If the point to all of the *AAs' huffing and puffing is the financial gain of the people doing any sort of copying, and the MPAA can get away with making copies of this guy's movie, then we should all be able to breathe a sigh of relief, right?
(Well, in an ideal world, yes, but in our current bizarro-world where big corporations want to control every thought in your head and dollar in your pocket, no).
It also amuses me that they claim the copying was justified because their employees' privacy may have been voilated. Two wrongs don't make a right. Just because they believe laws were broken, doesn't mean they can break them as well.
Then again, these days, they make the laws, so yeah, I guess they can break them...
Money is what they need most. I just used PayPal to send twenty bucks. Just send some cash. Every penny helps, and these folks need new gear more than I do.
A few other folks alluded to what I was thinking when I read your post. You have to make it clear to your family/friends that the time and skill involved in fixing computers are just as valuable as a mechanic's time and skill. I routinely run across the "repeat-offenders" who always have the same problems, and always call me to fix them. The first time, I fix it for free and tell them how to avoid having it happen in the future. I politely make it clear that if I have to come back, I'm going to charge them for it. Try telling your family/friends: "Next time this happens, I'll expect dinner and a 12-pack", or "I normally work for (so and so amount) per hour, and I'm very busy. Next time I'll have to charge you something." If they're reasonable people, they'll understand and offer you money (or something equiv.) right away. If they're not, then you need to learn how to say "no":-)
Because most are black boxes, you have to take whoever the manufacturers word for it that they have a solid tcp/ip stack that won't be susceptible to this sort of attack.
A few people have been able to compile custom versions of the firmware that include some extra (and very cool) functionality. If the tcp/ip stack is part of Linksys' GPL'd packages (I'm not sure if it is), it can be examined.
Amen! Multiple monitors are useful, but there's no substitute for having two different workstations and two different platforms in front of you. At work I'm using Solaris on one side, Win2k on the other. At home it's Linux/Win2k.
It gets even better if you can run VNC or Synergy to tie things together.
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Excellent point! Now, if they would just release decent music, I'd be all for it!
exactly
If the point to all of the *AAs' huffing and puffing is the financial gain of the people doing any sort of copying, and the MPAA can get away with making copies of this guy's movie, then we should all be able to breathe a sigh of relief, right?
(Well, in an ideal world, yes, but in our current bizarro-world where big corporations want to control every thought in your head and dollar in your pocket, no).
It also amuses me that they claim the copying was justified because their employees' privacy may have been voilated. Two wrongs don't make a right. Just because they believe laws were broken, doesn't mean they can break them as well.
Then again, these days, they make the laws, so yeah, I guess they can break them...
I was tasked with removing what my employer at the time deemed "non-essential" users from a Solaris 6 system. I started issuing:
Everything was fine until I got to one of the users that had / listed as its home directory inWhen I roomed with somebody who loved tech as much as I did, the policy was "Hour of the day be damned -- if it's cool, do it!"
It's the same as complaining that your roommate smokes. The solution? Room with a non-smoker.
Money is what they need most. I just used PayPal to send twenty bucks. Just send some cash. Every penny helps, and these folks need new gear more than I do.
A few other folks alluded to what I was thinking when I read your post. You have to make it clear to your family/friends that the time and skill involved in fixing computers are just as valuable as a mechanic's time and skill. I routinely run across the "repeat-offenders" who always have the same problems, and always call me to fix them. The first time, I fix it for free and tell them how to avoid having it happen in the future. I politely make it clear that if I have to come back, I'm going to charge them for it. Try telling your family/friends: "Next time this happens, I'll expect dinner and a 12-pack", or "I normally work for (so and so amount) per hour, and I'm very busy. Next time I'll have to charge you something." If they're reasonable people, they'll understand and offer you money (or something equiv.) right away. If they're not, then you need to learn how to say "no" :-)
Because most are black boxes, you have to take whoever the manufacturers word for it that they have a solid tcp/ip stack that won't be susceptible to this sort of attack.
The Linksys WRT54G actually runs Linux
A few people have been able to compile custom versions of the firmware that include some extra (and very cool) functionality. If the tcp/ip stack is part of Linksys' GPL'd packages (I'm not sure if it is), it can be examined.
Amen! Multiple monitors are useful, but there's no substitute for having two different workstations and two different platforms in front of you. At work I'm using Solaris on one side, Win2k on the other. At home it's Linux/Win2k.
It gets even better if you can run VNC or Synergy to tie things together.
Win32 vi, you say?
Try this
I know this isn't the same as having a vi interface for Outlook, etc...but I'm in love with it.
...or was he referring to Take Five by Dave Brubeck?
My most-used tools:
Screwdriver with swappable magnetic bits. It's murphy's law: when the screw falls, it will fall into that one corner of the case that you can't reach.
Flashlight. Preferably a mini mag light. They're bright as hell and they're easy to hold in your teeth when you need both hands =)
Paper Clips. They're impossible to track down whenever the CD drive gets jammed, so you'd better have one on you.
Dentist's mirror. To read the serial number or FCC ID on that card that you're too lazy to pull out of the box.
Sledgehammer. For those really frustrating projects.
This is all pretty common-sense stuff, but with the exception of the sledgehammer, most of the jobs I do get done with those tools.