The term "geek" can be highly offensive too. In the first half of the 20th century, a "geek show" was a carnival act where a man would bite the head off of a snake or a chicken and drink its blood.
Tell your grandmother that you're a geek and she might faint.
The bankruptcy court is not entitled to judge the merits of other cases, so if they put to the bankruptcy court judge that they should continue to litigate to get money and not pay until then, he has no grounds to refuse that.
Be that as it may, I think the bankruptcy trustee would have something to say about it.
If I'm willing to pay for two spots on the node, why not give them to me?!
Why not just call up their order department and ask them for a second account, without going into details about what you want it for. (That's really none of their business and I can't imagine why they would ask you, or care. Maybe you want it for your downstairs tenant or something...)
This is not to say that it would be impossible to write a filesharing program that was not caught by the distribution rule, but it would be a less efficient system because it would encourage leeching, unlike bittorrent which rewards sharing.
I believe the word you're looking for here is Usenet.
I want every pizza I ordered to be free, delivered instantly by a dozen naked supermodels. But just because my local pizza company will not provide such a service does not mean a new company will materialize to do so.
It is "new information" about a technical/computer-related subject, it has generated discussion and given people a chance to post opinions and information about related materials.
That depends on how badly broken it is. If it's quit completely, you can tell. But if it's reading a few % over or under actual speed, how long will it take you to notice, if ever?
evade (usually democratically imposed) taxes by hiding the profits from those businesses in tax havens.
Isn't that a problem with the tax laws in the country where the profits are being made, rather than a problem with tax laws where the profits are being taken to?
If the profits are being made in country X, tax them on the way out the door to country Y. Problem solved, entirely by country X.
the government can't compel you to use a certain kind of software just to make it convenient to gather data to be used against you
I wonder.
What about that story the other day about the torrent distributor who was ordered to keep his ram data because he wouldn't log IP addresses? He was apparently told to "Just turn on logging", he refused so they made an order for him to store his ram contents.
Is "You must keep logs" all that much different from "You must run THIS operating system"?
I blocked .blogspot.com referrers a few days ago
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A couple of days ago, I got tired of the formmail spam that my users were receiving from their "contact me here" webpages. After reviewing my logs, I made.htaccess files on my webserver: order allow,deny deny from 206.51.229. deny from 206.51.233. allow from all
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} blogspot\.com [NC] RewriteRule.* - [F]
This has cut the formmail spam that I receive down to zero ever since I set it up.
The deny from lines take care of some guy who downloads the html submit form and posts spam from "Darksites.com", and the Rewrite denies access from all.blogspot.com referrers. I still see a few dozen hits every day from all of these, but they are all 403 now so I'm happy.
Here is a single example from a few minutes ago: 72.47.89.233 --[30/Aug/2007:22:28:22 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 3931 "http://hydrocodone--4t1.blogspot.com" "Opera/9.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X; U; en)"
That depends on where you look. LTSP works wonderfully in many situations. It is especially popular in educational institutions. I use it myself in a couple of small business environments.
Again, it's a wonderful solution in many situations.
Actually, some people have devices in their vehicles that track payments made, remind you when one is due, and disable the vehicle if any payment is past due.
I know this is just a nostalgic thought and that the SCO I'm referring to has nothing to do with its current incarnation.
Absolutely. It's a completely different company that the company that was known as SCO in the 80's. The only actual connection these days is that fact that both companies are/were in the Unix business, and that they happen to have had the same name.
Except that possession of 'criminal tools' such as lock picks, bump keys, etc if one is not a licensed locksmith is a criminal offense.
That depends on where you are. I live in Canada. In a former life I was a Sheriff. And I had a nice set of lock picks, a very slick pick gun, and a couple of slide hammers. Most of which were stamped "law enforcement use only". I was never a locksmith, though....
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They did their jobs. A potential threat was quickly neutralized with no loss of life and a prankster was arrested.
Problem solved.
The term "geek" can be highly offensive too. In the first half of the 20th century, a "geek show" was a carnival act where a man would bite the head off of a snake or a chicken and drink its blood.
Tell your grandmother that you're a geek and she might faint.
My mother still has a rotary dial phone in her house. Yes, that's her phone. Yes, it still works fine.
Their debts come with their assets if you purchase them, and their office space is rented from someone else.
It's not much of a bargain at any price.
The hardware store in my town (part of a Canadian chain called "Home Hardware") uses an inventory/POS program called Prism that runs on SCO Unix.
I see it every time I purchase new box of wood screws or fertilizer for my lawn.
Psst... notice the clever double-entendre in the products mentioned..... *tee hee*
Just couldn't resist....
The bankruptcy court is not entitled to judge the merits of other cases, so if they put to the bankruptcy court judge that they should continue to litigate to get money and not pay until then, he has no grounds to refuse that.
Be that as it may, I think the bankruptcy trustee would have something to say about it.
If I'm willing to pay for two spots on the node, why not give them to me?!
Why not just call up their order department and ask them for a second account, without going into details about what you want it for. (That's really none of their business and I can't imagine why they would ask you, or care. Maybe you want it for your downstairs tenant or something...)
Have you tried that?
a hacker without prior access will get the machine to go to their server instead of the MS server,
DNS poisoning
present the correct authenication,
Using "genuine" certificates from Verisign will get you much of the way to where you want to be, I suppose.
This is not to say that it would be impossible to write a filesharing program that was not caught by the distribution rule, but it would be a less efficient system because it would encourage leeching, unlike bittorrent which rewards sharing.
I believe the word you're looking for here is Usenet.
I believe the words that you're searching for there are "Intel video chipset".
I want every pizza I ordered to be free, delivered instantly by a dozen naked supermodels. But just because my local pizza company will not provide such a service does not mean a new company will materialize to do so.
Is this close enough?
remember, in the DOS days most people didn't even have a computer.
A lot of people did. They had Commodore 64's, Apple II's and BBC Micros.
MS-DOS machines were high-end and expensive; most people couldn't afford one of those, but they could afford a C64.
It is "new information" about a technical/computer-related subject, it has generated discussion and given people a chance to post opinions and information about related materials.
Isn't that the purpose a discussion forum?
I use one to get the last of the water out of my heating boiler when flushing it.
I have also used it to siphon water out of a clogged drain, and to start siphoning water out of a waterbed mattress.
the interpretation is a legal one and thats down to JK.
Rowling?
SCO Wizard School: Ok children, watch closely as I wave my magic wand and *poof* watch all of that free cash roll in!
Oops.Misfire...
That depends on how badly broken it is. If it's quit completely, you can tell. But if it's reading a few % over or under actual speed, how long will it take you to notice, if ever?
evade (usually democratically imposed) taxes by hiding the profits from those businesses in tax havens.
Isn't that a problem with the tax laws in the country where the profits are being made, rather than a problem with tax laws where the profits are being taken to?
If the profits are being made in country X, tax them on the way out the door to country Y. Problem solved, entirely by country X.
the government can't compel you to use a certain kind of software just to make it convenient to gather data to be used against you
I wonder.
What about that story the other day about the torrent distributor who was ordered to keep his ram data because he wouldn't log IP addresses? He was apparently told to "Just turn on logging", he refused so they made an order for him to store his ram contents.
Is "You must keep logs" all that much different from "You must run THIS operating system"?
A couple of days ago, I got tired of the formmail spam that my users were receiving from their "contact me here" webpages. After reviewing my logs, I made .htaccess files on my webserver:
.* - [F]
.blogspot.com referrers. I still see a few dozen hits every day from all of these, but they are all 403 now so I'm happy.
order allow,deny
deny from 206.51.229.
deny from 206.51.233.
allow from all
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} blogspot\.com [NC]
RewriteRule
This has cut the formmail spam that I receive down to zero ever since I set it up.
The deny from lines take care of some guy who downloads the html submit form and posts spam from "Darksites.com", and the Rewrite denies access from all
Here is a single example from a few minutes ago:
72.47.89.233 --[30/Aug/2007:22:28:22 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 403 3931 "http://hydrocodone--4t1.blogspot.com" "Opera/9.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X; U; en)"
What I fail to understand is why its so horrible for MS to have its format documented as a "standard". If it sucks noone has to use it.
The objective is to be able to win government and corporate tenders that specify "ISO Standard file format."
That depends on where you look. LTSP works wonderfully in many situations. It is especially popular in educational institutions. I use it myself in a couple of small business environments.
Again, it's a wonderful solution in many situations.
Actually, some people have devices in their vehicles that track payments made, remind you when one is due, and disable the vehicle if any payment is past due.
Details here.
I know this is just a nostalgic thought and that the SCO I'm referring to has nothing to do with its current incarnation.
Absolutely. It's a completely different company that the company that was known as SCO in the 80's. The only actual connection these days is that fact that both companies are/were in the Unix business, and that they happen to have had the same name.
The hardware store in my town is part of a chain called Home Hardware. They have a lot of stores in small towns all over Canada.
They, or at least the store in my town, run their tills and inventory control system on a system called, I think, PRISM, that runs on SCO Unix.
So at least one chain is using their software in Canada.
It will be interesting to see if their computer systems change to something else over the next while....
Except that possession of 'criminal tools' such as lock picks, bump keys, etc if one is not a licensed locksmith is a criminal offense.
That depends on where you are. I live in Canada. In a former life I was a Sheriff. And I had a nice set of lock picks, a very slick pick gun, and a couple of slide hammers. Most of which were stamped "law enforcement use only". I was never a locksmith, though....