just so that you can get something that you would otherwise have to pay for isn't hacking.
No NO NO! We can't pay for it! We are Canadian, and purchasing an American signal IS illegal. This is the only legal way for us to watch this excellent American television.
I work at a Sympatico High-Speed (DSL) dealership, and Sasktel encourages us to set businesses up with NAT. And Linux is no problem either. I've been running Linux here on DSL for 2 years, and our webserver / natbox at work runs Linux. Standard DSL is $45Canadian / month. Although, here, the most you can generally pull off of DSL is 180KB/S, and off of cable, we pulled 612KB/S;). Downloaded the kernel (20MB) in 34 seconds...
Either way, Saskatchewan has kick ass bandwidth for those who want it. Plus, check out CommunityNet to see what we have coming to us soon!
R.C.M.P and MPs are very different in Canada. When the RCMP pull you over it's pretty relaxed and casual... Like "You know sir, you were going quite fast back there..."
MP is much different. MP's pull you over and have a sidearm / rifle pointed at your window. *shudder*
What is the point of "XP-like activation numbers"? Do I have to worry that my motherboard will be pirated? Will people burn copies of my motherboard and give them to their friends?
Not in Canada. In Canada, police have the right to pull you over, and search your vehicle for any reason they may choose. They can tear it completely apart, and leave it like that for you to put back together, if they so desire. It happened to a friend of mine, the police were looking for a black guy who had just robbed a convenience store, and they pulled my (white) friend over and searched his car top to bottom. They WERE nice enough to help him put it back together, but they weren't obligated to.
No, the point here is that a tech support person has no way of knowing if the work he is doing is on an original binary, or a potentially modified binary. This *would* have the potential to destroy their support contracts if they couldn't fix what was wrong.
I've been doing tech work for several years, and we have had a lot of people who have had their computers in for repair, and had no end of difficulty. Then they tell us that they have special modified DLLs to make their system more functional... Horseshit!
If IBM still has that much of a market supporting OS2, then they should only support official OS2, and not open up the possibility of having incomplete installations to cope with, or other kinds of installations.
It's like getting a support contract from Microsoft, running a hex-editor and changing random values in your DLLs, and then demanding support from your contract!
I'm not sure about the rest of the country, but in Saskatchewan, we are getting a network called CommunityNet. According to the web page, they will be providing two different types of connections. 10Mbit and 100Mbit:). A friend of mine already has it at the school he does tech work for, and it is amazing. He has the "beta" version that is only 4(i think)Mbit, and it screams. SaskTel claims that they will have 150 communities connected to the network by September 2001, and 366 communities connected within the next three years.
According to the plan, they are only bringing it to communities with educational, health, or government facilities, but that still covers a huge portion of the province.
Why not use this fabulous program against itself! Distribute VBS files that automagically update your NAV / McAfee for you;). This is the perfect defense against virii. The only people who will actually run these are the people who will be affected by VBS virii anyways, so you are curing them in a round about way.
Hey this sounds very much like my previous dabblings in drugs, mostly marijuana. One day, december 12, I decided that I was never going to do it again, because it made my mind feel like it had fuzz on it for a few days... So I quit, and I haven't ever even considered trying it again.
Cold turkey all the way. Same with when I quit smoking. Althought I still have smoking cravings here and there, no pot cravings.
Au contraire. I already posted this above, but I'll say it again.
In Saskatchewan, Sasktel runs Fibre to the "grey boxes", which are refered to as Walk-In Closets. Inside the WICs are DSLAMS. This allows them to have extremely nice speeds on their DSL, no matter how far from the CO you are.
Here in saskatchewan, sasktel runs Fibre to all of these "Hotels", or DSLAMs as they are properly named. I have seen several of them around the city, and they definately don't have complete copper everywhere.
That being said, I have heard in many different places that Sasktel, and Saskatchewan in general, are very high up on the technology scale.
So yes, DSL over Fibre *is* possible, and our telco seems to prefer it.
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Its a troll, and I'll bite.
Nintendo isn't the only maker of console games. Sony and Sega (although that kinda flopped) already have their own consoles, and Microsoft and several other companies have their own in development. Sorry but Nintendo isn't a molopoly by any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, you say "By using cartridges it skims profit from every title." Well, so do all the other companies that sell the typical closed-source game (I remember a Linux console but forget the name...). Have you ever noticed how EVERY playstation CD shows the Sony logo during startup?
Game systems are sold at a loss, with the implication that the sales of the games will recoup the losses.
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Have you ever heard of MyComet Cursor? What a perfect way to disguise your click-identification software, as a piece of software that changes your mouse pointer:)
Yes, they have invented something. But why shouldn't I be able to say, hey that's kinda cool, but I bet I can make one [insert cheaper,better,faster,more powerful] than those guys can?
Yes, that's right! This thing *needs* a patent, otherwise some company won't be able to own exclusive rights on it, and make a pile of money off of it, while many other people can think of very creative uses for it, but can't actually use it.
Didn't at one point, the author come out and say that Aimster was named after his daughter Aimee? And that she was going to be doing a photo shoot? I swear I saw an article on/. about that...
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So yeah, SSL is safe. But a proxy server with ssh would be nice for the non-protected protocols.
May I recommend you check out http://ettercap.sourceforge.net? Look how safe SSL really is once your network has an intruder.
Lets have a look at the whole DeCSS fiasco. Was there a DMCA?
Well, sidewinders aren't going to do anything against the 20mm vulcan cannon! Sidewinders are Air-To-Air missles...
Then you are DEFINATELY in the wrong place!
No NO NO! We can't pay for it! We are Canadian, and purchasing an American signal IS illegal. This is the only legal way for us to watch this excellent American television.
POOP?
Either way, Saskatchewan has kick ass bandwidth for those who want it. Plus, check out CommunityNet to see what we have coming to us soon!
MP is much different. MP's pull you over and have a sidearm / rifle pointed at your window. *shudder*
I don't get it...
At one point, I recall the Chinese Gov't deciding to use RedHat for all their operations, and many many people found it funny....
Not in Canada. In Canada, police have the right to pull you over, and search your vehicle for any reason they may choose. They can tear it completely apart, and leave it like that for you to put back together, if they so desire. It happened to a friend of mine, the police were looking for a black guy who had just robbed a convenience store, and they pulled my (white) friend over and searched his car top to bottom. They WERE nice enough to help him put it back together, but they weren't obligated to.
I've been doing tech work for several years, and we have had a lot of people who have had their computers in for repair, and had no end of difficulty. Then they tell us that they have special modified DLLs to make their system more functional... Horseshit!
If IBM still has that much of a market supporting OS2, then they should only support official OS2, and not open up the possibility of having incomplete installations to cope with, or other kinds of installations.
It's like getting a support contract from Microsoft, running a hex-editor and changing random values in your DLLs, and then demanding support from your contract!
According to the plan, they are only bringing it to communities with educational, health, or government facilities, but that still covers a huge portion of the province.
Hehee and then you could hide your pr0n in "hidden rooms" so when the girlfriend comes over, no one's the wiser :)
Now, you can look on the Pop-Tart box, and see this very necessary warning: "WARNING: Pop-Tarts are hot when heated."
What have we come to?
Why not use this fabulous program against itself! Distribute VBS files that automagically update your NAV / McAfee for you ;). This is the perfect defense against virii. The only people who will actually run these are the people who will be affected by VBS virii anyways, so you are curing them in a round about way.
Hey this sounds very much like my previous dabblings in drugs, mostly marijuana. One day, december 12, I decided that I was never going to do it again, because it made my mind feel like it had fuzz on it for a few days... So I quit, and I haven't ever even considered trying it again. Cold turkey all the way. Same with when I quit smoking. Althought I still have smoking cravings here and there, no pot cravings.
In Saskatchewan, Sasktel runs Fibre to the "grey boxes", which are refered to as Walk-In Closets. Inside the WICs are DSLAMS. This allows them to have extremely nice speeds on their DSL, no matter how far from the CO you are.
That being said, I have heard in many different places that Sasktel, and Saskatchewan in general, are very high up on the technology scale.
So yes, DSL over Fibre *is* possible, and our telco seems to prefer it.
Nintendo isn't the only maker of console games. Sony and Sega (although that kinda flopped) already have their own consoles, and Microsoft and several other companies have their own in development. Sorry but Nintendo isn't a molopoly by any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, you say "By using cartridges it skims profit from every title." Well, so do all the other companies that sell the typical closed-source game (I remember a Linux console but forget the name...). Have you ever noticed how EVERY playstation CD shows the Sony logo during startup?
Game systems are sold at a loss, with the implication that the sales of the games will recoup the losses.
Yes, they have invented something. But why shouldn't I be able to say, hey that's kinda cool, but I bet I can make one [insert cheaper,better,faster,more powerful] than those guys can?
Sounds like a great idea to me!
Didn't at one point, the author come out and say that Aimster was named after his daughter Aimee? And that she was going to be doing a photo shoot? I swear I saw an article on /. about that...