I had that the other day. Someone with a bunch of machines running NT4 SP1 and their IT hadn't signed off on SP6 yet (WTF have they been doing for the last 6 years???!!!).
I told them sure, but if it breaks you get no support. For some bizarre reason an unsupported new application is OK but SP6a from 1999 isn't... whetever..
Then there's referrer spam - I host a low hit blog (only really used for product version announcements) and 90% of the hits are from dodgy websites selling fake prescription drugs and (for some reason) german hotel and ticket reservations.
Also wiki spam - you can't host a wiki any more without bots adding hundreds of spam links onto the pages (I gave up and locked it down for editing - I was having to clean up the crap several times a day).
They only have to provide source to those that that they distribute binaries to. They don't distribute binaries of current versions to non-subscribers.
If you are a subscriber (FFS it's only $20!) you can download the source and do what you like with it.
Free Speech != Free Beer. Or do you think redhat are GPL violators because they sell their distro?
You can charge anything you like for GPL software - sveasoft are in compliance with the GPL. Their source code is downloadable from their website for their customers (who are then theoretically free to pass it on).
...except on Windows 64bit where long is still 32bit. size_t and ptrdiff_t are 64bit though.. which makes for some, er, 'interesting' conversion problems.
ADSL line - $50 (or less) Cheap PC - $50 Asterisk - $0
How is that 'monumentally greater than email spam'?
Sending out a recorded message to a few thousand phone numbers is just a matter of writing an agi that does it. Within 6 months they'll ditch asterisk and have purpose-build SIP spamming machines.
Precisely... anyone can setup an asterisk server. Want to spam everyone on vonage? Temporary ISP account, asterisk, feed in the number range and write an agi to do it. Prerecord the message and have it played on answer.
Probably just an autodialler. It's possible it gets back to a real person if you hang on long enough though (otherwise how could they carry out their scam?)
Heh. "providing you can give them a telephone number".
That won't work because:
1. They're an international incoming call. 2. Their caller ID is barred anyway, as I said in my post.
ICTSIS doesn't have any jurastiction in the US (or India) so there is absolutely nothing that can be done.
These kind of problems are the same as the fake domain registration letters that kept being sent out... they were sent from Holland so it took months before the UK authorities managed to track down someone who was interested in the dutch police, and months again before the letters stopped.
This is worse.. the call is untracable to start with.
I get phone spam from the US, and I'm in the UK do-not-call equivalent (the TPS), so never get any UK based phone spam.
You can always tell it though... it's international with the number witheld, and the moment you pick it up someone with a US accent starts "Hi, you've won..." (I slam the phone down before he gets any further).
Get a life. No company who's paying top dollar for decent admins is going to want them spending 3 months setting up their own distro.
They download Redhat (or debian if they're really that good) install it and have it running in a day or two. Then they go for a beer, because everything works.
Unfortunately maybe not... I always use Linux server side, but have a Win2003 VMWare session running active directory. Why? It just works. It's all integrated... you add a user, set their password and kerberos and ldap work across the entire network. I don't have to *know* that it's ldap and kerberos under the hood...nor should I have to.
Sad to say there's nothing close to that for Linux yet (until we get a native version of NDS).
Farting around with ldif files and obscure samba configurations just doesn't come close.
The point being that the product cannot be advertised as costing $100 in the UK (currency issues aside) - it must be advertised as costing $150. They can add a footnode about the rebate but few bother... in fact I've never seen a rebate here apart from £10 off a £200 printer once.
It already has done in effect... it just doesn't use the word 'empire' (this is historical... americans have an aversion to the word).
Mostly it's economic empire - creaping westernisation of countries until they're utterly dependent on you for trade. Occasionally they try to do it by military force, but don't have a great track record at that.
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I had that the other day. Someone with a bunch of machines running NT4 SP1 and their IT hadn't signed off on SP6 yet (WTF have they been doing for the last 6 years???!!!).
I told them sure, but if it breaks you get no support. For some bizarre reason an unsupported new application is OK but SP6a from 1999 isn't... whetever..
bzzt.
Ain't is a contraction of 'is not' not 'am not'
'I aint' is misusage, and rarely heard (it usually indicates a low IQ). 'There aint' - well I've probably said that myself about 20 times today.
Then there's referrer spam - I host a low hit blog (only really used for product version announcements) and 90% of the hits are from dodgy websites selling fake prescription drugs and (for some reason) german hotel and ticket reservations.
Also wiki spam - you can't host a wiki any more without bots adding hundreds of spam links onto the pages (I gave up and locked it down for editing - I was having to clean up the crap several times a day).
Try a WinExec bomb instead. You can bring down the system in 2-3 minutes.
RTFGPL.
They only have to provide source to those that that they distribute binaries to. They don't distribute binaries of current versions to non-subscribers.
If you are a subscriber (FFS it's only $20!) you can download the source and do what you like with it.
OK wait until your hard drive crashes or you upgrade your PC. Oh dear, you have to pay for all your music again. Hope you didn't spend a lot on it.
Free Speech != Free Beer. Or do you think redhat are GPL violators because they sell their distro?
You can charge anything you like for GPL software - sveasoft are in compliance with the GPL. Their source code is downloadable from their website for their customers (who are then theoretically free to pass it on).
...except on Windows 64bit where long is still 32bit. size_t and ptrdiff_t are 64bit though.. which makes for some, er, 'interesting' conversion problems.
They can't do anything but send letters.
They have no standing - only the copyright holders have this, and if they don't do anything then nothing will happen.
They might be able to whip slashdot into a frenzy though.. maybe that's all that it's all about?
Turns out it's a well known US scam artist who's gone international.
See http://pileofcrap.org/news/2069/
Now the whole world hates them, not just the US and canada. Several of my friends have had this call as well.
Hell, those are the scumbags that have been calling me in the UK.
Sounds like they've gone international... they're witholding their CLID though so I couldn't find anything about them.
ADSL line - $50 (or less)
Cheap PC - $50
Asterisk - $0
How is that 'monumentally greater than email spam'?
Sending out a recorded message to a few thousand phone numbers is just a matter of writing an agi that does it. Within 6 months they'll ditch asterisk and have purpose-build SIP spamming machines.
Precisely... anyone can setup an asterisk server. Want to spam everyone on vonage? Temporary ISP account, asterisk, feed in the number range and write an agi to do it. Prerecord the message and have it played on answer.
TBH I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Did I mention that it was a recorded message?
Probably just an autodialler. It's possible it gets back to a real person if you hang on long enough though (otherwise how could they carry out their scam?)
Heh. "providing you can give them a telephone number".
That won't work because:
1. They're an international incoming call.
2. Their caller ID is barred anyway, as I said in my post.
ICTSIS doesn't have any jurastiction in the US (or India) so there is absolutely nothing that can be done.
These kind of problems are the same as the fake domain registration letters that kept being sent out... they were sent from Holland so it took months before the UK authorities managed to track down someone who was interested in the dutch police, and months again before the letters stopped.
This is worse.. the call is untracable to start with.
HPPA is very prevalent in government circles... Sparc is, well, sparc.
OTOH You'd normally run HPUX on the first and Solaris on the second. Not debian.
No, that's just you.
They already do this over standard dialup.
I get phone spam from the US, and I'm in the UK do-not-call equivalent (the TPS), so never get any UK based phone spam.
You can always tell it though... it's international with the number witheld, and the moment you pick it up someone with a US accent starts "Hi, you've won..." (I slam the phone down before he gets any further).
Get a life. No company who's paying top dollar for decent admins is going to want them spending 3 months setting up their own distro.
They download Redhat (or debian if they're really that good) install it and have it running in a day or two. Then they go for a beer, because everything works.
Unfortunately maybe not... I always use Linux server side, but have a Win2003 VMWare session running active directory. Why? It just works. It's all integrated... you add a user, set their password and kerberos and ldap work across the entire network. I don't have to *know* that it's ldap and kerberos under the hood...nor should I have to.
Sad to say there's nothing close to that for Linux yet (until we get a native version of NDS).
Farting around with ldif files and obscure samba configurations just doesn't come close.
Umm no.. just tried them, they all work.
Learn to copy/paste properly..
The point being that the product cannot be advertised as costing $100 in the UK (currency issues aside) - it must be advertised as costing $150. They can add a footnode about the rebate but few bother... in fact I've never seen a rebate here apart from £10 off a £200 printer once.
It already has done in effect... it just doesn't use the word 'empire' (this is historical... americans have an aversion to the word).
Mostly it's economic empire - creaping westernisation of countries until they're utterly dependent on you for trade. Occasionally they try to do it by military force, but don't have a great track record at that.
FYI, iPodLinux doesn't yet support audio output on 4G iPods.
Doesn't that kinda defeat the point?
That's about the UK price (although £388 a little on the high side for a 40GB.. can get them for £350).
The photo costs £450 ($810) here...
Not surprising you don't see too many ipods around.