OK. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers act is the law in question. Under it:
If you don't hand over your private keys, you face two years in jail.
If you tell anyone about the insident, you go to jail for FIVE years.
ISP's are responsible for buying the gear to perform the monitoring.
And ALL net traffic either coming from or going to a British site go through MI-5. (That's like the NSA with FBI-like police powers for an American analogy.)
So, for example, if I worked as a sysadmin for a company with encrypted hard drives, and MI-5 drops by and demands the hard drives be opened, and I say, "I can't do that. The information on our encrypted systems are classified.", I get to go to a British jail for 24 months. If I have the audacity to report the incident to the CTO (or whoever is in charge of our IT), I could go to jail for 5 years, and be so far behind the SOTA (State Of The Art) I would need at least a year to recover to be employable!
So, I say that we push to screw Britain for screwing us.
If you have a email box in a.uk domain, inform the owners that you wish your account terminated and your files wiped.
If you check out the BBC, ITN News, or the Financial Times, you should stop visiting their websites.
Scrap arrangements to visit the UK.
Inform companies that are contemplating European expansion that the UK is anti-business because of the RIP act.
And most importantly, actually tell people why the UK should be given the Internet Death Penalty.If the Home Office can't trust its citizens with their own affairs, then we shouldn't help them.
Or the GNU AIM client. It's at Marko.net and it's very, very good. I have a surplus of friends on A-hole and it's a good deal easier to contact them through the IM client than through the telephone.. or email.. or postally.. or any other way.
And as far as the complaint that you 'get IM's at inopportune times': TURN OFF THE CLIENT!
My favorite line from a not-too-recent seminar with a Samba core team coder:
We had to make it bug-by-bug compatible with M$.
I like the basic tenor: If it was built on NT code, then chop it. (It ain't GNU then anyways.) If it was clean room (aka raw GNU code from the ground up) then it is protected.
[JIM LEHRER]: All right, so we have a bunch of quickies.
Today's panel consists of one person: d.valued, a Slashdot-dot-org regular, self described 'Karma whore', and the only person who was close enough to the studios so that we could ask him off the street. Where are the regular persons, you ask? The pundits and newspaper reporters?
We had to cut them out for the rest of the election season because the damned Corporation for Public Broadcasting check, bounced! Yes, you cheap bastards, support PBS and maybe next time we can actually use CAMERAS![d.valued]: It's good to be here.
[JL]: Shut up, start typing, and let's review!
Issue 1: Internet over Power Lines.
Instead of worrying about how slow that 56k modem is in connecting to my porn, err, news sites, now we can save the phones for more important things, like actually talking to people.
[d.v]: Uh, I don't like the thought of a T1 that everyone can access. I'll stick with phone lines, or better yet, cable modems! it is illegal to tap a cable line without a high-level-of-proof warrant! :
[JL]: Fine, whatever.
Issue Two: A Spaceship For A Half-Million? Apparently, it's possible to buy a kit that will let you use methane and liquid oxygen to fly sub-orbitally!
One nice thing about methane: EVERYONE produces it! Maybe I can swipe a bottle of oxygen and fly to the Caymans and enjoy my offshore accounts!
[d.v]: No contest! I'll get you drinks!
[JL]: No way. I don't swing that way!
Issue Three: Linux is the Best Way To Copy A Disk.
[d.v]: Please to be reading the laptop.
[JL]: "Don't Trust The State"?
[d.v]: No, the OTHER one.
[JL]: "Linuxgruven." I see. I don't touch Unix with a ten foot pole.
[d.v]: Loser.
[JL]: Hey, I make the snide remarks!
Issue Four: The Presidential Quake Skins: A Threat for the future?
This skin is another problem with video games in this country! The violence implied with this, uh, 'skin', is obvious: you are to kill the VP's! Another skin - which my sources tell me is 'damned kool', the Republican and Democratic candidates are also targets!
[d.v]: You should see my skin. It's Ralph Nader. And NOTHING sticks to him.
You should see it against the Republocrats and Democritans.
[JL]: Thank God I'm out of time. I have to screw with my social-security check to make sure I can afford HEAT in the studio next week!
Good night!
In a letter widely distributed on the Internet, Moore asked the majority of Americans -- the non voters -- to rebel by casting their votes for Nader.
"Friends, we are losing our democratic control over our country - Corporate America has merged and morphed itself to such an extent that just a
handful of companies now call the shots. They own Congress. They own us," Moore wrote in the letter addressed to non voters.
One vote DOES count: The Republocrats took over the House in '94 by winning 19 districts with under 1,000 votes each. Assuming the total number is 19,000, that translates to one vote per school district in the US.
Non-voters are the largest political force in America: Consider that the predictions say that only 46-49% of those eligible to vote actually do. That, my friends, makes for a plurality. The non-voters actually construe more than half the electorate and are their voices heard? The shortwave broadcast I heard suggested that if every person who was to vote Nader called two of their friends and converted them from the Legions of Morons (the republocrats and Democritans), then Nader would be the Big Dog.
To get involved costs something, but not getting involved costs more. Moore talked about how he wanted to get on a school board to throw out his principal, who he felt was unfair. He was a lazy bastard and called the board of elections, which told him: 1. Even though he was barely 18, he could run. 2. He only needed 25 signatures to get on the ballot. 3. They would mail him the petition. He succeeded in terminating the principal AND the assistant principal.
Nader has done more quantitative good than both major-party candidates combined. Airbags and the NHTSA are thanks to Ralph Nader's work against GM. We are not as exposed to radioactive matter thanks to Nader.
Remember that unlike the phone system (where the initiating client pays for the call to another hardline (and other cell phones in MOST OF THE WORLD (hint, hint, fcc!)), the Internet world is, face it, paid for by the servers.
The servers need the fat pipe because they are the ones that need to be publicly available. And pipe don't come cheap. A T1 is $1k per month, and is well out of the range of the average humanoid. (Make 6 figures and that's a different story.) A T3 is something like, what? $10k? $30k? A month??
The DoS is the skript punks' newest idiot-proof attack schema, just as cgi-bin probing and (for the higher-end boxen) passwd cracking.
Let's face it: In theory it's nice. One toy instead of two. Woo-hoo.
However, the big problem is SIMULTATNEOUS USE. I can't use Graffiti with my phone if I gotta talk through it. Similarly, I don't want my PDA to pick up a phone call accidentally during an important meeting where I'm using my PDA to make sure my ass is still (gainfully) employed.
Unless they include an earbud mic with each one sold, it's no good.
2.5 in. HD's are unbelievably cheap. (Just visit eBay.) I use straight 2.5"'s for my Toshiba, and sice the connection is a small IDE, it's the most widely available / used. (Use a Torx etc. to undo your laptop's HD if the connection is a proprietary one; you'll see.)
I keep a small 2.1G (god! i remember when 40M was big!) HD for challenge serving.
AFA boot speed: Fixed magnetic disk is the third slowest media for data reading. (Number two is CD-ROM, and the slowest is the floppy. Yes, I mean common formats.) Disks-on-chip are a HELL of a lot of faster than fixed disks.
Let's hope that the creators of this newest techno-wiz-bang toy follow the models of our favorite hacked devices:
Release 1. Easy to hack. No unwanted epoxy; hell, they'll leave the IDE (or better! SCSI! Yeah, right!) pins standing.
Release 2. Harder to hack. Soldering skills a must for attatching the spare pins from your 286 drekbox (and yes, we all have one. I know you do. I've seen your house through that lame ass webcam of yours.)
Release 3. I don't know what'll eat through that nasty black epoxy that's popular these days.... I mean, epoxies are SUPPOSED to be acid-proof...
On a real note, ASCII or UNICODE (for non-Latin charsets) only, please. Most of the REAL WORLD uses text terminals to access the net and all your damned (BLINK) tags and (BOLD) and all that (FONT IS BIGGER THAN HELL) crap just doesn't cut it on pine or elm.
(I use both, so no holywars posts, please.)
Hell, I use virtual consoles and multiple non-priviledged users at a time on the portable (on a 14.4, no less!) to run several mail readers and Lynx.
And emacs.
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The one nice thing is that the aggrieved corps can slide a few legal noticii to NSI, DomainBank, etc. and "inform" them of the (probable) copyright or trademark infringement.
Ya think they might release it earlier than they've set?
I mean, consider the following:
-Computers at their disposal and the code used for high-end CG are definately better than for STE1;
-The camera work is done;
-Earlier release would probably make the fans very, very happy (or very, very pissed:)
Gnutella was a good idea; it was just taken the wrong way by the moronic serverops who can't avoid
sticking a ruler between their legs. Personally, I'd prefer having separate servers for content (mp3 specific
network, DivX specific network, binary specific network, etc.).
If there were servers, then they would be shut down. The great thing (and greatest lag point) of Gnutella is the fact that it is NOT server-client, but peer-to-peer. This means that two Gnutella users could locate each other eventually no matter how oppressive the environment. (You need to get creative, but a Chinese or Tibetan dissident could crack the Great Firewall with Gnutella to send a text file about abuses in human rights, for example.)
God, I hate all these references to causing cancer to computer systems via a well crafted virus.
I mean, a good viral lab today is beyond the capaacity of most governments, let alone individuals (save the CEO's of MSFT, ORCL, amongst others).
And by the time that this tech is commercially feasable, the viral labs will be really locked down. Never mind that they'll connect via USB or the FireWire, are smaller than the average PalmPilot and have Linux drivers only.
Do you know of any online source for realistic detail designs of digital devices based on DNA?
This was a "Hey, what's this?" discovery. As in, this was an unexpected, but beneficial result (see: penicillin).
The main uses they hypothesized were as an easier approach to discerning genetic abnormalities and as a chemical detector.
As far as the conductive aspect is concerned, the best bet IMHO would be in nanobots.
These guys are missing the whole point of PDAs. If you want to play games, buy a damn Game Boy. PDAs
weren't invented to be a replacement for your computer. Adding color is pointless, all they need are basic
functions like schedules and address books.
Yes, and computers were only for scientists to do a lot of number crunching for complicated mathematical equasions.
PDA's ARE computers. They just are smaller and suck less juice.
It seems like the cool thing to do these days is make things out of DNA. This, using DNA to thwart counterfitters, hiding Morse code in DNA microdots.
But why do you need to do any of this? If you're coating DNA strands with metal why don't you just make really small wires?
Because you are prohibited from making miniatomic wires by physics. The metal which can make the thinnest wires is gold (possibly platinum), both of which:
Are DAMNED expensive(c.$300/tr.oz. Au, c.$500/tr.oz. Pt)
Get nowhere near thin enough for nano apps.
Instead of using DNA in a microdot, why not just use ANYTHING ELSE to hide the message. These alternatives would definately be cheaper and more efficient.
I suppose you forget that deoxyribonucleic acid is one of the most available on earth.
As far as cost? TLA's that would use DNA microdots for info transmission don't have to worry about cost.
And as an anti-counterfeiting measure, it's proven extremely effective in Sydney. The Olympics are a Big Deal, and the IOC and the Sydney Olympic Committee get a license fee for every shirt sold. (Not to mention the raw margins for the independant sellers.) The money involved is, to be frank, huge considering it's two weeks and two days.
How long is it until someone just takes a couple of pounds of DNA and makes the worlds first DNA paperweight? "Why'd you use DNA?" "It's a proof of concept. Now we know you can make paperweights out of DNA."
Been there, done that. It's called "Taxidermy."
On a different tangent, since 'DNA computers' are going to have four states for each bit instead of two, we'll need a different method define the states. Here's my proposal for the different values of each bit(Quadruple-state logic):
1
0
UNDEFINED
NULL
How about 0, 1, 2, 3? As in 'false', 'probably false', 'probably true', and 'true'? Why can't there be "quits" and "quads"?
(See? I keep the subjects clean!:)
It's half-surprising it's taken this long for a Linux bundle on DVD..
Just remember them crazy Germans at SuSE did it first. (I can't wait to get the 7.0 upgrade; new kernel and more apps on the DVD than on the 6 CD's!)
(Guess I need an RPC-I DVD drive now...:)
ps: fyi: if you get a new dvd drive, make sure it's rpc-i. rpc-ii drives have the region coding firmwired into the drive itseld, and you can only change region 5 times. (maybe a new zealander can assist The Cause(tm)...)
Only question I have is how hot this thing is going to get? My Voodoo 3000 AGP get blisteringly
hot after some games, and it only has a heatsink. This card has two fans!
Look at any high-end general-purpose (aka Intel, AMD, Motorola) processor. Notice, please, how the heatsinks have been:
Increased in surface area with longer, thinner spines and small ridges on the spines;
Supplemented with on-board fans.
I put in a CPOC one-slot fan in my eMachines minitower when I filled the slots, and it's a damned good thing I did. (Now, in the winter, I can thaw my fingers at the back of my rig!)
Cash-wise, I mean.
From an email I recieved on the question of cold hard cash:
"USD 1500/month: colocation and physical maintenance/management of a
1U server, 64kbps bandwidth to Internet, 100mbps of onsite bandwidth (to
other HavenCo customers), IP addresses. USD 1500 setup, one-time.
USD 1500/mbps/month for bandwidth -- we'll pro-rate down to 128kbps for
USD 187.50/month."
Not including hardware, which is high-end (VA Linux 1000, for example.)
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- If you don't hand over your private keys, you face two years in jail.
- If you tell anyone about the insident, you go to jail for FIVE years.
- ISP's are responsible for buying the gear to perform the monitoring.
- And ALL net traffic either coming from or going to a British site go through MI-5. (That's like the NSA with FBI-like police powers for an American analogy.)
So, for example, if I worked as a sysadmin for a company with encrypted hard drives, and MI-5 drops by and demands the hard drives be opened, and I say, "I can't do that. The information on our encrypted systems are classified.", I get to go to a British jail for 24 months. If I have the audacity to report the incident to the CTO (or whoever is in charge of our IT), I could go to jail for 5 years, and be so far behind the SOTA (State Of The Art) I would need at least a year to recover to be employable! So, I say that we push to screw Britain for screwing us.Or the GNU AIM client. It's at Marko.net and it's very, very good. I have a surplus of friends on A-hole and it's a good deal easier to contact them through the IM client than through the telephone.. or email.. or postally.. or any other way. And as far as the complaint that you 'get IM's at inopportune times': TURN OFF THE CLIENT!
My favorite line from a not-too-recent seminar with a Samba core team coder:
We had to make it bug-by-bug compatible with M$.
I like the basic tenor: If it was built on NT code, then chop it. (It ain't GNU then anyways.) If it was clean room (aka raw GNU code from the ground up) then it is protected.
Besides, it predates the DMCA. Ha ha ha!
- Issue 1: Internet over Power Lines.
Instead of worrying about how slow that 56k modem is in connecting to my porn, err, news sites, now we can save the phones for more important things, like actually talking to people. [d.v]: Uh, I don't like the thought of a T1 that everyone can access. I'll stick with phone lines, or better yet, cable modems! it is illegal to tap a cable line without a high-level-of-proof warrant! : [JL]: Fine, whatever.- Issue Two: A Spaceship For A Half-Million? Apparently, it's possible to buy a kit that will let you use methane and liquid oxygen to fly sub-orbitally!
One nice thing about methane: EVERYONE produces it! Maybe I can swipe a bottle of oxygen and fly to the Caymans and enjoy my offshore accounts! [d.v]: No contest! I'll get you drinks! [JL]: No way. I don't swing that way!- Issue Three: Linux is the Best Way To Copy A Disk.
[d.v]: Please to be reading the laptop. [JL]: "Don't Trust The State"? [d.v]: No, the OTHER one. [JL]: "Linuxgruven." I see. I don't touch Unix with a ten foot pole. [d.v]: Loser. [JL]: Hey, I make the snide remarks!- Issue Four: The Presidential Quake Skins: A Threat for the future?
This skin is another problem with video games in this country! The violence implied with this, uh, 'skin', is obvious: you are to kill the VP's! Another skin - which my sources tell me is 'damned kool', the Republican and Democratic candidates are also targets! [d.v]: You should see my skin. It's Ralph Nader. And NOTHING sticks to him. You should see it against the Republocrats and Democritans. [JL]: Thank God I'm out of time. I have to screw with my social-security check to make sure I can afford HEAT in the studio next week! Good night!- One vote DOES count: The Republocrats took over the House in '94 by winning 19 districts with under 1,000 votes each. Assuming the total number is 19,000, that translates to one vote per school district in the US.
- Non-voters are the largest political force in America: Consider that the predictions say that only 46-49% of those eligible to vote actually do. That, my friends, makes for a plurality. The non-voters actually construe more than half the electorate and are their voices heard? The shortwave broadcast I heard suggested that if every person who was to vote Nader called two of their friends and converted them from the Legions of Morons (the republocrats and Democritans), then Nader would be the Big Dog.
- To get involved costs something, but not getting involved costs more. Moore talked about how he wanted to get on a school board to throw out his principal, who he felt was unfair. He was a lazy bastard and called the board of elections, which told him: 1. Even though he was barely 18, he could run. 2. He only needed 25 signatures to get on the ballot. 3. They would mail him the petition. He succeeded in terminating the principal AND the assistant principal.
- Nader has done more quantitative good than both major-party candidates combined. Airbags and the NHTSA are thanks to Ralph Nader's work against GM. We are not as exposed to radioactive matter thanks to Nader.
Vote Nader: The Only Candidate Biting The Hands Of Corporate America.Remember that unlike the phone system (where the initiating client pays for the call to another hardline (and other cell phones in MOST OF THE WORLD (hint, hint, fcc!)), the Internet world is, face it, paid for by the servers.
The servers need the fat pipe because they are the ones that need to be publicly available. And pipe don't come cheap. A T1 is $1k per month, and is well out of the range of the average humanoid. (Make 6 figures and that's a different story.) A T3 is something like, what? $10k? $30k? A month??
The DoS is the skript punks' newest idiot-proof attack schema, just as cgi-bin probing and (for the higher-end boxen) passwd cracking.
Let's face it: In theory it's nice. One toy instead of two. Woo-hoo.
However, the big problem is SIMULTATNEOUS USE. I can't use Graffiti with my phone if I gotta talk through it. Similarly, I don't want my PDA to pick up a phone call accidentally during an important meeting where I'm using my PDA to make sure my ass is still (gainfully) employed.
Unless they include an earbud mic with each one sold, it's no good.
On two fronts!
1. I.. just wanna fly. I am interested in becoming a pilot. A good simulator gives you an idea of the Real World aero-d.
2. Code, code, code. I need to improve my raw coding skills! C, C++, Java, Python, Perl.. to name a few that I study. (Assembler too, maybe in time.)
2.5 in. HD's are unbelievably cheap. (Just visit eBay.) I use straight 2.5"'s for my Toshiba, and sice the connection is a small IDE, it's the most widely available / used. (Use a Torx etc. to undo your laptop's HD if the connection is a proprietary one; you'll see.)
I keep a small 2.1G (god! i remember when 40M was big!) HD for challenge serving.
AFA boot speed: Fixed magnetic disk is the third slowest media for data reading. (Number two is CD-ROM, and the slowest is the floppy. Yes, I mean common formats.) Disks-on-chip are a HELL of a lot of faster than fixed disks.
Remember Moore's Law, and wait a year and a half.
This is apparently good and usable. Hacks, enjoy.
Let's hope that the creators of this newest techno-wiz-bang toy follow the models of our favorite hacked devices:
Release 1. Easy to hack. No unwanted epoxy; hell, they'll leave the IDE (or better! SCSI! Yeah, right!) pins standing.
Release 2. Harder to hack. Soldering skills a must for attatching the spare pins from your 286 drekbox (and yes, we all have one. I know you do. I've seen your house through that lame ass webcam of yours.)
Release 3. I don't know what'll eat through that nasty black epoxy that's popular these days.... I mean, epoxies are SUPPOSED to be acid-proof...
Tell me that that isn't a good slogan for M$.
On a real note, ASCII or UNICODE (for non-Latin charsets) only, please. Most of the REAL WORLD uses text terminals to access the net and all your damned (BLINK) tags and (BOLD) and all that (FONT IS BIGGER THAN HELL) crap just doesn't cut it on pine or elm.
(I use both, so no holywars posts, please.)
Hell, I use virtual consoles and multiple non-priviledged users at a time on the portable (on a 14.4, no less!) to run several mail readers and Lynx.
And emacs.
The one nice thing is that the aggrieved corps can slide a few legal noticii to NSI, DomainBank, etc. and "inform" them of the (probable) copyright or trademark infringement.
After all, you don't own the domain anyway.
Nader calls it best when he calls the current state of America as a "Corporate Socialist state".
Meaning: You do something 'wrong' (as defined by the megacorps), and you get severely penalised back to the Industrial Age.
Folks, the world of Shadowrun looks like it's looming closer.
Let's just say I intend to be a decker.
Ladies and gentlemen, I know this is the moment you've been waiting for!!
Class Action Lawsuit Time!!
Yes, friends, that most American of American tricks. The Class Action Lawsuit.
Doesn't it just make you tingle?
Ya think they might release it earlier than they've set?
:)
I mean, consider the following:
-Computers at their disposal and the code used for high-end CG are definately better than for STE1;
-The camera work is done;
-Earlier release would probably make the fans very, very happy (or very, very pissed
Gnutella was a good idea; it was just taken the wrong way by the moronic serverops who can't avoid sticking a ruler between their legs. Personally, I'd prefer having separate servers for content (mp3 specific network, DivX specific network, binary specific network, etc.). If there were servers, then they would be shut down. The great thing (and greatest lag point) of Gnutella is the fact that it is NOT server-client, but peer-to-peer. This means that two Gnutella users could locate each other eventually no matter how oppressive the environment. (You need to get creative, but a Chinese or Tibetan dissident could crack the Great Firewall with Gnutella to send a text file about abuses in human rights, for example.)
God, I hate all these references to causing cancer to computer systems via a well crafted virus.
I mean, a good viral lab today is beyond the capaacity of most governments, let alone individuals (save the CEO's of MSFT, ORCL, amongst others).
And by the time that this tech is commercially feasable, the viral labs will be really locked down. Never mind that they'll connect via USB or the FireWire, are smaller than the average PalmPilot and have Linux drivers only.
Do you know of any online source for realistic detail designs of digital devices based on DNA? This was a "Hey, what's this?" discovery. As in, this was an unexpected, but beneficial result (see: penicillin). The main uses they hypothesized were as an easier approach to discerning genetic abnormalities and as a chemical detector. As far as the conductive aspect is concerned, the best bet IMHO would be in nanobots.
These guys are missing the whole point of PDAs. If you want to play games, buy a damn Game Boy. PDAs weren't invented to be a replacement for your computer. Adding color is pointless, all they need are basic functions like schedules and address books. Yes, and computers were only for scientists to do a lot of number crunching for complicated mathematical equasions. PDA's ARE computers. They just are smaller and suck less juice.
Well, guess what.
I'm fucking BROKE.
So 1500/mo plus hardware IS a lotta money.
- Are DAMNED expensive(c.$300/tr.oz. Au, c.$500/tr.oz. Pt)
- Get nowhere near thin enough for nano apps.
Instead of using DNA in a microdot, why not just use ANYTHING ELSE to hide the message. These alternatives would definately be cheaper and more efficient. I suppose you forget that deoxyribonucleic acid is one of the most available on earth. As far as cost? TLA's that would use DNA microdots for info transmission don't have to worry about cost. And as an anti-counterfeiting measure, it's proven extremely effective in Sydney. The Olympics are a Big Deal, and the IOC and the Sydney Olympic Committee get a license fee for every shirt sold. (Not to mention the raw margins for the independant sellers.) The money involved is, to be frank, huge considering it's two weeks and two days. How long is it until someone just takes a couple of pounds of DNA and makes the worlds first DNA paperweight? "Why'd you use DNA?" "It's a proof of concept. Now we know you can make paperweights out of DNA." Been there, done that. It's called "Taxidermy." On a different tangent, since 'DNA computers' are going to have four states for each bit instead of two, we'll need a different method define the states. Here's my proposal for the different values of each bit(Quadruple-state logic):- 1
- 0
- UNDEFINED
- NULL
How about 0, 1, 2, 3? As in 'false', 'probably false', 'probably true', and 'true'? Why can't there be "quits" and "quads"?Nothing like bringing down the One True Evil Way- The Next Generation (tm) from the inside.
Salute, Justin!
(See? I keep the subjects clean! :)
It's half-surprising it's taken this long for a Linux bundle on DVD..
Just remember them crazy Germans at SuSE did it first. (I can't wait to get the 7.0 upgrade; new kernel and more apps on the DVD than on the 6 CD's!)
(Guess I need an RPC-I DVD drive now... :)
ps: fyi: if you get a new dvd drive, make sure it's rpc-i. rpc-ii drives have the region coding firmwired into the drive itseld, and you can only change region 5 times. (maybe a new zealander can assist The Cause(tm)...)
- Increased in surface area with longer, thinner spines and small ridges on the spines;
- Supplemented with on-board fans.
I put in a CPOC one-slot fan in my eMachines minitower when I filled the slots, and it's a damned good thing I did. (Now, in the winter, I can thaw my fingers at the back of my rig!)Cash-wise, I mean. From an email I recieved on the question of cold hard cash: "USD 1500/month: colocation and physical maintenance/management of a 1U server, 64kbps bandwidth to Internet, 100mbps of onsite bandwidth (to other HavenCo customers), IP addresses. USD 1500 setup, one-time. USD 1500/mbps/month for bandwidth -- we'll pro-rate down to 128kbps for USD 187.50/month." Not including hardware, which is high-end (VA Linux 1000, for example.)