> So they were fully aware of your intentions from the start? > > What always made us mad was that they always knew what we were > doing before we did it. Then they denied the whole thing. We > set up our accounts with them initially for the purpose of > doing this.
As former owner of Internet Direct, please allow me to set the record straight.
At the time most of our accounts (like the C&S account) were dial up shell and SLIP accounts. We were setting up at least 30 - 50 accounts a day so to say that we knew each customers intentions for their account's use is totally not right.
About four weeks before the incident, C&S did visit our offices and they met with my business partner Bill Fisher. They started to ask vague questions about our capacity and if we offered programming consulting services. Bill started to figure out where they were starting to go with their line of questioning and he told them that we would not help them with any spamming activities. Bill then referred C&S to the AUP document they signed when they joined they service and they left our offices.
From that time to the day of the incident, they found an independent programmer to create the scripts to do the mass spamming.
> They terminated our account in a very short period > of time, a matter of days. And there was a lot of mail that we > were really never able to get. We guessed there were 25,000 to > 50,000 e-mails that never got to us. We eventually got a hard > disk from them some months later that had it all on there, but > we were never completely successful at pulling the data off of > it.
We delivered to their lawyer a 4mm DAT tape two days after the incident. I believe all the info was encoded in ROT 13.:)
I am forced to use W2K for my job. Having Cygwin installed gives me almost a complete *NIX environment (Openssh, Bash, Perl, Python, Postgres, Xfree, etc) that runs seamlessly in a Win32 system. It is completely awesome.
For the engineering side of the house, Earthlink has a $2400 per year budget for training to spend pretty much how you want (with in reason of course). Management gets angry when you do not spend your allotted training dollars. It is pretty cool.
This totally is not true. I use VNC over a 28.8 line all the time and the performance is very good. The thing that is great about VNC is that it adapts to how much bandwidth you have.
Doesn't anyone else think we should have a 'ask the candidates' forum on/.? I think there are a lot of issues that we are concerned about that each parties platform does not address.
Coherent was a great stepping stone for a lot of people to get into the Unix way of things. It certainly was ground breaking in its pricing, $99 for a complete OS and development system. I STILL use my Coherent manual daily.
If anyone is helping Linux gain respect as a Java platform, IBM is doing the most. Their JVMs are the only ones that show the Linux can do the job. Going through the JavaOne site, I do not see anything that reflects this..
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I just want to know why my two LED flashlight was 35 bucks!
SSL on the server side is a no brainer now.. Most clients also implement SSL too.
More important, IMHO, many clients support end to end security via PGP/GPG...
> So they were fully aware of your intentions from the start?
:)
>
> What always made us mad was that they always knew what we were
> doing before we did it. Then they denied the whole thing. We
> set up our accounts with them initially for the purpose of
> doing this.
As former owner of Internet Direct, please allow me to set the
record straight.
At the time most of our accounts (like the C&S account) were
dial up shell and SLIP accounts. We were setting up at least
30 - 50 accounts a day so to say that we knew each customers
intentions for their account's use is totally not right.
About four weeks before the incident, C&S did visit our offices and
they met with my business partner Bill Fisher. They started to
ask vague questions about our capacity and if we offered
programming consulting services. Bill started to figure out
where they were starting to go with their line of questioning
and he told them that we would not help them with any
spamming activities. Bill then referred C&S to the AUP document
they signed when they joined they service and they left our
offices.
From that time to the day of the incident, they found an
independent programmer to create the scripts to do the
mass spamming.
> They terminated our account in a very short period
> of time, a matter of days. And there was a lot of mail that we
> were really never able to get. We guessed there were 25,000 to
> 50,000 e-mails that never got to us. We eventually got a hard
> disk from them some months later that had it all on there, but
> we were never completely successful at pulling the data off of
> it.
We delivered to their lawyer a 4mm DAT tape two days after the
incident. I believe all the info was encoded in ROT 13.
I am forced to use W2K for my job. Having Cygwin installed gives me almost a complete *NIX environment (Openssh, Bash, Perl, Python, Postgres, Xfree, etc) that runs seamlessly in a Win32 system. It is completely awesome.
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Try Chromatix VNC for the Mac.
http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/
If what Lutris is saying is true, will the JBOSS project be able to continue? They are shipping an open source J2EE project now..
For the engineering side of the house, Earthlink has a $2400 per year budget for training to spend pretty much how you want (with in reason of course). Management gets angry when you do not spend your allotted training dollars. It is pretty cool.
nuff said..
Yeah.. but that ThinkNIC thingy is cool...
This totally is not true. I use VNC over a 28.8 line all the time and the performance is very good. The thing that is great about VNC is that it adapts to how much bandwidth you have.
Here is more info that is more current:
e ct ronics.com.au/articles/2a/0c00122a.asp+nec+wireles s+1394&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.dialel
This is just one form of protest.
Also, by over-turning bad patents you will allow more people to use the technology and thus more innovation.
Or 'the Day the Universe Changed' series from James Burke.
Medweb has been using Linux in their distributed telemedicine systems since 1992. (www.medweb.com)
Doesn't anyone else think we should have a 'ask the candidates' forum on
Since you are in Phoenix, that would be your best choice if DSL and COX@HOME is not available.
Since digital signatures are now legally binding, this petition should have more teeth than before the digital signature law was in effect.
I am quite sure that normal CD media will not last more than 50 years.
That was/is the UNIX that is built on top of MacOS.
Coherent was a great stepping stone for a lot of people to get into the Unix way of things. It certainly was ground breaking in its pricing, $99 for a complete OS and development system. I STILL use my Coherent manual daily.
If anyone is helping Linux gain respect as a Java platform, IBM is doing the most. Their JVMs are the only ones that show the Linux can do the job. Going through the JavaOne site, I do not see anything that reflects this..
I am running a three mile 11mbit link via two Wavelan cards. It was much easier and cheaper than this setup.
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