Set up a private linux box that is your own personal server with scrounged parts. Do backups quietly. Encrypt the drives. Don't trust anybody else. Run critical backups of other's boxes to 'the network' and just don't get specific about which server it's headed to. Not like they'll care, anyway. You sure as hell won't be the first. I wasn't, a decade ago.
When somebody needs a restore, take their box and tell them you'll see what you can 'recover from the drive'. Don't tell anybody what you're actuallly doing.
Yeah, it's risking your job, but not having backups also risks your job, and getting caught using unlicensed commercial software can land you in worse shape than just getting fired -- your bosses could throw you to the wolves.
1. USE OF SOFTWARE
The Software is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only."
"non-commercial" does NOT mean "not at work"
Well, over at http://www.groklaw.net/ PJ says legalese is dangerous for laypeople, because it LOOKS like plain english, but isn't.
My humble (IANAL) guess is that Google would have an extremely tough time causing legal problems for anybody using Google Pack at work. I'd think that the most they could do is say that the above was wrong, and politely ask a company to stop using it. The "terms and conditions" are in legalese and the explanation is in plain english. I doubt regular humans could be faulted for taking google at their simplified explanation's word, when there are so many reasons to believe it's legitimate.
I don't understand the difference either. Perhaps "non-commercial" means 'not reselling'? In any case, I'd be very comfortable saying under oath:
"Your honor, I'm not a lawyer, and I don't understand intellectual property contract law, so I relied on Google's plain language explanation of their license which said it's OK for work and home."
I'm installing Google Pack on my office network tomorrow.
Just to post a backup so it's stored off google's site: #3 is the post under discussion
************* blank lines and crap removed to make slashcode happy:
1. carlosp Jan 2, 4:41 pm From: carlosp Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:41:22 -0800 Local: Tues, Jan 2 2007 4:41 pm Subject: Google pack licence?
Is google pack an actual free licence software which can be installed on company computers or it is just avilable for personal use?
2. MrTwist Jan 3, 1:40 pm From: MrTwist Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:40:12 -0000 Local: Wed, Jan 3 2007 1:40 pm Subject: Re: Google pack licence? If you're concerned, you might want to read the liscense that is displayed right before you click the Agree and Download button.
3. Google Pack Guide Google employee (1 user) Jan 4, 3:36 pm From: Google Pack Guide Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:36:34 -0000 Local: Thurs, Jan 4 2007 3:36 pm Subject: Re: Google pack licence? Right-o, MrTwist.
And just to summarize, you're perfectly free to use the Google Updater and the rest of the programs in the Google Pack on your home and/or work computer.
-Kal
4. carlosp Jan 4, 10:07 pm From: carlosp Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:07:29 -0000 Local: Thurs, Jan 4 2007 10:07 pm Subject: Re: Google pack licence? Thanks:)
The above post refers to a PARALLEL UNIVERSE, and is NOT making a political statement. SF writers have long used alternate political situations to show a parallel universe that is very similar to ours, but definetly different.
The above post deserves to be moderated as +1 humor, since it is the first to bring up the idea of the quantum entanglement communications device accidentally talking to another universe.
I've always thought having a monitor that could detach to be stand-alone or attach with a standard mount would greatly help consumers. It wouldn't be too good for the manufacturers, who generally charge more for a replacement screen than a newer laptop would cost.
With these gov't subsidized deals, though, I'm hopeful.
It should help out by decreasing replacement costs (swap the main unit OR the screen, not both).
Meanwhile, I can't wait to see these Indian cheapies on eBay!
Sewer systems take education to be able to usefully install and maintain.
Your contact with bowl problem should be solved by using an "elongated bowl" Such things are available in hardware stores like home depot.
If you're still contacting the toilet with an elongated bowl, I recommend selling pictures of yourself on the net, and using the proceeds to purchase a sewer system to donate.
Yes, I think it constitutes a "teenage orgy". But I will have to watch it many more times to be certain.
Meanwhile, folks, please don't send in an FCC complaint to the effect of "I am complaining that there isn't any more of this on TV" since it'll only count against the show.
Frankly, it's the best made clip I've seen in a while. I really liked the music too.
If you zoom way out, you'll see that there are actually 2 continents.
The resemblance of the continent on the right to North and South Korea is just too much to be coincidence. It even has a DMZ. (a very straight waterway between North and South.
Not being a WoW player, I have no idea of the place's name.
We could get rid of waste by burying it deep in oceanic subduction zones, where the plates are moving downward. A guided drop would cause a penetration of about 100 feet or so into silt, then it goes down a few more feet each year (mostly due to sediment buildup).
Recycling at it's finest. Nuke materials under miles of seawater + about 100 feet of mud, getting deeper all the time.
Just put it in a casing shaped like a torpedo, beefed up with an armor penetrating nose, and drive it to the sea floor. It'll be going fast when it hits, and it'll keep going down a long way.
Good luck digging that up again.
hanzie.
Re:Has anyone tried running both under wine?
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OpenOffice Bloated?
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· Score: 1
Given that: I have to admit guilt. Does anybody know of a really good intro to Base (oo.o's database). I need database functions, but every time I try to get started, I end up floundering.
If anybody knows where I can find an excellent book/ tutorial/ whatever so I can learn Base, I promise to stop making bloated spreadsheets. (MS Access tutorials are, however, out of the question.)
Dude, if you're looking forward to inheriting that, just post your UPS able receiving address and the phrase "please donate anything x86 20mz or better" and you'll have no end of raw material "inherited" your way. Lot's of us have old boxen looking for a home.
Regarding your network drive letters and usb drives...
On my XP box, I assigned my: Main drive to C: for easy compatibility Then I left a drive letter assignment gap (windows has default drive letter assignment rules, and it's easier to go along) in the D: to E: range. The I left F: open for good measure.
I did this so new hardware getting drive letters automatically assigned wouldn't bump my network and usb drive assignments around. That just screws everything up badly.
My compact flash reader got assigned explicitly to G: The other drives on that unit were explicitly assigned H:, I:, and J: in the unlikely event I ever needed them. (I did)
My 2 HD RAID was assigned to P:
DVD writer to W: DVD Reader to R: This got the DVD stuff well above the auto assigning area. My DVD hardware tends to get upgraded/traded often. The fairly frequent changes don't cause a problem; new hardware lands at D: and is then immediately moved way down the list.
I did install windows from the default location, since I couldn't change it before installation. I changed the drive letter immediately after installation of xp, and it has saved far more problems than it caused. I seem to recall going through the registry and replacing all "D:" with "R:".
Anyhow, I no longer have any drive letter assignment problems, and I'm mapping and unmapping network drives at least once a week. Sometimes I mount and unmount drives quite a bit more often, and no problems.
Oh, my biggest stability secret: More Memory + Fixed virtual memory block! I have a gig of RAM and a gig of VM (pagefile) on this system, and won't run any less.
I think it might be a little more correct to substitute "wind power" for "air" in the writeup.
Essentially, the idea is to incorporate a windmill to power the phone.
Saying the phone is "Air" powered implys (to me, at least) that some chemical reaction is taking place using oxygen or nitrogen.
It is a cool idea, and the article implies that normal winds are sufficient to power the cell phone.
If the generator is small enough to actually be part of a cell phone, I'd think that scaling the design up might make economic sense for generating normal electric power. Unfortunately, there weren't any specifics, so it is tough to make any extrapolations.
The friends/foes thing has a use: Comment visibility.
You can up the score of friends and lower the score of foes. If you see someone who consistently posts comments worth reading, you can raise their comments automatically, while browsing at higher levels. You can do the opposite with people that are consistent enough trolls that you'd rather never hear from them again.
This is modified under the "comments" tab under prefrences.
I hope this is some help. It has been my experience that most slashdaughters aren't as bad your journal seems to suggest. You, for example, seem to be a non-lame slashdot member.
One of the working assumptions in the Red Dwarf books is that Earth is the only planet that developed intelligent life. (later series changed that, but it was explicitly stated in the first two books)
Mabye we're the only intelligence life of the "techno" variety.
Either that, or no technological society survives long after discovering fission.
I'd assume that any Dyson sphere or ringworlds would be putting out quite a bit of electronic noise, and we'd hear about it. Mabye we will, when we start deploying antenna arrays hundreds of miles across in space.
I ended up with a copy of "Services for UNIX 3.0", but the cover said "120 day evaluation copy" so I never bothered to open it. Guess I'll take a look.
As a representative of a major company, he can bring down lawsuits for whatever he says. There are plenty of lawyers reading whatever he says, looking for an opening.
So yeah, there are definetly things he can't talk about publicly, like Xbox2 launch dates, pending litigation (everybody has pending litigation). Then there will be other stuff that he won't even know about -- MS is a big company.
Personally, I'm releived that we've actually got somebody with a voice in MS who certainly appears not to be a dick. It gives me some hope.
I'd really like to know if it is conceivable that MS would actually offer a "Windows" window manager to run atop linux. No reason they couldn't, and I'd sure as hell buy it for the windows boxes I have to run at work.
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Set up a private linux box that is your own personal server with scrounged parts. Do backups quietly. Encrypt the drives. Don't trust anybody else. Run critical backups of other's boxes to 'the network' and just don't get specific about which server it's headed to. Not like they'll care, anyway. You sure as hell won't be the first. I wasn't, a decade ago.
When somebody needs a restore, take their box and tell them you'll see what you can 'recover from the drive'. Don't tell anybody what you're actuallly doing.
Yeah, it's risking your job, but not having backups also risks your job, and getting caught using unlicensed commercial software can land you in worse shape than just getting fired -- your bosses could throw you to the wolves.
Good luck.
hanzie.
According to what appears to be someone under Google's control: http://groups.google.com/group/pack-howto/browse_f rm/thread/ae14a8881ea3505
I take this to be accurate, since the bona fides for this post are:
I guess that that in Google Pack's Terms of Use http://pack.google.com/intl/en/eula_print_us.html? hl=en&gl=us
"non-commercial" does NOT mean "not at work"Well, over at http://www.groklaw.net/ PJ says legalese is dangerous for laypeople, because it LOOKS like plain english, but isn't.
My humble (IANAL) guess is that Google would have an extremely tough time causing legal problems for anybody using Google Pack at work. I'd think that the most they could do is say that the above was wrong, and politely ask a company to stop using it. The "terms and conditions" are in legalese and the explanation is in plain english. I doubt regular humans could be faulted for taking google at their simplified explanation's word, when there are so many reasons to believe it's legitimate.
I don't understand the difference either. Perhaps "non-commercial" means 'not reselling'? In any case, I'd be very comfortable saying under oath: "Your honor, I'm not a lawyer, and I don't understand intellectual property contract law, so I relied on Google's plain language explanation of their license which said it's OK for work and home."
I'm installing Google Pack on my office network tomorrow.
Just to post a backup so it's stored off google's site: #3 is the post under discussion
************* blank lines and crap removed to make slashcode happy:The above post refers to a PARALLEL UNIVERSE, and is NOT making a political statement. SF writers have long used alternate political situations to show a parallel universe that is very similar to ours, but definetly different.
The above post deserves to be moderated as +1 humor, since it is the first to bring up the idea of the quantum entanglement communications device accidentally talking to another universe.
The above post is absolutely not flamebait.
hanzie.
I've always thought having a monitor that could detach to be stand-alone or attach with a standard mount would greatly help consumers. It wouldn't be too good for the manufacturers, who generally charge more for a replacement screen than a newer laptop would cost.
With these gov't subsidized deals, though, I'm hopeful.
It should help out by decreasing replacement costs (swap the main unit OR the screen, not both).
Meanwhile, I can't wait to see these Indian cheapies on eBay!
hanzie.
Back in the day, we had REAL operating systems.... Cough, cough, SLAP, Ghaaaak.
Martha, where's my LART!?! There's these damn KIDS around again...
Sewer systems take education to be able to usefully install and maintain.
Your contact with bowl problem should be solved by using an "elongated bowl" Such things are available in hardware stores like home depot.
If you're still contacting the toilet with an elongated bowl, I recommend selling pictures of yourself on the net, and using the proceeds to purchase a sewer system to donate.
Yes, I think it constitutes a "teenage orgy". But I will have to watch it many more times to be certain.
Meanwhile, folks, please don't send in an FCC complaint to the effect of "I am complaining that there isn't any more of this on TV" since it'll only count against the show.
Frankly, it's the best made clip I've seen in a while. I really liked the music too.
I wonder if CBS is making a director's cut?
hanzie.
If you zoom way out, you'll see that there are actually 2 continents.
The resemblance of the continent on the right to North and South Korea is just too much to be coincidence. It even has a DMZ. (a very straight waterway between North and South.
Not being a WoW player, I have no idea of the place's name.
We could get rid of waste by burying it deep in oceanic subduction zones, where the plates are moving downward. A guided drop would cause a penetration of about 100 feet or so into silt, then it goes down a few more feet each year (mostly due to sediment buildup).
Recycling at it's finest. Nuke materials under miles of seawater + about 100 feet of mud, getting deeper all the time.
Just put it in a casing shaped like a torpedo, beefed up with an armor penetrating nose, and drive it to the sea floor. It'll be going fast when it hits, and it'll keep going down a long way.
Good luck digging that up again.
hanzie.
There is an MSOffice for OSX, I think.
Given that: I have to admit guilt. Does anybody know of a really good intro to Base (oo.o's database). I need database functions, but every time I try to get started, I end up floundering.
If anybody knows where I can find an excellent book/ tutorial/ whatever so I can learn Base, I promise to stop making bloated spreadsheets. (MS Access tutorials are, however, out of the question.)
Thanks very much, any who respond helpfully.
hanzie.
The access was a crime. She accessed the system with an unauthorized name and password.
../../ after a URL to see if it was a scam donation site and was fined/lost his job over it.
quite a bit more than the poor sod in the UK who typed
different laws, but still a criminal trespass. I think that applies to reporters too.
hanzie.
your sig:
If you want your life to be different, live it differently.
I believe this is the best sig I've seen in many months.
Thank you.
hanzie
Dude, if you're looking forward to inheriting that, just post your UPS able receiving address and the phrase "please donate anything x86 20mz or better" and you'll have no end of raw material "inherited" your way. Lot's of us have old boxen looking for a home.
hanzie.
I've experienced exactly that, with my own hand.
It really sucked.
Nothing permanent, except the lesson.
hanzie.
Remember, this system is only to stop viruses. If they're clueful enough to run a spoofed MAC address, they probably have a clean system.
You do remind me of an older job I had. There was a print server in accounting that really liked to surf porn at night...
parent deserves +5 insightful.
Regarding your network drive letters and usb drives...
On my XP box, I assigned my:
Main drive to C: for easy compatibility
Then I left a drive letter assignment gap (windows has default drive letter assignment rules, and it's easier to go along) in the D: to E: range. The I left F: open for good measure.
I did this so new hardware getting drive letters automatically assigned wouldn't bump my network and usb drive assignments around. That just screws everything up badly.
My compact flash reader got assigned explicitly to G:
The other drives on that unit were explicitly assigned H:, I:, and J: in the unlikely event I ever needed them. (I did)
My 2 HD RAID was assigned to P:
DVD writer to W:
DVD Reader to R:
This got the DVD stuff well above the auto assigning area. My DVD hardware tends to get upgraded/traded often. The fairly frequent changes don't cause a problem; new hardware lands at D: and is then immediately moved way down the list.
I did install windows from the default location, since I couldn't change it before installation. I changed the drive letter immediately after installation of xp, and it has saved far more problems than it caused. I seem to recall going through the registry and replacing all "D:" with "R:".
Anyhow, I no longer have any drive letter assignment problems, and I'm mapping and unmapping network drives at least once a week. Sometimes I mount and unmount drives quite a bit more often, and no problems.
Oh, my biggest stability secret: More Memory + Fixed virtual memory block! I have a gig of RAM and a gig of VM (pagefile) on this system, and won't run any less.
Good luck,
hanzie.
I think it might be a little more correct to substitute "wind power" for "air" in the writeup.
Essentially, the idea is to incorporate a windmill to power the phone.
Saying the phone is "Air" powered implys (to me, at least) that some chemical reaction is taking place using oxygen or nitrogen.
It is a cool idea, and the article implies that normal winds are sufficient to power the cell phone.
If the generator is small enough to actually be part of a cell phone, I'd think that scaling the design up might make economic sense for generating normal electric power. Unfortunately, there weren't any specifics, so it is tough to make any extrapolations.
The friends/foes thing has a use: Comment visibility.
You can up the score of friends and lower the score of foes. If you see someone who consistently posts comments worth reading, you can raise their comments automatically, while browsing at higher levels. You can do the opposite with people that are consistent enough trolls that you'd rather never hear from them again.
This is modified under the "comments" tab under prefrences.
I hope this is some help. It has been my experience that most slashdaughters aren't as bad your journal seems to suggest. You, for example, seem to be a non-lame slashdot member.
There are many others.
Unfortunately, your comment rates a +5 insightful.
I have to keep telling myself "if everyone was as smart as us, we'd only be making minimum wage"
One of the working assumptions in the Red Dwarf books is that Earth is the only planet that developed intelligent life. (later series changed that, but it was explicitly stated in the first two books)
Mabye we're the only intelligence life of the "techno" variety.
Either that, or no technological society survives long after discovering fission.
I'd assume that any Dyson sphere or ringworlds would be putting out quite a bit of electronic noise, and we'd hear about it. Mabye we will, when we start deploying antenna arrays hundreds of miles across in space.
I ended up with a copy of "Services for UNIX 3.0", but the cover said "120 day evaluation copy" so I never bothered to open it. Guess I'll take a look.
Thanks.
As a representative of a major company, he can bring down lawsuits for whatever he says. There are plenty of lawyers reading whatever he says, looking for an opening.
So yeah, there are definetly things he can't talk about publicly, like Xbox2 launch dates, pending litigation (everybody has pending litigation). Then there will be other stuff that he won't even know about -- MS is a big company.
Personally, I'm releived that we've actually got somebody with a voice in MS who certainly appears not to be a dick. It gives me some hope.
I'd really like to know if it is conceivable that MS would actually offer a "Windows" window manager to run atop linux. No reason they couldn't, and I'd sure as hell buy it for the windows boxes I have to run at work.