please don't assume all linux users are the kind of people who don't know about *nix and who don't know the difference between a username and a UID. There are some people who aren't knowledgeable, and it's likely due to the fact that Linux is getting so darned easy to use, but it doesn't mean Linux doesn't have just as many knowledgable users as FreeBSD.
FreeBSD waybsd.ops.tvol.net 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #3 Linux waylinux.ops.tvol.net 2.0.38
I actually recently switched TO first union, got myself one of their CAP accounts. Not bad on fees (a $90 annual fee or something since I don't have $250,000 in financial business with them), but there's a on-line brokerage, fee-free on-line billpay, fee-free on-line account management. Free use of ATM, both First Union and not, Free use of tellers also, free checks. As for the credit card, I haven't had issues with my credit account, or my margin account yet. No complaints here, nothing like the run-arounds I'd get regularly at Mellon Bank (the only bank I know of which literally lost a deposited check)
I have never had an issue with this, and have done it numerous times. The issue, as far as I know, is that car rental places, and often hotels and such will place a hold on some amount far more than your bill ($1,000 hold for a $250 car rental and such) so if you don't have a fair amount of excess cash floating in that account, you can "run out of credit" even when you really have plenty. I've also seen instances, though it never happened to me, where these holds and such profiled the card as 'unusual use' and it got placed into a fraud protection hold.
While I agree this is true for the types of things you're talking about. As an amateur musician, and a concert taper, I burn a LOT of discs, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3/day. And they're all legal, as many bands allow and encourage taping and trading of their lives shows.
Had I moved to Canada, this would mean that I'd be paying somewhere in the neighbourhood of $11.00/day to continue my perfectly legal hobby.
How would they decide how much the tax is for things digital multi-track stuff? 74 cents per 15 minutes per pair of channels? or would something that accepts an hour and a half of 8-track digital audio now be taxed at $17/tape, as it can hold 6 hours of 2-track digital audio?
The bottom line is that there is no such thing as a secure digital format, and it's time that some of these legal-types realize that the most compelling reason to pay for music is a desire to support the musicians we love.
I have high quality digital outs from my computer, and DAT decks and a CD-R which all ignore SCMS. The best they could do for stopping digital copying would be to set the SCMS copy-protect bits on the digital-out, but that's not going to stop anybody who doesn't WANT to pay for their music, as professional gear all ignores copy-protect (well, not ignores... most of the time you can choose 0-copies allowed, 1 allowed, or infinite allowed from a menu), and anybody who is into digital recording is aware of the existance of SCMS strippers anyway.
Best wishes corporate legal-types.. my music collection is 100% legal, but I think I'm starting to be a rarity.
in userland (gcc comes to mind) and optionally in the kernel... to quote LINT from FreeBSD 3.2
# A math emulator is mandatory if you wish to run on hardware which # does not have a floating-point processor. Pick either the original, # bogus (but freely-distributable) math emulator, or a much more # fully-featured but GPL-licensed emulator taken from Linux.
Now let's turn the flame throwers off and realize that there are more important things to argue about than licenses. After all, I think most of us use BSD and GPL software constantly. I have a FreeBSD machine, a Linux machine, and an NT machine here at work, and I use 'em all. I know I'm not alone.
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It's not a free software supporter, but check out http://llamacom.com. telnet, mysql, php3, mod_perl, ssh, own domain, unlimited mail forwarding... i believe prices are $7-50 or so... I've got a few domains hosted by them for $20/month.
1) unix does not run telnet in the kernel, generally it is run from inetd or xinetd or an equivalent, in USER space. I've personally never even heard of kernel space telnet implementation, though I've only been in *nix for six or seven years now.
2) okay, let's say NT has telnet now (there have been third party ones all the time). Can I 'export DISPLAY="myhost.domain.com:0.0"' and then run graphical programs with the graphics seamlessly flowing over the net (or better yet, tunnel it all through SSH?) after all, the GUI is the NT strength,no?
3) I just wish these tests would die.... it's already been well noted, that if a good security professional decided to take one week to work on the w2K site, he'd be losing (assuming $300/hr takehome) around $12,000 for the privilege of making random attempts to break a system that he doesn't have time to properly inspect anyway. ah well, such is publicity.
A&E's Blair Witch Fanatic Page contains all sorts of info about the movie included whether or not it was real.... and how it was filmed... and whether or not they were actually hiking a planned route and carrying a GPS with them and were never in any danger.
Regarding the film though, I was very impressed with the effective construction of the movie around the lack of a budget. It all added realism, the lack of a steady-cam, the cheap, grainy film, the difficulties which really would be associated with doing sound in their locations and situations. It was great.
To those of you who think it's real... please... don't go see it. If it were real, it would be no more than a snuff film. It'd be... disgusting and tasteless. If you say that because of the advertising, please also remember that advertisements claim that all detergents get whites whiter and brights brighter, that The Thirteenth Floor doesn't suck, and that if you use a certain deoderant, you'll 'get a little closer' with a cute member of the opposite sex in no time flat.
Depending on the amount of faxing that goes on, faxaway might not be cost-effective. My previous employer used Faxaway and we found it to have a lot of hidden costs, such as fees if a certain percentage of faxes were not delivered. We ended up settling on an in-house NT based system though, so I'm not much use for alternatives.
Depending on how much you're faxing, and what your LD rate is, faxaway can end up being quite a bit more expensive than a fax server. (we ended up saving about 4 cents a fax by not using Faxaway)
btw: the faxaway webpage currently shows $.11/minute as the going rate.
In the past 6 months I've probably sent and received a total of 100 USPS packages with the only loss occuring on a package to canada. (probably got stuck in customs...)
As for e-mail versus snail mail, e-mail your love with a fine sentiment, nice reaction right? now buy some stationary and write them a letter. Even if your handwriting is horrid, I'm sure you'll like the reaction better. There's nothing like an unexpected letter/card/package.
My only question is where did they get my e-mail address. If anyone knows how they compiled this list, I'd be very appreciative. It was sent to my main personal address, not any of my tagged addresses. I appreciate the offer, and if it weren't for an employment agreement which forbids me from purchasing securities from anyone other than my employer, I'd have my money over in e-trade faster than you can say 'redhat is evil'.
I'd just like to know how they determined that I had made "a contribution to the open source community".
Thanks for the generous offer, RedHat. That's one IPO that I'd LOVE to be in.
While I'm glad to read the original notice given to Harvard, the fact of the matter is that network administrators have a daunting task when it comes to security. While you refer to PacketStorm as an "underground" publication, the fact of the matter is that in high-security systems, one HAS to use every available resource, from CERT to the better security sites that truly are "underground".
I understand your considerable outrage at the alleged contents of the/jp directory (I haven't seen them, there is no available reference, therefore I can't check the veracity of any claims regarding the contents therein) but in your haste to remove the inappropriate and libellious material, you have destroyed a valuable resource.
If the allegations are true, then what Ken Williams did on those pages was wrong, but destroying a reference that professionals use daily is just as wrong.
I hope you'll write a letter to Harvard explaining that you only wanted the offensive material removed, and that much of the other material is valued by the security community.
but price the licensing for those products. Unless there's maybe 5 users, he's not installing all that. My company did a Linux->NT migration as I walked out the door and Exchange alone ran us a few thousand dollars for 50 users. (sorry, I don't pay attention to prices, I tend to sign off on anything remotely reasonable)
My position comes from the fact that I'm currently leaving a position at one of those 'recruiting companies' and the fact that I left by getting a job through one of those recruiting companies, so I think I have a fairly balanced view of these things.
Advice for you: - Use whatever format they request, if they didn't request a particular format, the job was for WordPerfect, and you submitted a.wpf that's perfectly reasonable, but understand that the recruiter is not neccessarily a computer genius. If you've ever worked help desk, or known somebody who did, I'm certain you understand that.
- Remember that a recruiter works for you, not vice versa. If you don't feel comfortable with them, get a new one. There are thousands of choices, I personally went through three until I found a recruiter I felt comfortable trusting the future of my career with.
- Remember there are lots of jobs. I mean, LOTS of jobs. Don't focus on the fact that you're losing this job with a juicy raise due to the fact you won't work this recruiting firm, focus on finding a new recruiting firm, you'll be much happier in the end.
Advice for the recruiters: - You'll do the best long-term by making people happy and remembering that without those placements, you don't get any commissions. Despite the fact that 80% of all resumes are trash, don't assume that the one that came in.wpf format is trash. After all, if you end up placing that candidate, it might mean a couple thousand bucks in your pocket (or more if they're GOOD)
- Learn how to open WordPerfect documents with word. If you can't do that, compose a polite form letter explaining the situation and ask for a DOC, RTF or a Fax.
I apologize for the unprofessional behavior of some Linux community members. I'm quite certain you realize that anytime you gather 5 or 10 million people together in something, there will be those who will be professional, and there will be those that due to a lapse in judgement write the things that you've posted to your linux net rage webpage. I hope you realize that while there was much anger due to many things regarding your tests, and I'm certain you can understand it whether or not you agree with it, and you're displaying the down side of constructive criticism of something that people care about.
I'm quite certain that if I criticized anything on the internet, with or without facts to defend my position, I'd end up with a similar looking Inbox. It's a sad reality that the internet makes dissemination of information and opinions from anybody, to anybody, quick and easy. Sometimes it makes it so fast and easy, that there isn't sufficient thought involved. I'm not defending the actions of those who submitted those particular comments to you, but I hope you can understand that it isn't everyone.
I hope you understand that while the majority of the Linux community has felt the benchmarks to be biased, unfair and generally irrelevant, that most of our leaders chose to write intelligent criticisms of the benchmark, just as you wrote a criticism of Linux with respect to NT, simply and professionally. Name-calling and the use of profanity is as unjustified as it is pointless. I'd like to apologize on behalf of the authors of the messages you are displaying and also on behalf of the authors of the inflammatory messages which surely you received but did not publicize.
I sincerely hope that you'll reconsider your decision to publicize those particular examples of net.abuse. I think it's probably best for the reputations of the Mindcraft corporation and the Linux community, both, to not display what we all know is one of the saddest realities of the net.
Music is my hobby and I take my hobbies seriously. As such, when I heard about.mp2 I was interested and when I heard about.mp3, even more so. But so far they've all failed in some way or another, no matter what bitrate you choose.
Why mp3 is good: free stuff -- sometimes legally, mostly not convenience -- It took me about 15 minutes to track down mp3's of the Moxy Fruvous indie tape. It took me several months to find the original tape those came off of, and when I did, it was an expensive, used tape, not an unsealed nor the super-rare cd. space-savings -- It's true, if I put my 500 cd collection to mp3, it would fit nicely on a couple large hard drives.
why cd is better than mp3: jewel boxes -- I like to see and feel the artwork, to read the original lyric sheets and actually hold the original case in my hands. Some CDs offer nothing in this manner, but some cd's have carefully chosen artwork, and even paper stock along with subtle things like unlisted alternate titles in the lyric sheets (check Smashing Pumpkins -- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for an easy-to-obtain album that has all of these things) sound quality -- Nobody will ever convince me that mp3's are cd-quality, because if I A/B them it's not just possible to tell which is CD or DAT and which is mp3, it's downright easy, it can be done within the first 5 seconds usually, and that's using computer speakers. On a professional or high-end consumer sound system the difference is immediately apparent and to anyone who has invested serious money in their equipment, it's also immediately annoying. Who wants to playback mp3s on a system that they've dropped tens of thousands or even just thousands of dollars on? collectibility -- the article hammered this one, but it's true. I own quite a few cd rarities, most of which I acquired before they were rare. Which is more interesting, a person's reaction when they turn to their favorite group and see all sorts of Imports, EPs, singles and concert recordings that they've never heard before, or if they do a cd/mp3/r/radiohead and ls reveals mp3s of the album. How will they know what the packaging looked like?
If you ever want some proof A/B a DVD disc from a good DVD player and the same disc on the same good television (sony xbr or equivalent to be sure it's OBVIOUS, not just visible) on a DivX player and you can easily tell which you're watching through
I have the opposite situation so I'd imagine it evens out. Theoretically I own 5 copies of various Win98/NT. I use one. I theoretically own one copy of Linux, I use 4. I'd imagine that the more professional Linux usage counts would take these types of statistics into account and correct for it both ways.
I have DirecTV + USSB over here with no complaints. Good sound feed, great video quality, and so far no interruptions due to weather (eastern pennsylvania location). The only problem is the networks, I still have to get ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox through an antenna due to the fact that I live in a service area. If you can get a waiver from your local stations or live X miles away from an antenna (not sure of the value of X), you can get those channels though. By default they show up in the guide and just don't work though. As for cost, It's reasonable if you don't go too nuts with the premium channels. My bill averages a little over $100 a month, but that's because I get quite literally EVERYTHING but the adult stations from both providers and that also includes the "rentals" from PPV at three bucks a whack.
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please don't assume all linux users are the kind of people who don't know about *nix and who don't know the difference between a username and a UID. There are some people who aren't knowledgeable, and it's likely due to the fact that Linux is getting so darned easy to use, but it doesn't mean Linux doesn't have just as many knowledgable users as FreeBSD.
FreeBSD waybsd.ops.tvol.net 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #3
Linux waylinux.ops.tvol.net 2.0.38
(my two main desktops)
I actually recently switched TO first union, got myself one of their CAP accounts. Not bad on fees (a $90 annual fee or something since I don't have $250,000 in financial business with them), but there's a on-line brokerage, fee-free on-line billpay, fee-free on-line account management. Free use of ATM, both First Union and not, Free use of tellers also, free checks. As for the credit card, I haven't had issues with my credit account, or my margin account yet. No complaints here, nothing like the run-arounds I'd get regularly at Mellon Bank (the only bank I know of which literally lost a deposited check)
I have never had an issue with this, and have done it numerous times. The issue, as far as I know, is that car rental places, and often hotels and such will place a hold on some amount far more than your bill ($1,000 hold for a $250 car rental and such) so if you don't have a fair amount of excess cash floating in that account, you can "run out of credit" even when you really have plenty.
I've also seen instances, though it never happened to me, where these holds and such profiled the card as 'unusual use' and it got placed into a fraud protection hold.
While I agree this is true for the types of things you're talking about. As an amateur musician, and a concert taper, I burn a LOT of discs, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3/day. And they're all legal, as many bands allow and encourage taping and trading of their lives shows.
Had I moved to Canada, this would mean that I'd be paying somewhere in the neighbourhood of $11.00/day to continue my perfectly legal hobby.
How would they decide how much the tax is for things digital multi-track stuff? 74 cents per 15 minutes per pair of channels? or would something that accepts an hour and a half of 8-track digital audio now be taxed at $17/tape, as it can hold 6 hours of 2-track digital audio?
The bottom line is that there is no such thing as a secure digital format, and it's time that some of these legal-types realize that the most compelling reason to pay for music is a desire to support the musicians we love.
I have high quality digital outs from my computer, and DAT decks and a CD-R which all ignore SCMS. The best they could do for stopping digital copying would be to set the SCMS copy-protect bits on the digital-out, but that's not going to stop anybody who doesn't WANT to pay for their music, as professional gear all ignores copy-protect (well, not ignores... most of the time you can choose 0-copies allowed, 1 allowed, or infinite allowed from a menu), and anybody who is into digital recording is aware of the existance of SCMS strippers anyway.
Best wishes corporate legal-types.. my music collection is 100% legal, but I think I'm starting to be a rarity.
# A math emulator is mandatory if you wish to run on hardware which
# does not have a floating-point processor. Pick either the original,
# bogus (but freely-distributable) math emulator, or a much more
# fully-featured but GPL-licensed emulator taken from Linux.
Now let's turn the flame throwers off and realize that there are more important things to argue about than licenses. After all, I think most of us use BSD and GPL software constantly. I have a FreeBSD machine, a Linux machine, and an NT machine here at work, and I use 'em all. I know I'm not alone.
It's not a free software supporter, but check out http://llamacom.com. telnet, mysql, php3, mod_perl, ssh, own domain, unlimited mail forwarding... i believe prices are $7-50 or so... I've got a few domains hosted by them for $20/month.
1) unix does not run telnet in the kernel, generally it is run from inetd or xinetd or an equivalent, in USER space. I've personally never even heard of kernel space telnet implementation, though I've only been in *nix for six or seven years now.
2) okay, let's say NT has telnet now (there have been third party ones all the time). Can I 'export DISPLAY="myhost.domain.com:0.0"' and then run graphical programs with the graphics seamlessly flowing over the net (or better yet, tunnel it all through SSH?) after all, the GUI is the NT strength,no?
3) I just wish these tests would die.... it's already been well noted, that if a good security professional decided to take one week to work on the w2K site, he'd be losing (assuming $300/hr takehome) around $12,000 for the privilege of making random attempts to break a system that he doesn't have time to properly inspect anyway. ah well, such is publicity.
Regarding the film though, I was very impressed with the effective construction of the movie around the lack of a budget. It all added realism, the lack of a steady-cam, the cheap, grainy film, the difficulties which really would be associated with doing sound in their locations and situations. It was great.
To those of you who think it's real... please... don't go see it. If it were real, it would be no more than a snuff film. It'd be... disgusting and tasteless. If you say that because of the advertising, please also remember that advertisements claim that all detergents get whites whiter and brights brighter, that The Thirteenth Floor doesn't suck, and that if you use a certain deoderant, you'll 'get a little closer' with a cute member of the opposite sex in no time flat.
Depending on the amount of faxing that goes on, faxaway might not be cost-effective. My previous employer used Faxaway and we found it to have a lot of hidden costs, such as fees if a certain percentage of faxes were not delivered. We ended up settling on an in-house NT based system though, so I'm not much use for alternatives.
Depending on how much you're faxing, and what your LD rate is, faxaway can end up being quite a bit more expensive than a fax server. (we ended up saving about 4 cents a fax by not using Faxaway)
btw: the faxaway webpage currently shows $.11/minute as the going rate.
I suggest that everyone take The World's Smallest Political Quiz if they haven't already.
In the past 6 months I've probably sent and received a total of 100 USPS packages with the only loss occuring on a package to canada. (probably got stuck in customs...)
As for e-mail versus snail mail, e-mail your love with a fine sentiment, nice reaction right? now buy some stationary and write them a letter. Even if your handwriting is horrid, I'm sure you'll like the reaction better. There's nothing like an unexpected letter/card/package.
I was simply wondering what portion of the people who were complaining received the offer and were able to make good on it.
Not to be rude, but I'm wondering about those of you who are complaining about this being spam...
a) did not receive the e-mail?
b) do you currently invest in securities?
c) do you have the budget to participate?
d) do you trust on-line commerce enough to put money into e*trade?
e) are you unable to participate due to other restrictions? (location, contractual agreements, etc.)
Now here's to hoping this gets moderated to a place that people respond....
My only question is where did they get my e-mail address. If anyone knows how they compiled this list, I'd be very appreciative. It was sent to my main personal address, not any of my tagged addresses. I appreciate the offer, and if it weren't for an employment agreement which forbids me from purchasing securities from anyone other than my employer, I'd have my money over in e-trade faster than you can say 'redhat is evil'.
I'd just like to know how they determined that I had made "a contribution to the open source community".
Thanks for the generous offer, RedHat. That's one IPO that I'd LOVE to be in.
John-
/jp directory (I haven't seen them, there is no available reference, therefore I can't check the veracity of any claims regarding the contents therein) but in your haste to remove the inappropriate and libellious material, you have destroyed a valuable resource.
While I'm glad to read the original notice given to Harvard, the fact of the matter is that network administrators have a daunting task when it comes to security. While you refer to PacketStorm as an "underground" publication, the fact of the matter is that in high-security systems, one HAS to use every available resource, from CERT to the better security sites that truly are "underground".
I understand your considerable outrage at the alleged contents of the
If the allegations are true, then what Ken Williams did on those pages was wrong, but destroying a reference that professionals use daily is just as wrong.
I hope you'll write a letter to Harvard explaining that you only wanted the offensive material removed, and that much of the other material is valued by the security community.
Kevin Way
but price the licensing for those products. Unless there's maybe 5 users, he's not installing all that. My company did a Linux->NT migration as I walked out the door and Exchange alone ran us a few thousand dollars for 50 users. (sorry, I don't pay attention to prices, I tend to sign off on anything remotely reasonable)
My position comes from the fact that I'm currently leaving a position at one of those 'recruiting companies' and the fact that I left by getting a job through one of those recruiting companies, so I think I have a fairly balanced view of these things.
.wpf that's perfectly reasonable, but understand that the recruiter is not neccessarily a computer genius.
.wpf format is trash. After all, if you end up placing that candidate, it might mean a couple thousand bucks in your pocket (or more if they're GOOD)
Advice for you:
- Use whatever format they request, if they didn't request a particular format, the job was for WordPerfect, and you submitted a
If you've ever worked help desk, or known somebody who did, I'm certain you understand that.
- Remember that a recruiter works for you, not vice versa. If you don't feel comfortable with them, get a new one. There are thousands of choices, I personally went through three until I found a recruiter I felt comfortable trusting the future of my career with.
- Remember there are lots of jobs. I mean, LOTS of jobs. Don't focus on the fact that you're losing this job with a juicy raise due to the fact you won't work this recruiting firm, focus on finding a new recruiting firm, you'll be much happier in the end.
Advice for the recruiters:
- You'll do the best long-term by making people happy and remembering that without those placements, you don't get any commissions. Despite the fact that 80% of all resumes are trash, don't assume that the one that came in
- Learn how to open WordPerfect documents with word. If you can't do that, compose a polite form letter explaining the situation and ask for a DOC, RTF or a Fax.
Dear Sirs and Madams:
I apologize for the unprofessional behavior of some Linux community members. I'm quite certain you realize that anytime you gather 5 or 10 million people together in something, there will be those who will be professional, and there will be those that due to a lapse in judgement write the things that you've posted to your linux net rage webpage. I hope you realize that while there was much anger due to many things regarding your tests, and I'm certain you can understand it whether or not you agree with it, and you're displaying the down side of constructive criticism of something that people care about.
I'm quite certain that if I criticized anything on the internet, with or without facts to defend my position, I'd end up with a similar looking Inbox. It's a sad reality that the internet makes dissemination of information and opinions from anybody, to anybody, quick and easy. Sometimes it makes it so fast and easy, that there isn't sufficient thought involved. I'm not defending the actions of those who submitted those particular comments to you, but I hope you can understand that it isn't everyone.
I hope you understand that while the majority of the Linux community has felt the benchmarks to be biased, unfair and generally irrelevant, that most of our leaders chose to write intelligent criticisms of the benchmark, just as you wrote a criticism of Linux with respect to NT, simply and professionally. Name-calling and the use of profanity is as unjustified as it is pointless. I'd like to apologize on behalf of the authors of the messages you are displaying and also on behalf of the authors of the inflammatory messages which surely you received but did not publicize.
I sincerely hope that you'll reconsider your decision to publicize those particular examples of net.abuse. I think it's probably best for the reputations of the Mindcraft corporation and the Linux community, both, to not display what we all know is one of the saddest realities of the net.
Sincerely,
Kevin Way
Music is my hobby and I take my hobbies seriously. As such, when I heard about .mp2 I was interested and when I heard about .mp3, even more so. But so far they've all failed in some way or another, no matter what bitrate you choose.
/mp3/r/radiohead and ls reveals mp3s of the album. How will they know what the packaging looked like?
Why mp3 is good:
free stuff -- sometimes legally, mostly not
convenience -- It took me about 15 minutes to track down mp3's of the Moxy Fruvous indie tape. It took me several months to find the original tape those came off of, and when I did, it was an expensive, used tape, not an unsealed nor the super-rare cd.
space-savings -- It's true, if I put my 500 cd collection to mp3, it would fit nicely on a couple large hard drives.
why cd is better than mp3:
jewel boxes -- I like to see and feel the artwork, to read the original lyric sheets and actually hold the original case in my hands. Some CDs offer nothing in this manner, but some cd's have carefully chosen artwork, and even paper stock along with subtle things like unlisted alternate titles in the lyric sheets (check Smashing Pumpkins -- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness for an easy-to-obtain album that has all of these things)
sound quality -- Nobody will ever convince me that mp3's are cd-quality, because if I A/B them it's not just possible to tell which is CD or DAT and which is mp3, it's downright easy, it can be done within the first 5 seconds usually, and that's using computer speakers. On a professional or high-end consumer sound system the difference is immediately apparent and to anyone who has invested serious money in their equipment, it's also immediately annoying. Who wants to playback mp3s on a system that they've dropped tens of thousands or even just thousands of dollars on?
collectibility -- the article hammered this one, but it's true. I own quite a few cd rarities, most of which I acquired before they were rare. Which is more interesting, a person's reaction when they turn to their favorite group and see all sorts of Imports, EPs, singles and concert recordings that they've never heard before, or if they do a cd
Just my thoughts.
If you ever want some proof A/B a DVD disc from a good DVD player and the same disc on the same good television (sony xbr or equivalent to be sure it's OBVIOUS, not just visible) on a DivX player and you can easily tell which you're watching through
evil dead 2 and army of darkness (evil dead 3). That's a series that got better and better every time they made another movie.
www.netcraft.com, toss in www.hotmail.com.... the result is
www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD
I have the opposite situation so I'd imagine it evens out. Theoretically I own 5 copies of various Win98/NT. I use one. I theoretically own one copy of Linux, I use 4. I'd imagine that the more professional Linux usage counts would take these types of statistics into account and correct for it both ways.
I have DirecTV + USSB over here with no complaints. Good sound feed, great video quality, and so far no interruptions due to weather (eastern pennsylvania location). The only problem is the networks, I still have to get ABC/CBS/NBC/Fox through an antenna due to the fact that I live in a service area. If you can get a waiver from your local stations or live X miles away from an antenna (not sure of the value of X), you can get those channels though. By default they show up in the guide and just don't work though. As for cost, It's reasonable if you don't go too nuts with the premium channels. My bill averages a little over $100 a month, but that's because I get quite literally EVERYTHING but the adult stations from both providers and that also includes the "rentals" from PPV at three bucks a whack.