hmmm thats a cool cable tester, (got one sorta like it) but I was looking for a simple thing (well, alot of them) that I could plug into a patch panel, and see which ports are active.
Thanks anyways.
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(Are you sure you included a URL? Didja test them for typos?)
Seems like the second link is either dead, or slashdotted.
Anyways, led flashlights are cool, but make them yourself and save $$. Shit, I've seen lamps for over $40!!
OK. Speaking of LED's - does anyone know where to get these things that plug into cat-5 hub/switches ports - sorta like really primitive, really compact testers? They light up differently depending on whether the outlet is wired right/wrong/has data on it. Look like cable ends?
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The point is that this was released in retaliation for what Tivo did. It still is evil etc... but fuckit, the technology works for us for the time being.
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you don't pay for the newspaper, your local advertisers do. Subscription pays the delivery boy and getting it from the box pays for the land the box sits upon.
Still. ..
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This is the most insightful post I've seen on/. for quite some time.
One thing - brittney fake-tits spears is not an artist - shit - the bitch can't even sing. She's a wet dream for young teenage males and a "role model" (fuck I hope not) for the preteen / early teenage girls.
In this case, fuck B.S.
Fuckin' labels have turned everything pop - rap is piss poor, any sort of rock (except for some heavy rock / metal) sounds like Jimmy Buffet with drums instead of oil drums. Country, same thing, no Johnny Cash anymore. Not that Shania Twain is a little easier on the eyes.
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Oooh... Is this the university that photoshop'ed a black dude on the course catalog last year? I wouldn't call them facists, but "people of other religions / color" have a hard time buying houses in the SLC area.
Racial profiling and discrimination are also wonderful aspects of Utah society.
Racist religious thugs would be more appropriate.
Of course, this is the USA, what should I expect from a country who has, as one of their founding principles, the idea that "all men are created equal"?
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Shitty deal for you no doubt, but you do have some recourse.
Talk to the ACLU, they love this kind of stuff. I'm almost certain that they will back you.
If your school has a student grievance procedure, check up on it _NOW_. Most colleges/universities have a deadline for a grievance that is extremley short. Take this to the top i.e. College President, Division Deans, etc... There are usually several levels, appeal this to the top.
Also it would help to read the "Student Rights and Responsibilities" book.
Often there is a clause which states that you can not be diciplined for something like this.
It's Utah though, I have no idea what the "founding mormons" have decided.
If the ACLU backs you though, forget any sort of "in school" action - go straight to court.
Shit, you're banned from the campus anyways. Send the university registered letters asking for an appeal hearing, et al. Email / letters from them saying that the issue has "been decided and there is nothing you can do about it" are great in civil court. Especially if a student right is to be able to attend the university.
Most "in-school" stuff will not allow you to have a lawyer present anyways, which will probably screw you because they will have their top law professor there, representing the school. This is probably the most dangerous for you.
It looks as though your education at that school is kind of finished without legal intervention. Accept that for now, then start suing. If the ACLU doesn't take this, you should have lawyers calling you up offering to do the case with no up-front fee.
If they filled criminal charges against you, that really sucks because you know the prosecution is going to get "very mormon" people as the jury. It's not like there is racial diversity in Utah. Though, this is a fairly clear cut case of a school overstepping its boundaries.
If you do win in court (i.e. you can continue school), sue these fuckers as much as you can. You can reasonably assured of victory, especially if a court ruled that the school overstepped its boundaries in dealing with you.
File lawsuits based on harrasment, theft of intelectual and other property (I'm sure that they took something of yours - a book perhaps, shit, even a pen), libel, slander.
I believe (probably not in this country, or Utah) that you can charge the College President with criminal assault if you were physically touched by the police.
Get the student government to sue on the behalf of the students. Assuming they are elected and not hired, and are willing to step forward (i.e. not sheep led by a Dean), of course.
And get the site back up . . .
If it all fails, leave to a non-extradition treaty country (colombia), hire some hitmen and let them loose on the administration. The price should be about the same as a year of school. Seriously, $5000 in colombia will hire you a very decent hitman, and another 2,000 or 3,000 will get them into the USA.
A hit in ukraine costs about $100.
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Thankfully Microsoft's technotes addressed the solution (Last Known Good), but I thought it took a little gaul on their parts to retroactively make working software incompatible with Windows.
gall, not gaul.
Though, if you think about it, quite a bit did not work with 2k that worked with previous versions of windows.
My scanner drivers and cd indexing program come to mind.
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udf rulez!!! Seriously. Writing data via that is a fucking pain - it screws up half the time, is slower than writing an iso and not everybody can read udf format.
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if they ask, you ripped them on a trip to canada, where it is legal.
Same thing with dvd's / dvd rips. It's illegal to rip the DVD's in the USA, but is legal, under fair use, to posses them in the united states.
I wonder if someone could open a business in canada, backing up dvd's "legally" to divx and sending them back to users in the USA. I have a feeling that someone in the customs office would get a new car / house and 99% of those packages would be "stopped" at customs for several weeks.
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When hundreds / thousands went to buy EZ Cd Creator to show their support for roxio - it was noticed - perhaps it was only a drop in the bucket, but it was relevant - otherwise they wouldn't of have announced it (i.e. pr=free advertising)
Now, those sales are not going to be there, and a majority of the/.'ers who buy a cd burning program will not buy Roxio products. Even if it is a passive message, the message is still there. It's not like roxio is going to miss their x quarter profits, but if your software is bundled with "crapware", people are more likely to pirate / crack the software itself, _if_ they need to use it.
Yes, by all means, if the situation is created that is "inhospitable" to the consumer, the consumer should stand up and say "fuck company x", after all, this is what keeps the suppliers in touch with the consumers.
Customer loyalty is a load of crap and is very outdated.
If "company x" starts making crap (and there is competition, unlike M$, cause my parents can't use linux / kde / x, I tried it, square pegs don't fit into round holes.) then consumers will choose the competition, company x better fix their shit or be put out of business.
Welcome to the democracy called capatalism.
About the third paragraph of your post - I don't think you are in the majority of ther users with cd burners. Lets be honest with ourselves - cd burners are for one of several things.
List (in order)
#1. Warez / a copy of ms office
#2. Mp3z / CD Audio (pirated)
#3. Moviez (i.e. bootlegs or dvd rips)
#4. Other (actual work, porn)
This is for both home / work use, although at work, actual business related things might be one or two (ok.. maybe three) items up the list.
You back up shit at work to a tape drive - or a high capacity optical disk - not to a 650mb cdr.
Lets be honest to ourselves here.
Anyways, my point is that although you won't mind it - because you are one of the rare honest people (or a poser, wow, that word is so 80's) - other people who rely on their CDRW drives for the above "traditional" uses will.
You are an exception, most likely roxio will not find a market and will discontinue this unless the RIAA gives them more $ for this.
Though judging by the greed of the RIAA (or it just be a markup because all their stuff is pirated), invididual songs will cost $5, which isn't really important because there will be ways to hack it.
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Yeah, but wtf does roxio need ie dll's for?
That may be their excuse, but I'm betting that 4.0 has some code for this that can be activated by an "update".
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overpriced mp3 gear? a basic wma/mp2/mp3cd player for $75? while a standard cd player costs about the same?
Shit, get a rio volt for 150 and read damn near every other audio format outthere - also has a flashbios updateable by cdrom.
Besides, as cool as md is, that hardware was too freakin' expensive
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yeah, well, google, with all that news on the front page, is kinda exciting as a homepage. Besides, parents tend to use yahoo. . . Don't know your age, but mine aren't exactly ready for a homepage without crap on it.
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Damn ac's.
Anyways, the only reason Taco bell recalled that food was because a "person in the media" was going to let the public know. FDA, I believe, knew, but since it was "low-risk" decided to let it slide.
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Thanks anyways.
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loraksussr@hotmail.com
are you also trying to imply that radio shack was hertz-so-good?
I'll try your email if you don't respond, I can't exactly believe its real.
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Seems like the second link is either dead, or slashdotted.
Anyways, led flashlights are cool, but make them yourself and save $$. Shit, I've seen lamps for over $40!!
OK. Speaking of LED's - does anyone know where to get these things that plug into cat-5 hub/switches ports - sorta like really primitive, really compact testers? They light up differently depending on whether the outlet is wired right/wrong/has data on it. Look like cable ends?
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Need I say more?
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Still. .
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This is the most insightful post I've seen on
One thing - brittney fake-tits spears is not an artist - shit - the bitch can't even sing. She's a wet dream for young teenage males and a "role model" (fuck I hope not) for the preteen / early teenage girls.
In this case, fuck B.S.
Fuckin' labels have turned everything pop - rap is piss poor, any sort of rock (except for some heavy rock / metal) sounds like Jimmy Buffet with drums instead of oil drums. Country, same thing, no Johnny Cash anymore. Not that Shania Twain is a little easier on the eyes.
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Oooh... Is this the university that photoshop'ed a black dude on the course catalog last year? I wouldn't call them facists, but "people of other religions / color" have a hard time buying houses in the SLC area.
Racial profiling and discrimination are also wonderful aspects of Utah society.
Racist religious thugs would be more appropriate.
Of course, this is the USA, what should I expect from a country who has, as one of their founding principles, the idea that "all men are created equal"?
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Talk to the ACLU, they love this kind of stuff. I'm almost certain that they will back you.
If your school has a student grievance procedure, check up on it _NOW_. Most colleges/universities have a deadline for a grievance that is extremley short. Take this to the top i.e. College President, Division Deans, etc... There are usually several levels, appeal this to the top.
Also it would help to read the "Student Rights and Responsibilities" book.
Often there is a clause which states that you can not be diciplined for something like this.
It's Utah though, I have no idea what the "founding mormons" have decided.
If the ACLU backs you though, forget any sort of "in school" action - go straight to court.
Shit, you're banned from the campus anyways. Send the university registered letters asking for an appeal hearing, et al. Email / letters from them saying that the issue has "been decided and there is nothing you can do about it" are great in civil court. Especially if a student right is to be able to attend the university.
Most "in-school" stuff will not allow you to have a lawyer present anyways, which will probably screw you because they will have their top law professor there, representing the school. This is probably the most dangerous for you.
It looks as though your education at that school is kind of finished without legal intervention. Accept that for now, then start suing. If the ACLU doesn't take this, you should have lawyers calling you up offering to do the case with no up-front fee.
If they filled criminal charges against you, that really sucks because you know the prosecution is going to get "very mormon" people as the jury. It's not like there is racial diversity in Utah. Though, this is a fairly clear cut case of a school overstepping its boundaries.
If you do win in court (i.e. you can continue school), sue these fuckers as much as you can. You can reasonably assured of victory, especially if a court ruled that the school overstepped its boundaries in dealing with you.
File lawsuits based on harrasment, theft of intelectual and other property (I'm sure that they took something of yours - a book perhaps, shit, even a pen), libel, slander.
I believe (probably not in this country, or Utah) that you can charge the College President with criminal assault if you were physically touched by the police.
Get the student government to sue on the behalf of the students. Assuming they are elected and not hired, and are willing to step forward (i.e. not sheep led by a Dean), of course.
And get the site back up . . .
If it all fails, leave to a non-extradition treaty country (colombia), hire some hitmen and let them loose on the administration. The price should be about the same as a year of school. Seriously, $5000 in colombia will hire you a very decent hitman, and another 2,000 or 3,000 will get them into the USA.
A hit in ukraine costs about $100.
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gall, not gaul.
Though, if you think about it, quite a bit did not work with 2k that worked with previous versions of windows.
My scanner drivers and cd indexing program come to mind.
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Same thing with dvd's / dvd rips. It's illegal to rip the DVD's in the USA, but is legal, under fair use, to posses them in the united states.
I wonder if someone could open a business in canada, backing up dvd's "legally" to divx and sending them back to users in the USA. I have a feeling that someone in the customs office would get a new car / house and 99% of those packages would be "stopped" at customs for several weeks.
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Now, those sales are not going to be there, and a majority of the
Yes, by all means, if the situation is created that is "inhospitable" to the consumer, the consumer should stand up and say "fuck company x", after all, this is what keeps the suppliers in touch with the consumers.
Customer loyalty is a load of crap and is very outdated.
If "company x" starts making crap (and there is competition, unlike M$, cause my parents can't use linux / kde / x, I tried it, square pegs don't fit into round holes.) then consumers will choose the competition, company x better fix their shit or be put out of business.
Welcome to the democracy called capatalism.
About the third paragraph of your post - I don't think you are in the majority of ther users with cd burners. Lets be honest with ourselves - cd burners are for one of several things.
List (in order)
#1. Warez / a copy of ms office
#2. Mp3z / CD Audio (pirated)
#3. Moviez (i.e. bootlegs or dvd rips)
#4. Other (actual work, porn)
This is for both home / work use, although at work, actual business related things might be one or two (ok.. maybe three) items up the list.
You back up shit at work to a tape drive - or a high capacity optical disk - not to a 650mb cdr.
Lets be honest to ourselves here.
Anyways, my point is that although you won't mind it - because you are one of the rare honest people (or a poser, wow, that word is so 80's) - other people who rely on their CDRW drives for the above "traditional" uses will.
You are an exception, most likely roxio will not find a market and will discontinue this unless the RIAA gives them more $ for this.
Though judging by the greed of the RIAA (or it just be a markup because all their stuff is pirated), invididual songs will cost $5, which isn't really important because there will be ways to hack it.
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Shit, get a rio volt for 150 and read damn near every other audio format outthere - also has a flashbios updateable by cdrom.
Besides, as cool as md is, that hardware was too freakin' expensive
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I have not been to an AOL site in years. . .
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?"
Be Happy.
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Remember - arrays are FUN!
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Anyways, the only reason Taco bell recalled that food was because a "person in the media" was going to let the public know. FDA, I believe, knew, but since it was "low-risk" decided to let it slide.
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