It's boilerplate. Anyone sending email to about this here get's the same response.
My guess is she's probably sipping mint julips under the cottonwoods enjoying here $$$$ from the book and doesn't give a rats ass about being part of a legal predator's actions.
I guess she doesn't care because it's "not her" getting screwed this time.
to accept the fact that you may alianate your entire family. I was involved not in a tech business but in a cleaning business with family. It strained us to the point that I had to quit and things were rough between my sister and I for years.
If all of you are mature abd straight enough character wist it may work. I've seen one or two family business's that have worled, more that have failed.
Why find a substitue when cold weather arrives? Seems to me you have found a perfect solution - an automatic coat warmer! Think about it: When you are home you are not wearing the coat, when you are wearing the coat you are usually not at home. Perfect!
The American blood banks are really picky about your history, just living in Eurpoe for 3 months or more makes you inelegable - mad cow disease is the biggest reason. This knocked a friend of mine off the donor list, she had been giving for decades. She had the priviledge of being stationed in Scottland during her time in the Navy.
They are also picky about additional countries for other reasons. Check out the FAQ at http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/blood/lear n/CJDv.html .
MS DID give away it's "OS" with other products? Most of you pups are probably to young to remember Windows Runtime that came with some of the bigger Windows apps.
How about asking this, can MS afford NOT to give away their OS in a few years? Wine is making good strides in fucntionality, besides that a LOT of people are already skipping the next Office upgrade(s). I know our fortune 500 company is, we're bowing out of the OS XP and Office XP all together.
that you need to upgrade to version X.Y.Z of their "rented" product and pull the plug on the old one. I don't know how many pieces of software that I have just hung on to the old versions despite the fact that there were "newer" "better" versions availiable that just were not worth the $$$ to upgrade.
So when software rental company "X" says they will no longer support / rent product "Y" and I have to eventually reinstall the old "Y" due to crash / hardware upgrade etc. and they can't / won't supply me with a key for "Y" any longer??
I think the sofware "rental" is one of the stupidist flim-flam jobs to come down the pike. Linux just keeps looking better and better - due in part to MS and their cohorts extorting the customer with their practices.
Go ahead MS - self distruct - rent away. Drive up the cost of support through the roof from ignorant users constantly hosing their products and calling in or choking the web servers every other day trying to get new keys. Drive off the corporate customer who just won't stand for it. Make yourself a target for a new breed of virii that screws up your registration key. Image a widespread worm that wipes your precious key out and MS being inundated with millions of phone calls from pissed off customers. I think MS and other companies getting into the "rental" business are setting themselves up for a real big fall.
I'd probably buy a pencil from Bill Gates on a street corner just for "old times sake":)
MS and Nazi Germany?
1) Overtake and snuff out any neighbors (competition). "We have to have room for expansion..."
2) Scorched earth policy - if it won't run Windows exclusivly it won't run anything alse (no install CD w/ PC's, ME's hiding DOS startup, Windows trashing the MBR at every install).
3) Policy of spreading lies and FUD against the enemy.
What'll they do now round up all Open Source writers and put them in a concentration camp? WAIT! I guess they recently started to do that - the recruiters letters to Linux/ Open Source advocates. ???:)
When I see the MSerf's zigheiling Gates I'll be sure.
I know others have said it but I hope this will clear it up a bit:
The additional (or changed) verbage to the @home aggreement is specific to VPN's NOT NAT, however I think that it is a fiar assesment in saying that NAT will probably be the next item to specifically get the ax in their user agreement - the motivation seems to squeeze evey nickle out of users they can.
In @homes way of thinking apparently the limitations seem to be an attempt to limit UPLOAD traffic and to eliminate ANY type of service from being made avaliable from a PC conntected to their service to the outside a.k.a. the big bad Internet.
I strongly suspect it is an attempt to stem the tide of any site that might get a lot of attention (i.e. Slashdoted) that has say an Apache webserver running and literally crush the already fragile bandwidth they supply you with. Another reason for the "no services" rule is to prevent someone relaying gawd awful gigs of email through a poorly setup mail server.
I have already done battle with a local representative of another cable ISP over NAT, they adamently publicly refuse to allow it - for the bandwidth reasons above - although in a meeting mano-a-mano he said to the side something like Look we basically don't care what you do as long as you use only ONE IP and DO NOT have any services running that can be accessed from the outside.
I can't see how they could detect a small VPN or NAT system running as long as it was locked down behind a firewall and not open on porst for these services.
May someone could light a fire under their asses and get the backordered units for CC to ship. I originally bought the unit to give to my mother stock and let HER buy the service. Given the change in TOS I now think that even that isn't possible - IF I ever even get one. If I DO at this point I would be VERY reluctant to give it to my Mom, I'd be to afraid that the company would go under and leave her high and dry without ANY service at all.
Ironically, I sent at least 2 (maybe 3) emails to netpliance MONTHS ago practically begging that they make a broadband appliance without ANY service availiable. Only ONCE did they responded saying that they didn't have any plans for one. Tough for them, they might not be loosing as much and look like such fools if they had made one availiable.
Science leads to Microsoft? What science? Voodoo or witchcraft is more accurate. A touch of this, a touch of that, dance around the mainframe naked and viola! MS Office came forth.
Don't forget that you can use 2 floppies, it is perfectly OK to use 2 3.5 floppies off the controller. Perhaps OS on one and utils on another. This would effectivly double your disk availiability. Hell, I remember years ago there were floppy controllers that would allow up to 4 floppies, if this is still availiable for 3.5" 1.44megs you would have quite a bit of space for a few options. Just a thought.
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del
Will delete MOST of the system. What really works is to put this in a batch file name deleteit.bat like so:
del
Create a shortcut to it with these parameters
start
and place it in the users Startup folder.
Hilarity ensues!
It's boilerplate. Anyone sending email to about this here get's the same response.
My guess is she's probably sipping mint julips under the cottonwoods enjoying here $$$$ from the book and doesn't give a rats ass about being part of a legal predator's actions.
I guess she doesn't care because it's "not her" getting screwed this time.
rm -Rf /users/*
Works every time!
to accept the fact that you may alianate your entire family. I was involved not in a tech business but in a cleaning business with family. It strained us to the point that I had to quit and things were rough between my sister and I for years.
If all of you are mature abd straight enough character wist it may work. I've seen one or two family business's that have worled, more that have failed.
Why find a substitue when cold weather arrives? Seems to me you have found a perfect solution - an automatic coat warmer!
Think about it: When you are home you are not wearing the coat, when you are wearing the coat you are usually not at home.
Perfect!
They are also picky about additional countries for other reasons. Check out the FAQ at http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/blood/lear n/CJDv.html .
How about asking this, can MS afford NOT to give away their OS in a few years? Wine is making good strides in fucntionality, besides that a LOT of people are already skipping the next Office upgrade(s). I know our fortune 500 company is, we're bowing out of the OS XP and Office XP all together.
So when software rental company "X" says they will no longer support / rent product "Y" and I have to eventually reinstall the old "Y" due to crash / hardware upgrade etc. and they can't / won't supply me with a key for "Y" any longer??
I think the sofware "rental" is one of the stupidist flim-flam jobs to come down the pike. Linux just keeps looking better and better - due in part to MS and their cohorts extorting the customer with their practices.
Go ahead MS - self distruct - rent away. Drive up the cost of support through the roof from ignorant users constantly hosing their products and calling in or choking the web servers every other day trying to get new keys. Drive off the corporate customer who just won't stand for it. Make yourself a target for a new breed of virii that screws up your registration key. Image a widespread worm that wipes your precious key out and MS being inundated with millions of phone calls from pissed off customers. I think MS and other companies getting into the "rental" business are setting themselves up for a real big fall.
I'd probably buy a pencil from Bill Gates on a street corner just for "old times sake" :)
MS and Nazi Germany? 1) Overtake and snuff out any neighbors (competition). "We have to have room for expansion..." 2) Scorched earth policy - if it won't run Windows exclusivly it won't run anything alse (no install CD w/ PC's, ME's hiding DOS startup, Windows trashing the MBR at every install). 3) Policy of spreading lies and FUD against the enemy. What'll they do now round up all Open Source writers and put them in a concentration camp? WAIT! I guess they recently started to do that - the recruiters letters to Linux/ Open Source advocates. ??? :)
When I see the MSerf's zigheiling Gates I'll be sure.
How about Gnu Optional Open Security Shell or GOOSH for short :)
I know others have said it but I hope this will clear it up a bit:
The additional (or changed) verbage to the @home aggreement is specific to VPN's NOT NAT, however I think that it is a fiar assesment in saying that NAT will probably be the next item to specifically get the ax in their user agreement - the motivation seems to squeeze evey nickle out of users they can. In @homes way of thinking apparently the limitations seem to be an attempt to limit UPLOAD traffic and to eliminate ANY type of service from being made avaliable from a PC conntected to their service to the outside a.k.a. the big bad Internet.
I strongly suspect it is an attempt to stem the tide of any site that might get a lot of attention (i.e. Slashdoted) that has say an Apache webserver running and literally crush the already fragile bandwidth they supply you with. Another reason for the "no services" rule is to prevent someone relaying gawd awful gigs of email through a poorly setup mail server.
I have already done battle with a local representative of another cable ISP over NAT, they adamently publicly refuse to allow it - for the bandwidth reasons above - although in a meeting mano-a-mano he said to the side something like Look we basically don't care what you do as long as you use only ONE IP and DO NOT have any services running that can be accessed from the outside.
I can't see how they could detect a small VPN or NAT system running as long as it was locked down behind a firewall and not open on porst for these services.
Ironically, I sent at least 2 (maybe 3) emails to netpliance MONTHS ago practically begging that they make a broadband appliance without ANY service availiable. Only ONCE did they responded saying that they didn't have any plans for one. Tough for them, they might not be loosing as much and look like such fools if they had made one availiable.
Science leads to Microsoft? What science? Voodoo or witchcraft is more accurate. A touch of this, a touch of that, dance around the mainframe naked and viola! MS Office came forth.
So what would be first on anyone's agenda in a backwards time travel?
1) Knock off Bill Gates pre MS?
2) Kick all the asses of programmers that insisted on using 2 digit dates?
3) Borrow a few million and invest in the RedHat IPO?
4) Take the current build of Linux and make it a present to Linus back in 1992?
Don't forget that you can use 2 floppies, it is perfectly OK to use 2 3.5 floppies off the controller. Perhaps OS on one and utils on another. This would effectivly double your disk availiability. Hell, I remember years ago there were floppy controllers that would allow up to 4 floppies, if this is still availiable for 3.5" 1.44megs you would have quite a bit of space for a few options. Just a thought.