Copyright violation is not a criminal act. At it's very worse, it caries a 25,000 to 100,000 fine for each infraction, and 2 years in jail.
2 years in jail? And that isn't a criminal act? That's punishment for a felony.
I'm not sure what country you're talking about, but here in the U.S., copyright infringement is a federal criminal offense, with the exception of infringement that doesn't provide a financial gain that totals less than $1,000. Title 17, Section 506 covers this and Title 18, Section 2319 provides the punishment breakdowns.
Server4Me.com has a $49/month leased server deal. For that, you get a P3-500, 64M, 8.4 gig (IDE), and FreeBSD 4.1.
The bandwidth is done two ways. For $49/month you can get up to 3 gig transfer a month or a dedicated 56k.
If it were 2 or 3 guys looking for a shell account and a box to screw around with, that's the best deal I've come across. If you want a serious server, this isn't the deal for you.
I think in your particular situation, I would pass the hat, build a server, and co-locate it at a local ISP. (Hurricane Electric has an acceptable reputation and OpenBSD Journal just moved to a co-lo there.)
Well they aren't the only ones. This article hit ZDNet yesterday and it has things like "...the Mitnick trial, which is slated to commence in early 1999" in it.
Well, it's not packing material, but I've gotten two of these V-Lite video tapes in the mail. Pretty neat. It's essentially a very cheap VHS tape that weighs a fraction of a real tape. One of their claims is that it is unusual enough that people will notice it and want to try it.
If they go after these guys for encouraging cruelty to animals, I won't have faith in our justice system until they go after the producers of Hannibal for encouraging cruelty to humans.
Well, given things like the conviction of Michael Diana for drawing a comic book, free speech doesn't exist in the U.S. On the other hand, if you're a famous football player and want to stab some people to death, it appears that you're good to go. Just don't expect to do a Hertz or Disney commercial afterwards.
Unless you have a lawyer in the family or another source of free legal work, your best bet is to keep your mouth shut. Yes, you might (and probably should) win if they took you to court, but is it worth doing that? You have to deal with the distraction, publicity, up front legal fees, etc. What do you accomplish by bashing the company in a Yahoo! forum?
If you do insist on bashing them, do it verbally. Don't put it in a long-lasting public electronic document. Call your buddies that are still at the company or take them to lunch and vent. Get it out of your system in a way that's less likely to be read back to you in court while you're sitting next to a $250/hour lawyer.
If you've only maintained the system for a "few hours", I doubt you really understand the system well enough to pull off a redesign and rewrite. Not to mention that it'll be a hard sell to management.
I've seen new hire after new hire come into a company, look around at the steaming heap of code, and within a week want to rewrite it all. The best fun (as their underpaid "peer") is being supportive and getting them to go ahead and try it. It's fun watching wiseasses hang themselves.
On the other hand, almost every time I've done a rewrite like this, I kicked myself repeatedly for not doing it sooner. The only times I didn't? When I was that new wiseass that didn't really understand the system. I was slowly sucked into a downward spiral of rewriting more and more pieces until I scrapped it and hauled out the duct tape and chewing gum.
If you really want to pull off a rewrite, just go ahead and sneak it into your schedule. Don't bother trying to get management to understand the issues. They don't see things like you do. They're almost a different species. They figure once something is written and works, it's finished.
Bastard. When I was there we fought over the few dialup lines that had 14.4.
But to answer the question, I doubt the bottleneck is the 10BaseT between your machine and wherever the main line comes in. If you really are getting 2 megabytes per second, it's possible. Maybe you're better off begging for a 100BaseT connection. Or go get a job with Academic Computing, Engineering Computing, or some other place on campus with better bandwidth.
I bought a Logitech Marble Mouse originally as a trackball for MAME, but it worked so well, it's my main mouse.
The only downside I've had is that it isn't precise enough for careful detail work or smooth drawing in Photoshop or sniping in Quake. The way the three ball bearings are laid out, it tends to start to rotate on a diagonal when it starts moving. The semi-randomness of the dots on the ball also make it move a little unpredictably.
Now I use a USB Wacom Graphire for precision stuff. I haven't tried it in games yet, but it'll probably play well.
If I give my mail address to a sales type and then get mailed it's not Spam.
Exactly. It's spam when I get one with 500 people in the To: field all with addresses like adair1@hotmail.com, adair2@hotmail.com, adair3@hotmail.com, etc. If it's from a company I gave my address to, it's my fault. If I bothered to give them a real address, I'm actually probably interested in their email.
On the other hand, if you're collecting your addresses in other ways (third parties), try very hard to only send one piece of spam per e-mail address. If they first e-mail doesn't work, give up. When I get the same spam a dozen times in a week, it makes me pay attention and complain about it.
And always provide a real opt-out link in the e-mail. I probably won't use it (for fear that you will know I actually read your spam), but some people will.
...NeXTcube currently sitting right next to me, running a screensaver, acting as a print server...
When the NeXT came out, I was at Georgia Tech. Several guys in what was essentially the campus IT group got cubes, went to NeXT class, etc. Within a few months, most of them were relegated to being NFS and print servers for the Sun 3 boxes on their desks. I never saw anyone on campus make better use of the cubes.
I think what killed NeXT, in our case, was a combination of the Sun 3 and the Mac II. The Sun3 did everything we needed as an academic Unix workstation (though the NeXT eventually had an X server). The Mac II was the "consumer" machine for all the students that needed to write their term papers and resumes and forget to save them on floppy. The PC? What PC? We did have some IBM PS/2's that ran WordPerfect in DOS.
As neat as the NeXT was, everything was just too expensive. I think that for the price of one cube, we could have gotten at least two Mac II's or maybe even a Mac II and a Sun 3. Even the $50 price for a "floptical" disk was too much for beer-swilling students who usually just swiped a beat-up boot floppy from one of our diskless Mac SE's to save their only copy of their thesis.
I used to have this NeXT poster which stated "In the 90s, we'll probably see only ten real breakthroughs in computers. Here are seven of them." The seven:
R/W Optical Disk
The power of Unix (with a GUI)
VLSI chips
Postscript (display and printing)
Digital sound
Multimedia e-mail
Object-oriented / visual development
So, how many of these were right? We may not have magneto-optical drives, but most of us have cd-burners. Even if you run NT or 2000, you have a very Unix-like OS (much more Unix-like than the MacOS, DOS, or Windows of 1990). VLSI chips was a gimme. Postscript may be the only loser on the list. Who doesn't have digital sound and look at what MP3s have done (the NeXT was the first place I saw pirated digital media files of CD tracks, btw). Multimedia e-mail may not be a huge hit for everyone, but it was a precursor to the web. The NeXT development environment in 1990 still beats a lot of current ones.
The plastic shells tend to generate more static electricity than their metal counterparts and we all know that's bad for PC components. Also, the metal provides shielding from electromagnetic and radio interference.
I always wanted to sneak a BattleBots-style robot into one of the robot firefighting competitions. The robot starts up and out pops a saw-blade or whirling chains. It just demolishes the whole maze/house. Maybe the whole thing catches fire and burns down. Sort of in the spirit of the old Obfuscated C Code Contest's "Best Abuse of the Rules" award.
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Copyright violation is not a criminal act. At it's very worse, it caries a 25,000 to 100,000 fine for each infraction, and 2 years in jail.
2 years in jail? And that isn't a criminal act? That's punishment for a felony.
I'm not sure what country you're talking about, but here in the U.S., copyright infringement is a federal criminal offense, with the exception of infringement that doesn't provide a financial gain that totals less than $1,000. Title 17, Section 506 covers this and Title 18, Section 2319 provides the punishment breakdowns.
Ok, let's go read the law. Sec. 506(a)(2) makes non-commercial copyright infringement in excess of $1,000 a criminal offense.
He better be remember what Apple did when Carl "butthead astronomer" Sagan complained about them using his name.
Server4Me.com has a $49/month leased server deal. For that, you get a P3-500, 64M, 8.4 gig (IDE), and FreeBSD 4.1. The bandwidth is done two ways. For $49/month you can get up to 3 gig transfer a month or a dedicated 56k. If it were 2 or 3 guys looking for a shell account and a box to screw around with, that's the best deal I've come across. If you want a serious server, this isn't the deal for you.
I think in your particular situation, I would pass the hat, build a server, and co-locate it at a local ISP. (Hurricane Electric has an acceptable reputation and OpenBSD Journal just moved to a co-lo there.)
Well they aren't the only ones. This article hit ZDNet yesterday and it has things like "...the Mitnick trial, which is slated to commence in early 1999" in it.
Well, it's not packing material, but I've gotten two of these V-Lite video tapes in the mail. Pretty neat. It's essentially a very cheap VHS tape that weighs a fraction of a real tape. One of their claims is that it is unusual enough that people will notice it and want to try it.
If they go after these guys for encouraging cruelty to animals, I won't have faith in our justice system until they go after the producers of Hannibal for encouraging cruelty to humans.
Wen envisions a small shield on a cell phone that users could flip up next to the phone's antenna, to shield their heads from radiation.
Haven't we had these for years?
Free speech. If you can afford the lawyers.
Well, given things like the conviction of Michael Diana for drawing a comic book, free speech doesn't exist in the U.S. On the other hand, if you're a famous football player and want to stab some people to death, it appears that you're good to go. Just don't expect to do a Hertz or Disney commercial afterwards.
Unless you have a lawyer in the family or another source of free legal work, your best bet is to keep your mouth shut. Yes, you might (and probably should) win if they took you to court, but is it worth doing that? You have to deal with the distraction, publicity, up front legal fees, etc. What do you accomplish by bashing the company in a Yahoo! forum?
If you do insist on bashing them, do it verbally. Don't put it in a long-lasting public electronic document. Call your buddies that are still at the company or take them to lunch and vent. Get it out of your system in a way that's less likely to be read back to you in court while you're sitting next to a $250/hour lawyer.
The disposable device is the brainchild of Randice-Lisa Altschul...
How the heck do you end up with a hyphenated first name?
That's more that one phone for each citizen of the U.S.
Dude, how many AOL CDs and floppies do you have? I've received 6 CDs in the DVD boxes just in the past 6 months.
Idea: set this up on my 3 different VMWare Linux virtual boxes.
If you've only maintained the system for a "few hours", I doubt you really understand the system well enough to pull off a redesign and rewrite. Not to mention that it'll be a hard sell to management.
I've seen new hire after new hire come into a company, look around at the steaming heap of code, and within a week want to rewrite it all. The best fun (as their underpaid "peer") is being supportive and getting them to go ahead and try it. It's fun watching wiseasses hang themselves.
On the other hand, almost every time I've done a rewrite like this, I kicked myself repeatedly for not doing it sooner. The only times I didn't? When I was that new wiseass that didn't really understand the system. I was slowly sucked into a downward spiral of rewriting more and more pieces until I scrapped it and hauled out the duct tape and chewing gum.
If you really want to pull off a rewrite, just go ahead and sneak it into your schedule. Don't bother trying to get management to understand the issues. They don't see things like you do. They're almost a different species. They figure once something is written and works, it's finished.
Bastard. When I was there we fought over the few dialup lines that had 14.4.
But to answer the question, I doubt the bottleneck is the 10BaseT between your machine and wherever the main line comes in. If you really are getting 2 megabytes per second, it's possible. Maybe you're better off begging for a 100BaseT connection. Or go get a job with Academic Computing, Engineering Computing, or some other place on campus with better bandwidth.
I bought a Logitech Marble Mouse originally as a trackball for MAME, but it worked so well, it's my main mouse.
The only downside I've had is that it isn't precise enough for careful detail work or smooth drawing in Photoshop or sniping in Quake. The way the three ball bearings are laid out, it tends to start to rotate on a diagonal when it starts moving. The semi-randomness of the dots on the ball also make it move a little unpredictably.
Now I use a USB Wacom Graphire for precision stuff. I haven't tried it in games yet, but it'll probably play well.
Because I don't have time to deal with all the port-scanning, splits, channel floods, etc.
If I give my mail address to a sales type and then get mailed it's not Spam.
Exactly. It's spam when I get one with 500 people in the To: field all with addresses like adair1@hotmail.com, adair2@hotmail.com, adair3@hotmail.com, etc. If it's from a company I gave my address to, it's my fault. If I bothered to give them a real address, I'm actually probably interested in their email.
On the other hand, if you're collecting your addresses in other ways (third parties), try very hard to only send one piece of spam per e-mail address. If they first e-mail doesn't work, give up. When I get the same spam a dozen times in a week, it makes me pay attention and complain about it.
And always provide a real opt-out link in the e-mail. I probably won't use it (for fear that you will know I actually read your spam), but some people will.
When the NeXT came out, I was at Georgia Tech. Several guys in what was essentially the campus IT group got cubes, went to NeXT class, etc. Within a few months, most of them were relegated to being NFS and print servers for the Sun 3 boxes on their desks. I never saw anyone on campus make better use of the cubes.
I think what killed NeXT, in our case, was a combination of the Sun 3 and the Mac II. The Sun3 did everything we needed as an academic Unix workstation (though the NeXT eventually had an X server). The Mac II was the "consumer" machine for all the students that needed to write their term papers and resumes and forget to save them on floppy. The PC? What PC? We did have some IBM PS/2's that ran WordPerfect in DOS.
As neat as the NeXT was, everything was just too expensive. I think that for the price of one cube, we could have gotten at least two Mac II's or maybe even a Mac II and a Sun 3. Even the $50 price for a "floptical" disk was too much for beer-swilling students who usually just swiped a beat-up boot floppy from one of our diskless Mac SE's to save their only copy of their thesis.
I used to have this NeXT poster which stated "In the 90s, we'll probably see only ten real breakthroughs in computers. Here are seven of them." The seven:
- R/W Optical Disk
- The power of Unix (with a GUI)
- VLSI chips
- Postscript (display and printing)
- Digital sound
- Multimedia e-mail
- Object-oriented / visual development
So, how many of these were right? We may not have magneto-optical drives, but most of us have cd-burners. Even if you run NT or 2000, you have a very Unix-like OS (much more Unix-like than the MacOS, DOS, or Windows of 1990). VLSI chips was a gimme. Postscript may be the only loser on the list. Who doesn't have digital sound and look at what MP3s have done (the NeXT was the first place I saw pirated digital media files of CD tracks, btw). Multimedia e-mail may not be a huge hit for everyone, but it was a precursor to the web. The NeXT development environment in 1990 still beats a lot of current ones.So what are the other 3 or 4 breakthroughs?
Yeah, I was hoping someone had some insight into how Apple did it. Maybe they just have metal shielding around the boards, but I didn't think so.
Personally, though, I run a plain beige InWin
The plastic shells tend to generate more static electricity than their metal counterparts and we all know that's bad for PC components. Also, the metal provides shielding from electromagnetic and radio interference.
Hmm. I wonder how these guys solved that problem?
I always wanted to sneak a BattleBots-style robot into one of the robot firefighting competitions. The robot starts up and out pops a saw-blade or whirling chains. It just demolishes the whole maze/house. Maybe the whole thing catches fire and burns down. Sort of in the spirit of the old Obfuscated C Code Contest's "Best Abuse of the Rules" award.
Or if your dish is near a college campus, to keep drunk students from throwing beer cans into it.
3. Replace stools and chairs with seats from any car I've ever owned.