of the fence, I believe that government and infrastructure should be centred around open source, in fact, I believe that there's a moral argument for this as well. I don't want my personal details stored and accessed using the Microsoft operating system, despite MSSQL being pretty solid. If globalism is really happening, then infrastructure should really be about the human race cooperating, not how much a particular vendor donates to the government etc etc (thinking MS brownnosing the UK govt. here, and vice versa).I want openness and honesty from the governments of the world who should be here serving the people, but it seems that they're too busy serving large multinational corporations and hiding everything they do in the interests of 'national security'.
I don't disagree with paying money for software, not in the least. There's a lot of time and money going in to creating software (yes that means linux based software too (yes. money... real money!) and I don't see why businesses and individuals shouldn't receive appropriate monetary renumeration for their time
At the end of the day, MS started off being all about PC's. Single user operating systems, simple enough just to let the user run their programs. UNIX started life for business machines, and was always designed to be multi user.
Anyhow, this is more like a few things that should be discussed rather than a complete synopsis of my angle on things. At the end of the day, I still don't know what to think, but that's because _I_ don't know what's best for everyone, and I'm not arrogant enough to pretend that I have all the answers.
I can't believe you were the first person to actually notice this, and beat me to it :) a cease and desist letter doesn't really mean anything, it's just a friendly warning, and I really doubt they're going to take it that much further
watch -n 2 wget http://www.walmart.com/swap/SwapEntry.do?dslURL=/s wap/LoadMain.do%3FmainCategoryId%3D2500