Perhaps talk to Optus about putting certain large files like this online for download at reduced bandwith cost (i.e. the bandwith used is say 10% when downloaded from their "mirror").
Telewest in the UK don't have any volume cap as yet, but they have recently started mirroring most of the linux and BSD distro's. A very good idea IMHO.
Let's not forget that the US is not everywhere. I'm in the UK and you can forget about charging me a buck, a pound maybe or a euro. For this to be in anyway reasonable it would have to be worldwide, which means a whole load of currency conversion. Should the rate be the same in a 3rd world country? Exactly who is going to administer this? One thing record companies do is to collect revenue for international sales.
They also do deals to get music used in films/tv/adverts. These activities attract income as well as increasing CD sales. I'm sure the average musician would just love to spend their time doing this.
Something to do with logrotate? I remember something like this in connection with logging from ipchains (kern level?) stopping due to logrotate. I think restarting syslogd caused the logging to restart.
The rules from my provider in the UK are these; They don't support networks, however you are free to connect one up. If you call support you'd better have the cable-modem connected directly to a windows pc. You may run servers that only allow 10 connections. You may not run an open-relay mailserver. You may not run an anonymous ftp box. I get 128K up and 512K down. No usage limit.
As of 7.1 (I think?) you don't need to burn CDs. Just D/L the iso images onto a partition, boot from floppy and choose a hard drive install.
This prevents you from using the graphical installer but it's not much of a loss. I suppose it also implies that you already have a partition... I don't know if you can use a dos formatted drive for this.
'It's really disturbing to think that the Internet's stability rests on the shoulders of these people, half of whom probably don't even understand the concept of keeping up-to-date with security patches.'
And one of the sites logged by my (Apache) server sending that get request? Stand up Microsoft.com!
Seriously though you make some good points.
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Perhaps talk to Optus about putting certain large files like this online for download at reduced bandwith cost (i.e. the bandwith used is say 10% when downloaded from their "mirror").
Telewest in the UK don't have any volume cap as yet, but they have recently started mirroring most of the linux and BSD distro's. A very good idea IMHO.
Let's not forget that the US is not everywhere. I'm in the UK and you can forget about charging me a buck, a pound maybe or a euro. For this to be in anyway reasonable it would have to be worldwide, which means a whole load of currency conversion. Should the rate be the same in a 3rd world country? Exactly who is going to administer this? One thing record companies do is to collect revenue for international sales.
They also do deals to get music used in films/tv/adverts. These activities attract income as well as increasing CD sales. I'm sure the average musician would just love to spend their time doing this.
Something to do with logrotate? I remember something like this in connection with logging from ipchains (kern level?) stopping due to logrotate. I think restarting syslogd caused the logging to restart.
The rules from my provider in the UK are these; They don't support networks, however you are free to connect one up. If you call support you'd better have the cable-modem connected directly to a windows pc. You may run servers that only allow 10 connections. You may not run an open-relay mailserver. You may not run an anonymous ftp box. I get 128K up and 512K down. No usage limit.
As of 7.1 (I think?) you don't need to burn CDs. Just D/L the iso images onto a partition, boot from floppy and choose a hard drive install. This prevents you from using the graphical installer but it's not much of a loss. I suppose it also implies that you already have a partition... I don't know if you can use a dos formatted drive for this.
'It's really disturbing to think that the Internet's stability rests on the shoulders of these people, half of whom probably don't even understand the concept of keeping up-to-date with security patches.' And one of the sites logged by my (Apache) server sending that get request? Stand up Microsoft.com! Seriously though you make some good points.
It also means the person taking the money has to open the till for change. Makes it harder for a shop assistant to simply pocket the money.