Yes I have found this setup works very well. Here are some details about how I do it on the cheap (I'm a grad student).
Here is my setup:
I have www.teksavvy.com as my ISP, they offer really good service to Toronto. They offer 200GB/month with fast response times for games, or unlimited/month with slower response time. This costs about $40/month CAN.
Now to get around the dynamic IP I have a free account with www.dyndns.com, they give out.homelinux.org which I think is kinda nice. To update my changing IP I setup ddclient (supported by dyndns) as a service that starts at boot. It checks to see if the IP has changed every 3mins or whatever you set it to.
Then install and setup sshd for ssh connections. This will also enable sftp. If you want you can use RSA keys from work/school/iphone.
Then open up the ssh port on your firewall and router, and away you go.
There are tons of programs that support sftp (eg. filezilla). Most of the time my connections are done from my lab at school, so having stuff encrypted is a must.
For more fun check out SSHFS (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html). This will let you mount ssh shares like a local device.
The only draw back is the upload speed from home is slow, but you get what you pay for. If you need more bandwidth, get synchronous like the parent.
I wonder how this will work out for established artists? I could see a lot of big name artists wanting to get out of their contracts and run on this service. They are already know, so the exposure and some sales are in the bag. But this way the music is cheaper, they get a bigger cut, and keep the rights. I am sure that established artists can pay for their own recording studio and techs, so I don't see the quality of this going down either.
Am I missing anything here, or is this going to be the future of the music industry?
I have always thought it would be great if we were to discover that gravity, or the solar wind was messing up our measurements, making things seem father then they really are. We think that most stuff is 1,000s of light years away, but what if we are wrong? What if they are really only a few light years away? We could send unmanned probes on to other star systems on the hundreds of years time frame with current technology.
I am sure there a lots of reasons why this would not work. But something I always though would be really awesome were it to be true.
As for an inferiority complex, I am not sure. I don't think you can psychoanalyze yourself. But I don't find it depressing. On the contrary, as strange as this may sound, I enjoy making fat jokes. I think its because I'm am on the 'inside' so to speak. Being fat I can make fat jokes and everyone is OK with it. Sort of like how people are allowed make jokes about their own ethnicity, but not other ethnicities.
As for anybody looking good, I agree. It just takes more self control then I have been able to spare. Some day's I just don't want to fight my nemesis, the stairs.
If they insist on seeing me naked, then they do so at their down risk. I will not be held responsible for any ensuing medical complications, or psychological damage incurred upon their staff.
On the plus side I could probably make good money smuggling pot into the US. The TSA agent will either be too busy waving me around the scanner, or screaming "Oh God my eyes!, it burns, it burns!"
I remember taking Young Drivers after I got my Ontario drivers license. The instructor was very explicit: If you are driving on the freeway (eg. the 401), you should be doing 120km/h. If you are asked on a test say 100km/h (the limit), but in real life do 120km/h.
The reason was that everyone on the freeway is doing 120km/h, if you are not moving with the speed of traffic YOU are a traffic hazard.
If these devices were installed, it would cause more accidents because the few cars that have it would be going slower then the speed of the traffic.
I have had a similar experience. I can usually tell where I am and what way is north pretty accurately. But when I moved to the city and started taking the subway/metro, I would get disoriented. As soon as I got underground I would loose my bearings.
It freaked me out the first few times. I would get the platform and have the sudden realization I had no idea which way was north, and hence which train to take. It's the kind of feeling you get when you reach in your pocket only to find you didn't bring your keys. I have lived in the city for 2 years now and I have become accustomed to loosing my sense of direction. But I wonder if given enough time I will adapt, any thoughts on this? Is there something city folk have learned that I am missing?
One problem that I have is that people will call me to fix their computer, but then not let me fix it.The best example I can give is my mother's computer. I built the thing from scratch, she even took pictures of me building the whole thing. Some time later the one of the fans on the computer is making a lot of noise, compressed air doesn't do the trick so I prepare to replace the fan.But no, no. Don't open the computer, you might break it! Of course she regularly kicks the tower to make the noise stop.
I get the same kind of feed back when it comes to software. I would tell my family to use Firefox to stop pop-up windows (this is a few years ago). I install it and show them how to use it. A month goes by and they say they getting pop-ups. I ask them to show me and guess what? They are using IE, because they don't like Firefox. Can't I just make IE not have pop-ups? Eventually I started to use the XP file permissions to block access to iexplore.exe. I would just make up some excuse for why it stopped working (pop-ups, virus, etc.). I know its not the ethical thing to do, but it helped them in the long run. As a bonus they would tell others my story, hopefully that caused some of them to switch too.
I loved it because it had the opposite difficulty style of most games. In most games you are a really tough ship/guy, who needs to fight off hordes of weaker guys/ships. But in Tie Fighter you WERE the dinky POS, two shots and you were fried. For me it made the experience more intense. You couldn't just fly into a group of bad guys and start blasting. You had to have really good situational awareness, because surprises would kill you without a second chance.
Later in the game you would get the Tie Advanced and Tie Defender, which had shields and missiles. But because I spent the first half the game being terrified of being shot, that style of flying stuck with me. Leave the shields weak and put the power to the engines. It ended up making the game a little faster rather then more tank like. The Missile boat was great for the story line, and it was fun to fight capital ships with. They gave you the old "We don't have any good ships left so heres a crappy one ticked out with a bunch of missiles, go get'em tiger."
And finally, Admiral Thrawn. Seriously if they make anymore Star Wars he had better be in them. The Thrawn Trilogy books were awesome, I love that he made it into the game.
Indeed, just look at the recent case where MacLean' Magazine (Canada's version of Time) got taken to the human rights commission for hate speech.
Watching that unfold really opened my eyes to just how draconian some of our hate speech laws are. The human rights commission has their own rules, and run a kangaroo court worthy of Stalin.
MacLean's only got out of it because they have such a large readership. A huge part of the Canadian population was watching the proceedings and the human rights commission had to let MacLean's go. Otherwise the public would have demanded their closure. But from what I have read a few smaller companies and individuals have been taken to the cleaners by these guys.
I am generally pretty happy with the laws here in Canada, but there are a few things that make you wonder what kind of clowns are running this country.
On a happier note, the Canadian RIAA pushed for those stupid levees on our CDs to compensate for piracy. They made a good buck on that scam too. But now the tables have finally turned. We already have a system for compensating them for piracy. They can lobby all they want but the legal precedent is in place. Generally judges are less corrupt then politicians, so we do stand a chance.
Do you know of any books that talk about things like this? I have always wondered how these insurgent groups get along. But from your story it looks like things are more complicated then i realized.
There is no way the RIAA or MPAA is going to win this battle in the long run.
The Internet is, for the most part, pretty lawless. Sure they can bag a few people here and there, but pretty much you can do what you want. Enforcing any kind law on the Internet is, and will always be, very difficult.
As long as one of the networks on the Internet allows something, and people on other networks have access to that network, there is no stopping it.
If the mafia mega corps. keep fighting like this we will just end up with Internet safe havens. Think of the banking world: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, etc. At lot of developing countries would be great for this sort of thing. China, India, Vietnam, Thailand. These places have the infastructure, and people with skills. But the governments are more concerned about producing enough food, and keeping people employed. They won't care about enforcing IP laws.
Also there are some countries who would not follow suit for privacy reasons. Here in Canada it is illegal for the ISPs to match IP addresses with names, unless the police ask. Our privacy laws are pretty decent. So while it may be illegal to download off of bit torrent, there is no legal way to find out who is doing it.
Yes the wget method is a lot better then using lynx. Thats why iPhone really badly needs copy paste. I hope they put it in the new version of the software.
Oh slashdot, I would be so much more productive without you,;)
I have actually found some uses for text based web browsing.
By far the best thing I have found is with my iPhone. I setup rtorrent to watch a directory in my home folder. Then I can use my iPhone to ssh into my home server, browse to btjunkie or piratebay, save the.torrent into the watch directory and away it goes. I usually do it on my way home on the bus, so I can have those "linux distros" downloaded by the time I get home.
Please reply if you have tricks like this of your own! I've just switched to linux full time a few months ago and am always looking for new stuff to try.
While in most cases I would agree with you, there is a lot of "I has a solution" on/. I don't think this is the case here.
The way I see it, these companies hired those marketing dudes, who then told them to bitch about everything and see if they can get anything from it.
What are the chances that they will ban re-selling of games? Pretty low. What does it cost to bitch about it? Almost nothing.
The RIAA has been able to muscle its way into some more money by pointing the finger at piracy, so its not really surprising that other industries are trying their hand at it.
Besides its a perfect scapegoat. Chances are game sales will be down next year due to the economy, so they could just be getting the wambulance ready for the shareholders.
Yes but the flag on the backpack is so that people do not assume that we are Americans.
There is a whole lot more anti-American sentiment then anti-Canadian sentiment.
I know when I traveled to Europe with a tour group were we told to to wear little lapel pins with the Canadian flag on it for this very reason. If we got lost or need help people would be more likely to helps us because we were Canadian rather then American.
I don't know if this is true, but it does have some logic behind it.
While I cannot speak for everyone I feel that I am in the same boat as a lot of people.
Its not the speed, its the lack of choice.
Vista does not offer anything new over XP that I care about. For me there is no advantage to using Vista over XP. On the other hand XP is faster on every type of hardware (at least as far a I can tell). So really its that Vista fails the Features/Speed test, badly.
OK so don't upgrade to Vista you say? Well its not that simple.
1)Most systems today come with Vista on it, then you have to pay to downgrade, and mess around with drivers.
2)Most big organizations (eg. my University) just buy stuff in bulk. They are not going to downgrade all of the new machines they get. So if I need a faster computer to do my simulations I have to get a Vista machine, which as you stated can be 3% to 4% slower, even though the hardware is better.
3)Eventually new software will come out that only supports Vista, or MS will stop supporting XP (and all of the vendors/big corps with it). So Vista will be the only game in town.
I don't bitch about Vista because I don't like. I bitch about Vista because I will be forced to use it. If not now then in the near future. (Sorry I don't think most places are going to let me install linux on my workstation, although I do use it at home.)
MS should go back to the two tier system. Have one set for home users (Vista) and one set for workstations (XP+/Server 2008). That would make me happy.
Of course we could all just get lucky and have linux go mainstream. What? I can dream can't I?
When I was a kid I had dreams like that fairly often. I would not be able to seperate the dream memories from real ones.
These were just dreams about what I do every day which made things awkward. I would remember moving something yesterday, but when I looked it had not moved at all.
One time I dreamed I had talked about something with my mother while my father was in the room. But neither of them remembered any of it. That was really awkward because I remembered it in such detail.
Fortunately I don't get dreams like that anymore. I wondered for a long time if mabey I was just crazy.
You are probably right about the terrorists having a more secure means of communication. So really this does nothing to stop the terrorists.
BUT, it may hurt thier propaganda machine a bit. I don't know how popular these sites where, or what the content was like. But if shutting them down means that a few more people don't sign up then it is probably not a bad thing.
Of course they are now missing out on the ability to track IPs that visit those sites, assuming that they were doing that before they shut them down.
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Yes I have found this setup works very well. Here are some details about how I do it on the cheap (I'm a grad student).
.homelinux.org which I think is kinda nice. To update my changing IP I setup ddclient (supported by dyndns) as a service that starts at boot. It checks to see if the IP has changed every 3mins or whatever you set it to.
Here is my setup:
I have www.teksavvy.com as my ISP, they offer really good service to Toronto. They offer 200GB/month with fast response times for games, or unlimited/month with slower response time. This costs about $40/month CAN.
Now to get around the dynamic IP I have a free account with www.dyndns.com, they give out
Then install and setup sshd for ssh connections. This will also enable sftp. If you want you can use RSA keys from work/school/iphone.
Then open up the ssh port on your firewall and router, and away you go.
There are tons of programs that support sftp (eg. filezilla). Most of the time my connections are done from my lab at school, so having stuff encrypted is a must.
For more fun check out SSHFS (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html). This will let you mount ssh shares like a local device.
The only draw back is the upload speed from home is slow, but you get what you pay for. If you need more bandwidth, get synchronous like the parent.
I wonder how this will work out for established artists? I could see a lot of big name artists wanting to get out of their contracts and run on this service. They are already know, so the exposure and some sales are in the bag. But this way the music is cheaper, they get a bigger cut, and keep the rights. I am sure that established artists can pay for their own recording studio and techs, so I don't see the quality of this going down either.
Am I missing anything here, or is this going to be the future of the music industry?
Cue baseless RIAA lawsuits.
If you live alone or with people who'll put up with it you can watch in your underwear if you like./p>
You do that too?
I have always thought it would be great if we were to discover that gravity, or the solar wind was messing up our measurements, making things seem father then they really are. We think that most stuff is 1,000s of light years away, but what if we are wrong? What if they are really only a few light years away? We could send unmanned probes on to other star systems on the hundreds of years time frame with current technology.
I am sure there a lots of reasons why this would not work. But something I always though would be really awesome were it to be true.
Yes I certainly am joking.
As for an inferiority complex, I am not sure. I don't think you can psychoanalyze yourself. But I don't find it depressing. On the contrary, as strange as this may sound, I enjoy making fat jokes. I think its because I'm am on the 'inside' so to speak. Being fat I can make fat jokes and everyone is OK with it. Sort of like how people are allowed make jokes about their own ethnicity, but not other ethnicities.
As for anybody looking good, I agree. It just takes more self control then I have been able to spare. Some day's I just don't want to fight my nemesis, the stairs.
Guns don't kill people.
How about repeated Pistol-whips to the face? QED.
Having demonstrated that guns can kill people I now demand that we ban all moderately heavy blunt metallic objects.
As an obese man just let me say:
If they insist on seeing me naked, then they do so at their down risk. I will not be held responsible for any ensuing medical complications, or psychological damage incurred upon their staff.
On the plus side I could probably make good money smuggling pot into the US. The TSA agent will either be too busy waving me around the scanner, or screaming "Oh God my eyes!, it burns, it burns!"
I remember taking Young Drivers after I got my Ontario drivers license. The instructor was very explicit: If you are driving on the freeway (eg. the 401), you should be doing 120km/h. If you are asked on a test say 100km/h (the limit), but in real life do 120km/h.
The reason was that everyone on the freeway is doing 120km/h, if you are not moving with the speed of traffic YOU are a traffic hazard.
If these devices were installed, it would cause more accidents because the few cars that have it would be going slower then the speed of the traffic.
I have had a similar experience. I can usually tell where I am and what way is north pretty accurately. But when I moved to the city and started taking the subway/metro, I would get disoriented. As soon as I got underground I would loose my bearings.
It freaked me out the first few times. I would get the platform and have the sudden realization I had no idea which way was north, and hence which train to take. It's the kind of feeling you get when you reach in your pocket only to find you didn't bring your keys. I have lived in the city for 2 years now and I have become accustomed to loosing my sense of direction. But I wonder if given enough time I will adapt, any thoughts on this? Is there something city folk have learned that I am missing?
One problem that I have is that people will call me to fix their computer, but then not let me fix it.The best example I can give is my mother's computer. I built the thing from scratch, she even took pictures of me building the whole thing. Some time later the one of the fans on the computer is making a lot of noise, compressed air doesn't do the trick so I prepare to replace the fan.But no, no. Don't open the computer, you might break it! Of course she regularly kicks the tower to make the noise stop.
I get the same kind of feed back when it comes to software. I would tell my family to use Firefox to stop pop-up windows (this is a few years ago). I install it and show them how to use it. A month goes by and they say they getting pop-ups. I ask them to show me and guess what? They are using IE, because they don't like Firefox. Can't I just make IE not have pop-ups? Eventually I started to use the XP file permissions to block access to iexplore.exe. I would just make up some excuse for why it stopped working (pop-ups, virus, etc.). I know its not the ethical thing to do, but it helped them in the long run. As a bonus they would tell others my story, hopefully that caused some of them to switch too.
Wow, just wow.
is like throwing a drunk Brad Pitt to Oprah's studio audience.
Best analogy ever.
You Sir, are a literary giant.
+1 Awesome.
Same here. I liked it enough to want to see it again. I would especially like to see it in IMAX. Some of the space battles would look really good.
Absolutely. Tie fighter IMHO was by far the best.
I loved it because it had the opposite difficulty style of most games. In most games you are a really tough ship/guy, who needs to fight off hordes of weaker guys/ships. But in Tie Fighter you WERE the dinky POS, two shots and you were fried. For me it made the experience more intense. You couldn't just fly into a group of bad guys and start blasting. You had to have really good situational awareness, because surprises would kill you without a second chance.
Later in the game you would get the Tie Advanced and Tie Defender, which had shields and missiles. But because I spent the first half the game being terrified of being shot, that style of flying stuck with me. Leave the shields weak and put the power to the engines. It ended up making the game a little faster rather then more tank like. The Missile boat was great for the story line, and it was fun to fight capital ships with. They gave you the old "We don't have any good ships left so heres a crappy one ticked out with a bunch of missiles, go get'em tiger."
And finally, Admiral Thrawn. Seriously if they make anymore Star Wars he had better be in them. The Thrawn Trilogy books were awesome, I love that he made it into the game.
Yes, the deluge of .torrents, has reached epic proportions!
Sadly, my spell check only works on words and not meanings. :(
Indeed, just look at the recent case where MacLean' Magazine (Canada's version of Time) got taken to the human rights commission for hate speech.
Watching that unfold really opened my eyes to just how draconian some of our hate speech laws are. The human rights commission has their own rules, and run a kangaroo court worthy of Stalin.
MacLean's only got out of it because they have such a large readership. A huge part of the Canadian population was watching the proceedings and the human rights commission had to let MacLean's go. Otherwise the public would have demanded their closure. But from what I have read a few smaller companies and individuals have been taken to the cleaners by these guys.
I am generally pretty happy with the laws here in Canada, but there are a few things that make you wonder what kind of clowns are running this country.
On a happier note, the Canadian RIAA pushed for those stupid levees on our CDs to compensate for piracy. They made a good buck on that scam too. But now the tables have finally turned. We already have a system for compensating them for piracy. They can lobby all they want but the legal precedent is in place. Generally judges are less corrupt then politicians, so we do stand a chance.
Very interesting. Thanks for the back story.
Do you know of any books that talk about things like this? I have always wondered how these insurgent groups get along. But from your story it looks like things are more complicated then i realized.
There is no way the RIAA or MPAA is going to win this battle in the long run.
The Internet is, for the most part, pretty lawless. Sure they can bag a few people here and there, but pretty much you can do what you want. Enforcing any kind law on the Internet is, and will always be, very difficult.
As long as one of the networks on the Internet allows something, and people on other networks have access to that network, there is no stopping it.
If the mafia mega corps. keep fighting like this we will just end up with Internet safe havens. Think of the banking world: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, etc. At lot of developing countries would be great for this sort of thing. China, India, Vietnam, Thailand. These places have the infastructure, and people with skills. But the governments are more concerned about producing enough food, and keeping people employed. They won't care about enforcing IP laws.
Also there are some countries who would not follow suit for privacy reasons. Here in Canada it is illegal for the ISPs to match IP addresses with names, unless the police ask. Our privacy laws are pretty decent. So while it may be illegal to download off of bit torrent, there is no legal way to find out who is doing it.
Yes the wget method is a lot better then using lynx. Thats why iPhone really badly needs copy paste. I hope they put it in the new version of the software.
Oh slashdot, I would be so much more productive without you, ;)
I have actually found some uses for text based web browsing.
By far the best thing I have found is with my iPhone. I setup rtorrent to watch a directory in my home folder. Then I can use my iPhone to ssh into my home server, browse to btjunkie or piratebay, save the .torrent into the watch directory and away it goes. I usually do it on my way home on the bus, so I can have those "linux distros" downloaded by the time I get home.
Please reply if you have tricks like this of your own! I've just switched to linux full time a few months ago and am always looking for new stuff to try.
Try disabling java in the settings. Made my version run a whole lot faster.
While in most cases I would agree with you, there is a lot of "I has a solution" on /. I don't think this is the case here.
The way I see it, these companies hired those marketing dudes, who then told them to bitch about everything and see if they can get anything from it.
What are the chances that they will ban re-selling of games? Pretty low.
What does it cost to bitch about it? Almost nothing.
The RIAA has been able to muscle its way into some more money by pointing the finger at piracy, so its not really surprising that other industries are trying their hand at it.
Besides its a perfect scapegoat. Chances are game sales will be down next year due to the economy, so they could just be getting the wambulance ready for the shareholders.
Yes but the flag on the backpack is so that people do not assume that we are Americans.
There is a whole lot more anti-American sentiment then anti-Canadian sentiment.
I know when I traveled to Europe with a tour group were we told to to wear little lapel pins with the Canadian flag on it for this very reason. If we got lost or need help people would be more likely to helps us because we were Canadian rather then American.
I don't know if this is true, but it does have some logic behind it.
While I cannot speak for everyone I feel that I am in the same boat as a lot of people.
Its not the speed, its the lack of choice.
Vista does not offer anything new over XP that I care about. For me there is no advantage to using Vista over XP. On the other hand XP is faster on every type of hardware (at least as far a I can tell). So really its that Vista fails the Features/Speed test, badly.
OK so don't upgrade to Vista you say? Well its not that simple.
1)Most systems today come with Vista on it, then you have to pay to downgrade, and mess around with drivers.
2)Most big organizations (eg. my University) just buy stuff in bulk. They are not going to downgrade all of the new machines they get. So if I need a faster computer to do my simulations I have to get a Vista machine, which as you stated can be 3% to 4% slower, even though the hardware is better.
3)Eventually new software will come out that only supports Vista, or MS will stop supporting XP (and all of the vendors/big corps with it). So Vista will be the only game in town.
I don't bitch about Vista because I don't like. I bitch about Vista because I will be forced to use it. If not now then in the near future. (Sorry I don't think most places are going to let me install linux on my workstation, although I do use it at home.)
MS should go back to the two tier system. Have one set for home users (Vista) and one set for workstations (XP+/Server 2008). That would make me happy.
Of course we could all just get lucky and have linux go mainstream. What? I can dream can't I?
When I was a kid I had dreams like that fairly often. I would not be able to seperate the dream memories from real ones.
These were just dreams about what I do every day which made things awkward. I would remember moving something yesterday, but when I looked it had not moved at all.
One time I dreamed I had talked about something with my mother while my father was in the room. But neither of them remembered any of it. That was really awkward because I remembered it in such detail.
Fortunately I don't get dreams like that anymore. I wondered for a long time if mabey I was just crazy.
You are probably right about the terrorists having a more secure means of communication. So really this does nothing to stop the terrorists.
BUT, it may hurt thier propaganda machine a bit. I don't know how popular these sites where, or what the content was like. But if shutting them down means that a few more people don't sign up then it is probably not a bad thing.
Of course they are now missing out on the ability to track IPs that visit those sites, assuming that they were doing that before they shut them down.