The Blackberry uses whatever telco you subscribe to but the data portion is end-to-end encrypted. And they're a Canadian company so US laws don't apply. Same goes for Hushmail if memory serves.
My only Windows machine runs Win2k and I've never had the itch to upgrade to XP. I use it for a handful of things that I can't get working under Linux or OpenBSD (USB microscope, burning xbox360 DVDRs, JTAG and BDM software, etc.)
Overall it's been a relatively stable machine, the only reboots being when there's a big update. My next Windows "machine" will probably just be XP in a VM running under Linux for those handful of things that still need Windows.
I gave myself permanent hearing damage cranking up my music loud enough that I could no longer hear the screaming and crying going on in the room behind me.
True story: about 5 years ago a fellow was walking by my office and, as always, I had some music blasting. He walked by, stopped, stepped back and asked "What's that noise?" "Music." "Oh... yeah, it sounded like a hard disk was dying in here."
The 'music', if anyone is interested, was the very start of that Venom song "Black Metal". Sounds like arc welders and chainsaws.
I get it mostly from bittorrent or files I've already had lying about. With about 2 TB of RAID5 on a FreeNAS box I have enough space to keep a lot of stuff for rainy days:) All our kids DVDs are on the server as ISO images, that prevents the damage that 2 year olds seem to be great at doing.
Check out Popcornhour.com. They have a streaming media box for US$179 which plays almost everything: xvid, x264 (.mkv), dvd ISO images, etc. at up to 1080p. I'm not related to the company, just a very happy owner of 2 of these devices.
I'll second (or third) OpenBSD and spamd. I've been using it since very early on and it's just outright awesome.
Even if you don't want to use any of the cool firewalling features in the system, just putting a box with this in front of your mail server acting as an SMTP 'prefilter' will save you oodles of pain. Not a unixish person? Hell, mail me and I'll help you set it up.
Have you actually seen Freenet? The only purpose it's pretty much used for is the exchange of the worst crimes of humanity.
With Freenet you have to actively look for what you want. If you found "the worst crimes of humanity" it's because you were looking for them in the first place.
This is why devs move to consoles, PC gamers treat any attempt to prevent piracy as the end of the world
Most (all?) consoles are well broken, too. I know several people with consoles and the only "legit" discs many of them own are the ones that game with the unit.
Anything that stops leechers pirating games is fine with me.
Nothing like that has been devised. All the protection does is have securom, et al., installed on the machine of people who bought and installed the game. So, oddly enough, there are probably more machines running pirated "clean" copies of most games than there are running "protected" originals. Digital restrictions are just a minor speedbump.
As a side note, when I buy games I always install a crack so I don't need the disc in the drive, game calling home, whatever.
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The Blackberry uses whatever telco you subscribe to but the data portion is end-to-end encrypted. And they're a Canadian company so US laws don't apply. Same goes for Hushmail if memory serves.
Because this is a relatively painless way for "mom & pop" to try Linux. There's no way my dad could "just port and compile with cygwin".
Bahaha, the JesusCunts must be modding tonight.
That was Funny, not Flamebait.
My only Windows machine runs Win2k and I've never had the itch to upgrade to XP. I use it for a handful of things that I can't get working under Linux or OpenBSD (USB microscope, burning xbox360 DVDRs, JTAG and BDM software, etc.)
Overall it's been a relatively stable machine, the only reboots being when there's a big update. My next Windows "machine" will probably just be XP in a VM running under Linux for those handful of things that still need Windows.
Interesting how the ACs come out now.
I did indeed try to be humourous. Check my posting history, not a lot of snide or ridicule.
Good points but, damnit man, I was being facetious. :)
Do laid-off tech workers contribute fewer cycles to open source projects, or more?
Oh, more for sure. Who worries about silly things like paying the bills or putting food on the family's table?
I love Windowmaker! It's my default environment on almost every *nix system I run.
I'm working on my seeminly hundredth coffee this morning after reading and watching Mars stuff until the wee hours. Now you do this to me.
Expect a bill from my employer.
"Thank you, Thought Police!"
I gave myself permanent hearing damage cranking up my music loud enough that I could no longer hear the screaming and crying going on in the room behind me.
True story: about 5 years ago a fellow was walking by my office and, as always, I had some music blasting. He walked by, stopped, stepped back and asked "What's that noise?" "Music." "Oh... yeah, it sounded like a hard disk was dying in here."
The 'music', if anyone is interested, was the very start of that Venom song "Black Metal". Sounds like arc welders and chainsaws.
What news service are you using? My ISP's retention sucks bag.
I get it mostly from bittorrent or files I've already had lying about. With about 2 TB of RAID5 on a FreeNAS box I have enough space to keep a lot of stuff for rainy days :) All our kids DVDs are on the server as ISO images, that prevents the damage that 2 year olds seem to be great at doing.
I'm in Canada. They did have orders opened up but it won't ship the next day; you have to wait for the next container from China. :)
I bet they won't cut funding for that game America's Army...
Check out Popcornhour.com. They have a streaming media box for US$179 which plays almost everything: xvid, x264 (.mkv), dvd ISO images, etc. at up to 1080p.
I'm not related to the company, just a very happy owner of 2 of these devices.
Correct, but they own the infrastructure
Bell doesn't own all the infrastructure...
Test software: Hello Mr. Manson, 1) Is murder legal?
Charles Manson: no
Test software: 2) Is murder bad?
Charles Manson: yes
Test software: 3) Would you feel bad if you murdered someone?
Charles Manson: yes
Test software: 4) Do you presently feel like murdering?
Charles Manson: no
Test software: 5) murder, Murder, MURDER!!!
Charles Manson: no, No, NO!!!
Test software: Congratulations, you have scored 100%. You now have 6 hours of access to the cutlery drawer.
I'll second (or third) OpenBSD and spamd. I've been using it since very early on and it's just outright awesome.
Even if you don't want to use any of the cool firewalling features in the system, just putting a box with this in front of your mail server acting as an SMTP 'prefilter' will save you oodles of pain. Not a unixish person? Hell, mail me and I'll help you set it up.
Not really, almost all (all?) web hosting companies have similar policies.
Have you actually seen Freenet? The only purpose it's pretty much used for is the exchange of the worst crimes of humanity.
With Freenet you have to actively look for what you want. If you found "the worst crimes of humanity" it's because you were looking for them in the first place.
This is why devs move to consoles, PC gamers treat any attempt to prevent piracy as the end of the world
Most (all?) consoles are well broken, too. I know several people with consoles and the only "legit" discs many of them own are the ones that game with the unit.
Anything that stops leechers pirating games is fine with me.
Nothing like that has been devised. All the protection does is have securom, et al., installed on the machine of people who bought and installed the game. So, oddly enough, there are probably more machines running pirated "clean" copies of most games than there are running "protected" originals. Digital restrictions are just a minor speedbump.
As a side note, when I buy games I always install a crack so I don't need the disc in the drive, game calling home, whatever.
heh way to bring back a funny troll.
This means if you want to downgrade to XP
I know a few people who have done this, having a machine that works as they want hardly seems like a downgrade, it's more like a usability upgrade.