Yes. It does not work in Vista. On one screen in the wizard you have to put in just 192.168.1.101 and on another page you have to switch from raw to LPD using a radio button and then in the printer name box you have to enter lp1. It took me several hours to figure that out. Even if they dropped a hint such using "Port Name" instead of "Printer Name" would have gotten me there much quicker.
They don't call it IPP because it isn't.
IPP is plastered all over the print server as one of the many protocols provided. It also supports Netware and Appletalk.
Maybe Microsoft is just providing Network Printing and the Print Server simply accepts the job. I do know that it does work well over the Internet for the non-Vista machines. I haven't tried it over the Internet with the Vista laptop. Maybe the next time the wife is out at at coffee shop, I'll have her send a job home. (I know I have to use the WAN address for this but I'm not posting my IP for the print server for obvious reasons. I don't need the Slashdot community trying to see if they can print to my printer.)
If they are lying to the customers, that is bad. But I would imagine most people do not know how to make a recovery CD, painfully easy as it may be.
If they can't follow the prompts on the welcome screen, they are going to have an almost impossible time if they are considering to networking with any older SMB share with a password or connecting with any printer using the IPP protocol.
I remember when it was commonplace to get a recovery disc along with your computer; now you have to pay (quite a bit) for software that's already on your system. What happened?
What has changed is they went from providing install disks (DOS and Windows 3.1) to Hard Driver image disks (Windows 98 SE and newer, to no recovery disks but a hidden recovery partition. Then the reliability of the hard drives bombed so the warrenties went from 3 years to 1 year for most hard drives. This made the recovery partition a poor choice as the recovery software died with the hard drive. The fear of providing an install disk is it might be used on other hardware. The solution is to let the user create a "recovery DVD or CD set that is tied tightly to the hardware. For the store technicians, burning a recovery disk from a server with images of the recovery disks is easy money and eliminates the huge amount of time an end user needs to make a DVD or CD. The dirty secret (with HP laptops anyway) is the ISO does not exist on the hard drive. You have to wait for it to be assembled and divided for DVD or CD burning. This pre-burn process takes quite a while and requires a couple user inputs so the process is more than stuff in a disk and hit GO.
What the article is stating is the retailers are charging to make these recovery DVD or CD images that you could have done for yourself for free.
I ran into this new form of backup/recovery with my wife's new HP/Vista laptop. We bought it at Costco so we didn't run into the pushy salesmen issue. The $150 off coupon was a nice bonus on top of the wholesale club price.
They can make using their products downright miserable
Tell me about it.
My wife bought a new Vista laptop for her Masters classes. A simple request was to transfer some files and documents to and from our network SMB fileserver (A stand alone product).
They changed the default authentication protocol. It can't log in to any server using a password unless you either upgrade the server or downgrade Vists (not recommended by Microsoft) The server is an embedded Linux appliance (SimpleTech SimpleShare NAS).
The next simple task was to connect to my LAN printers. They hang on the LAN using the well established IPP interface with an address of IPP://192.168.1.101/lp1 and IPP://192.168.1.102/lp1. It took 4 hours and lots of Google searches to find out how to enter a non-IIS printserver address into Vista.
To make it easy, you leave off the IPP:// and put in the IP address and leave off the/lp1. On another page, you change from raw to LPT and put in the port name of lp1. Simple but not intuitive. To make matters even easier, noplace in Vista does it refer to it as Internet Printing Protocol. They just call it Network Printing. Very intuitive and user friendly.
Ubunto was much simpler to connect to these Windows printers. (an HP laserjet and HP inkjet) on garden variety stand alone hardware Print servers using IPP. (Hawking Technology Print servers)
Why would Microsoft make it much harder on Vista Home to connect to a home network and printers? It makes no sense to me.
It's almost like they designed it to be easier to use Ubuntu at home. It is much easier to use Ubuntu at home than Vista. Vista kept interrupting for a Java Update, Sound system Update, AV update and reregistration, and a few other things got in the way of setting up LAN settings and configuring 2 printers. Ubuntu was much better in that also. A single small notification popped up letting me know there were updates available. The small notification did not cover my applications in Ubuntu or force a reboot to close the notification.
strangely, the way I see the law, the judge is right on this. just because it is volatile, does not mean it is any less incriminating.
The way I see it is it is entirely impractical. Take for example the Judge's Cell Phone or Fax Machine. Both buffer and convert digital to analog and analog to digital. Care to impliment a way to permanantly capture and record all data transversing the RAM in these devices. Capturing the transient data in a server memory is equaly burdensome and useless.
If you want tetrabytes of useless data, capture all the data in just my video card memory while I play a round of Unreal. Re-constituting that data into anything useful is an exersise in futility. Same applies to random data in a server's RAM. Sifting incriminating evidence from a stream of server RAM without the CPU pointers for all the reads, writes, terminal, NIC, DMA, interrupts, and predictive branching makes a useless heap of data to sift. What data belongs to what user?, process? port? Add in some virtual environments, SSL, and more and the data heap gets big fast. What app points to what string? Who owns what app, process, or data? Good luck.
Snore. Let's see the actual numbers that include direct order.
As long as you are trying to find the growth of installed platforms, consider the fact that Ubuntu sales figures just don't register. A lot of older hardware is being converted and not counted.
If you are just counting at my house, count a PIII system as dual boot with Windows 98SE, a Pentium 4 system, an old Thinkpad T21, and my new dual core desktop are all running Ubuntu and not counted in sales figures.
Make sure the system responds with an error message that explains all this if you try to login as one of the protected accounts...that to login you have to reboot the server.
Tell the judge that that is as easy to retain as making the memory of his fax machine a permanent record. Please keep permanent records of your fax machine memory. It is of course a permanent record just like any other RAM in a running process.
When he gets in touch with his IT guys and gets laughed out of the room he may have a clue.
Make sure the system responds with an error message that explains all this if you try to login as one of the protected accounts...that to login you have to reboot the server.
It might be easer to explain to the judge that sound is a moving pressure wave stored in air for a very short time from the time he says something to the time someone hears it. I need him to preserve the sound waves in his house from yesterday for permanent record. It may contain evidence of a copyright violation.
I've got a better solution, comprised from best practice security and PXE [wikipedia.org].
As far as I can tell, PXE has a new revision. It has the trademark VPro. I looked at the PXE link you provided. It credits Intel. Vpro is from the same company. VPro has a black mark on Slashdot simply because someone called it Trusted Computing.
Trusted computing on the other hand is defined by a chip that stores a security hash. Trusted Computing is more of a secure DRM platform than it is remote management. This requires a DRM software application to use the hardware. It has nothing to do with remote management other than if the crypto key doesn't match, then your copied media file won't play.
As a home user you maybe right. This is not aimed at the home user. Have you seen the demo? This platform has an IT departments dream, a firmware OS wrapped around the end user's OS. In the demo, they demonstrated live the corruption of Windows which crashed it to BSOD. Remotely they patched Windows and rebooted it all while Windows was crashed.
A powered off machine needing a scheduled backup or critical software rollout is no problem. The machine can be remotely turned on, patched, rebooted, configured, and tested without disturbing users while they are home.
As an end user, it means installing Party Poker or Tor on the corporate machine may result in immediate application removal. The same goes for SONY rootkits and keystroke loggers. So yes for the end user, they have less ability to hose the configuration.
This is bad and the RIAA and MPAA is on the other end. This is good if your company supplied PC refuses malware. For its corporate target, this provides strong immunity to a BSA, RIAA, MPAA, etc, audit. Unauthorised stuff can't be stuck on the machine.
Doesn't this rip a hole in the time-space continuum or something?
Nope, but the fact they are streaming Beatles songs is an indicator they are using the local copyright laws and not going along with international copyright law which would block Beatles songs until they were officially released for internet distribution.
with the music frequently pausing during the stream.
This is the problem with the internet bottleneck. There is lots of complaints that BitTorrent is sucking all the bandwidth. A file downloaded can and often is played many times. Think of the internet meltdown if you switched all the BitTorrent downloaders to 100% streaming instead.
To fit the bandwidth now requires very high lossy streaming formats or a serious boost in bandwidth.
Welcome back to the days of Buffering............Buffering...........Buffering ..........Buffering........
How did you lock the key in your Prius? I can't lock my key in mine - the doors unlock when I close them with the key in it.
Leave the engine running, get out and use a second key to manually lock the doors from the outside. The remote key fob is inop when the ignition is on. (Not sure if this works on the newer models but works fine with mine.)
Absolutely. I have had this hardware for only a month and I don't have all the toys installed yet. I just built the Core 2 Duo box and tossed Feisty on it last month. Give me time to finish configuration. Priority is first getting DVD Author to work to burn captured VHS tapes to DVD.
The Tigerdirect link is also a TV tuner card. You can record more than just the radio.
I have one in my Ubuntu box. It's kind of a pain to tune with the command line, but it works well. As an added bonus, it ignores Macrovision for converting your old VHS tapes. (oops is saying that a DMCA violation?)
I don't get it. Think about it. 25 years ago printer ribbons were not expensive compared to ink cartridges. To control costs, I choose what I print with. An older laser printer is much cheaper (better value) than an inkjet. Printer supplies used for printing some Ubuntu documentation is part of the entertainment budget. I just bought a Fuser for my Laserjet III. A toner cartridge to print 7,000 pages is about the same price as a black ink cartridge good for 750 pages. It cost less than a color cartridge for a HP 950 printer. It cost less than the price of 4 music CD's and is of much higher value.
Don't feel sorry for me. I have the ability to reward those who provide value and not reward those who provide little value. I look for value and quality.
See... here's the thing. If they can monitor his traffic from the upstream,
It is possible the only thing they get from the ISP is a log of Time, Port, Mac Address just like the RIAA demands from an ISP when they capture an IP address offering files and want the subscriber information.
With that in hand they can verify if he defeated the monitoring software which would capture VPN, Encrypted Email, website logins, and other incriminating evidence. Go online from a borrowed PC and have the ISP log not match the monitor log = busted. It is unlikely the ISP captures the actual traffic, but does log traffic times and IP addresses of sites visited. Visiting The Pirate Bay and it not showing in the local monitor would be a conditions violation.
We have ISP logs you visited, but we didn't capture what you did there..
His only hope is an unsecured wireless next door and a live CD.
To work around keyloggers, he could enter his password using character map, or store passwords in a text file on a thumb drive and cut and paste.
This appears to be not a key logger but an Internet traffic monitor. As such, it may be able to capture anything of intrest such as logging into email regardless of whatever you did to defeat a key logger. Booting a live CD and not loading anything from the hard drive will work against this mandatory software. The risk is if he got busted for being online and the log doesn't compare with an upstream log.
More needs to be known about the mandatory software.
With luck the ISP will protect his records. If ISP shares the list of traffic times, IP address, MAC address and such and it doesn't jive with the report from the mandatory software, then he is screwed.
His best bet is to use the mandatory software and not log into any personal accounts of any kind to prevent disclosure. I wouldn't even use any old passwords/username for the windows install. It would all be new for the monitor to protect any accounts existing they may be trying to access.
It's time for a new gmail account with a username like FBImonitored@gmail.com
He could probably get away with VMWare or the like running Linux under Windows, but that would just run the risk of landing him in jail.
A live CD also works wonders, but without the hard evidence of virtualization. Again, if they had a way to monitor his traffic from the upstream, it would be bad. If they rely on the monitoring software as the only monitor, than use a live CD for checking e-mail and other places where you don't want to compromise your online passwords. Monitoring online activity is one thing. Harvesting his login info for his online accounts is another. That over-reaches monitoring online activity and opens doors to stuff beyond the current monitoring.
I I had mandatory online monitoring, I would not log in to any online account. I would not accidentally give that info to them.
Even though it was completely anecdotal ("yeah these cars are great") I was impressed.. those taxi drivers drive the isht out of those poor cars. I don't think my own car (Accord) would stand up to that kind of driving long (clutch, tranny, brakes.. etc would all be suspect very quickly).
Stop and go driving is the car's good point. Many quickly point out heavy stop and go may reduce the mileage to 20, but compared to the standing the taxis do on a regular basis, that is excellent. Sitting with the engine running results in 0 MPG in traditional cars and hybrids. The difference is in a traditional car, the engine runs all the time unless the operator shuts it down and pays the starter wear penalty. The Prius with a long wait time is not running the engine over 80% of the time. It is not required by the EPA, but the fuel consumption rate at idle should be on the window sticker. Those fleeing Katrina and stuck in traffic often got less than 60 miles to the tank of gas.
Seattle did an experiment with Hybrid buses. They blew it and tried to save lots of money by putting them on the long haul express routes. Bad move. At expressway speeds and driving they don't do much better than their counterparts. They should have put them on the downtown routes and compared them in stop and go and stop and creep traffic. That is where they shine. Even when they shine in that type driving, the numbers are nothing to shout about. Stop and go driving kills economy even in a hybrid, but not nearly as bad. In some creep and stop traffic, I once got under 5 MPG for about 1 mile. It took almost 2 hours to make that mile.
I have put in inverter in my car (1,000 watt) and have used it to power things in power outages. I have literally locked a key in the car, shut off the lights, heater and anything else and let the car run an entire weekend running a fridge, small freezer, a couple CF lights, and a computer part time. Even though I left it idling an entire weekend, I still got 32 MPG on that tank of gas. I used less than a quarter tank. Not bad for a 12 gallon tank.
In that mode it typically runs for about 5 minutes and shuts down for almost a half hour then repeats the cycle.
A: anything 2 years old or newer: 0.99 per track, or a flat rate per album ($8?)
B: anything 2 to 10 years old: 0.25 per track, or $3 per album
C: anything older than 10 years: 0.10 per track or $1 per album
That will never happen. The reason is the same as for video games. If there is lots of lower priced product that's good enough, it will canalize the other sales. I mean if you just spent $12 on the best of the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon, and the Eagles, Would you bother to pick up the latest Nine Inch Nails CD?
They are far better off to sell you an Eagles CD for $12 like they do now. You have an empty i-Pod and an itch to fill it. They hope you either buy CDs or visit the i-Tunes store. They can't sell most of the stuff on i-Tunes for a buck a track if you can get it at a local record store for a buck an album.
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Did you try \\192.168.1.101\lp1?
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Yes. It does not work in Vista. On one screen in the wizard you have to put in just 192.168.1.101 and on another page you have to switch from raw to LPD using a radio button and then in the printer name box you have to enter lp1. It took me several hours to figure that out. Even if they dropped a hint such using "Port Name" instead of "Printer Name" would have gotten me there much quicker.
They don't call it IPP because it isn't.
IPP is plastered all over the print server as one of the many protocols provided. It also supports Netware and Appletalk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Pr
Maybe Microsoft is just providing Network Printing and the Print Server simply accepts the job.
I do know that it does work well over the Internet for the non-Vista machines. I haven't tried it over the Internet with the Vista laptop. Maybe the next time the wife is out at at coffee shop, I'll have her send a job home. (I know I have to use the WAN address for this but I'm not posting my IP for the print server for obvious reasons. I don't need the Slashdot community trying to see if they can print to my printer.)
If they are lying to the customers, that is bad. But I would imagine most people do not know how to make a recovery CD, painfully easy as it may be.
If they can't follow the prompts on the welcome screen, they are going to have an almost impossible time if they are considering to networking with any older SMB share with a password or connecting with any printer using the IPP protocol.
I remember when it was commonplace to get a recovery disc along with your computer; now you have to pay (quite a bit) for software that's already on your system. What happened?
What has changed is they went from providing install disks (DOS and Windows 3.1) to Hard Driver image disks (Windows 98 SE and newer, to no recovery disks but a hidden recovery partition. Then the reliability of the hard drives bombed so the warrenties went from 3 years to 1 year for most hard drives. This made the recovery partition a poor choice as the recovery software died with the hard drive. The fear of providing an install disk is it might be used on other hardware. The solution is to let the user create a "recovery DVD or CD set that is tied tightly to the hardware. For the store technicians, burning a recovery disk from a server with images of the recovery disks is easy money and eliminates the huge amount of time an end user needs to make a DVD or CD. The dirty secret (with HP laptops anyway) is the ISO does not exist on the hard drive. You have to wait for it to be assembled and divided for DVD or CD burning. This pre-burn process takes quite a while and requires a couple user inputs so the process is more than stuff in a disk and hit GO.
What the article is stating is the retailers are charging to make these recovery DVD or CD images that you could have done for yourself for free.
I ran into this new form of backup/recovery with my wife's new HP/Vista laptop. We bought it at Costco so we didn't run into the pushy salesmen issue. The $150 off coupon was a nice bonus on top of the wholesale club price.
They can make using their products downright miserable
/lp1. On another page, you change from raw to LPT and put in the port name of lp1. Simple but not intuitive. To make matters even easier, noplace in Vista does it refer to it as Internet Printing Protocol. They just call it Network Printing. Very intuitive and user friendly.
Tell me about it.
My wife bought a new Vista laptop for her Masters classes. A simple request was to transfer some files and documents to and from our network SMB fileserver (A stand alone product).
They changed the default authentication protocol. It can't log in to any server using a password unless you either upgrade the server or downgrade Vists (not recommended by Microsoft) The server is an embedded Linux appliance (SimpleTech SimpleShare NAS).
The next simple task was to connect to my LAN printers. They hang on the LAN using the well established IPP interface with an address of IPP://192.168.1.101/lp1 and IPP://192.168.1.102/lp1. It took 4 hours and lots of Google searches to find out how to enter a non-IIS printserver address into Vista.
To make it easy, you leave off the IPP:// and put in the IP address and leave off the
Ubunto was much simpler to connect to these Windows printers. (an HP laserjet and HP inkjet) on garden variety stand alone hardware Print servers using IPP. (Hawking Technology Print servers)
Why would Microsoft make it much harder on Vista Home to connect to a home network and printers? It makes no sense to me.
It's almost like they designed it to be easier to use Ubuntu at home. It is much easier to use Ubuntu at home than Vista. Vista kept interrupting for a Java Update, Sound system Update, AV update and reregistration, and a few other things got in the way of setting up LAN settings and configuring 2 printers. Ubuntu was much better in that also. A single small notification popped up letting me know there were updates available. The small notification did not cover my applications in Ubuntu or force a reboot to close the notification.
strangely, the way I see the law, the judge is right on this. just because it is volatile, does not mean it is any less incriminating.
The way I see it is it is entirely impractical. Take for example the Judge's Cell Phone or Fax Machine. Both buffer and convert digital to analog and analog to digital. Care to impliment a way to permanantly capture and record all data transversing the RAM in these devices. Capturing the transient data in a server memory is equaly burdensome and useless.
If you want tetrabytes of useless data, capture all the data in just my video card memory while I play a round of Unreal. Re-constituting that data into anything useful is an exersise in futility. Same applies to random data in a server's RAM. Sifting incriminating evidence from a stream of server RAM without the CPU pointers for all the reads, writes, terminal, NIC, DMA, interrupts, and predictive branching makes a useless heap of data to sift. What data belongs to what user?, process? port? Add in some virtual environments, SSL, and more and the data heap gets big fast. What app points to what string? Who owns what app, process, or data? Good luck.
Snore. Let's see the actual numbers that include direct order.
As long as you are trying to find the growth of installed platforms, consider the fact that Ubuntu sales figures just don't register. A lot of older hardware is being converted and not counted.
If you are just counting at my house, count a PIII system as dual boot with Windows 98SE, a Pentium 4 system, an old Thinkpad T21, and my new dual core desktop are all running Ubuntu and not counted in sales figures.
Make sure the system responds with an error message that explains all this if you try to login as one of the protected accounts...that to login you have to reboot the server.
Tell the judge that that is as easy to retain as making the memory of his fax machine a permanent record. Please keep permanent records of your fax machine memory. It is of course a permanent record just like any other RAM in a running process.
When he gets in touch with his IT guys and gets laughed out of the room he may have a clue.
Make sure the system responds with an error message that explains all this if you try to login as one of the protected accounts...that to login you have to reboot the server.
It might be easer to explain to the judge that sound is a moving pressure wave stored in air for a very short time from the time he says something to the time someone hears it. I need him to preserve the sound waves in his house from yesterday for permanent record. It may contain evidence of a copyright violation.
I've got a better solution, comprised from best practice security and PXE [wikipedia.org].
As far as I can tell, PXE has a new revision. It has the trademark VPro. I looked at the PXE link you provided. It credits Intel. Vpro is from the same company. VPro has a black mark on Slashdot simply because someone called it Trusted Computing.
Trusted computing on the other hand is defined by a chip that stores a security hash. Trusted Computing is more of a secure DRM platform than it is remote management. This requires a DRM software application to use the hardware. It has nothing to do with remote management other than if the crypto key doesn't match, then your copied media file won't play.
Do not want!
+ demo
As a home user you maybe right. This is not aimed at the home user. Have you seen the demo? This platform has an IT departments dream, a firmware OS wrapped around the end user's OS. In the demo, they demonstrated live the corruption of Windows which crashed it to BSOD. Remotely they patched Windows and rebooted it all while Windows was crashed.
A powered off machine needing a scheduled backup or critical software rollout is no problem. The machine can be remotely turned on, patched, rebooted, configured, and tested without disturbing users while they are home.
Demos are here.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Intel+V-Pro
As an end user, it means installing Party Poker or Tor on the corporate machine may result in immediate application removal. The same goes for SONY rootkits and keystroke loggers. So yes for the end user, they have less ability to hose the configuration.
This is bad and the RIAA and MPAA is on the other end. This is good if your company supplied PC refuses malware. For its corporate target, this provides strong immunity to a BSA, RIAA, MPAA, etc, audit. Unauthorised stuff can't be stuck on the machine.
Yes, it is a rootkit. It's modifying the kernel space to hide directories from the user.
Has anybody tried one of these in a Ubuntu or other Linux machine? Do the hidden files show?
Doesn't this rip a hole in the time-space continuum or something?
Nope, but the fact they are streaming Beatles songs is an indicator they are using the local copyright laws and not going along with international copyright law which would block Beatles songs until they were officially released for internet distribution.
This whole concept of authentication and WGA is flawed.
For the Slashdoters who feel left out, the Linux Genuine Advantage site is still up.
http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/
with the music frequently pausing during the stream.
g ..........Buffering........
This is the problem with the internet bottleneck. There is lots of complaints that BitTorrent is sucking all the bandwidth. A file downloaded can and often is played many times. Think of the internet meltdown if you switched all the BitTorrent downloaders to 100% streaming instead.
To fit the bandwidth now requires very high lossy streaming formats or a serious boost in bandwidth.
Welcome back to the days of Buffering............Buffering...........Bufferin
How did you lock the key in your Prius? I can't lock my key in mine - the doors unlock when I close them with the key in it.
Leave the engine running, get out and use a second key to manually lock the doors from the outside. The remote key fob is inop when the ignition is on. (Not sure if this works on the newer models but works fine with mine.)
And if you really are entertained by printer supplies,
I am into photography. Printer supplies is an expense of the hobby and does fall into the entertainment budget as this is not a professional activity.
May I suggest MythTV?
Absolutely. I have had this hardware for only a month and I don't have all the toys installed yet. I just built the Core 2 Duo box and tossed Feisty on it last month. Give me time to finish configuration. Priority is first getting DVD Author to work to burn captured VHS tapes to DVD.
Wait a minute... what if that seemingly unsecured wireless point was set up by the Feds? It's a trap!!!
It could have been anybody. It is deniable.
FM Radio cards:
l s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2905632&CatId=1425
l e/
http://www.cel-soft.com/RadioCard.htm
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchToo
USB radio:
http://www.engadget.com/2004/07/13/usb-radio-dong
http://www.redferret.net/?p=7760
The Tigerdirect link is also a TV tuner card. You can record more than just the radio.
I have one in my Ubuntu box. It's kind of a pain to tune with the command line, but it works well. As an added bonus, it ignores Macrovision for converting your old VHS tapes. (oops is saying that a DMCA violation?)
Am I being dense?
;-)
I feel sorry for you, man.
I don't get it. Think about it. 25 years ago printer ribbons were not expensive compared to ink cartridges. To control costs, I choose what I print with. An older laser printer is much cheaper (better value) than an inkjet. Printer supplies used for printing some Ubuntu documentation is part of the entertainment budget. I just bought a Fuser for my Laserjet III. A toner cartridge to print 7,000 pages is about the same price as a black ink cartridge good for 750 pages. It cost less than a color cartridge for a HP 950 printer. It cost less than the price of 4 music CD's and is of much higher value.
Don't feel sorry for me. I have the ability to reward those who provide value and not reward those who provide little value. I look for value and quality.
See... here's the thing. If they can monitor his traffic from the upstream,
It is possible the only thing they get from the ISP is a log of Time, Port, Mac Address just like the RIAA demands from an ISP when they capture an IP address offering files and want the subscriber information.
With that in hand they can verify if he defeated the monitoring software which would capture VPN, Encrypted Email, website logins, and other incriminating evidence. Go online from a borrowed PC and have the ISP log not match the monitor log = busted. It is unlikely the ISP captures the actual traffic, but does log traffic times and IP addresses of sites visited. Visiting The Pirate Bay and it not showing in the local monitor would be a conditions violation.
We have ISP logs you visited, but we didn't capture what you did there..
His only hope is an unsecured wireless next door and a live CD.
To work around keyloggers, he could enter his password using character map, or store passwords in a text file on a thumb drive and cut and paste.
This appears to be not a key logger but an Internet traffic monitor. As such, it may be able to capture anything of intrest such as logging into email regardless of whatever you did to defeat a key logger. Booting a live CD and not loading anything from the hard drive will work against this mandatory software. The risk is if he got busted for being online and the log doesn't compare with an upstream log.
More needs to be known about the mandatory software.
With luck the ISP will protect his records. If ISP shares the list of traffic times, IP address, MAC address and such and it doesn't jive with the report from the mandatory software, then he is screwed.
His best bet is to use the mandatory software and not log into any personal accounts of any kind to prevent disclosure. I wouldn't even use any old passwords/username for the windows install. It would all be new for the monitor to protect any accounts existing they may be trying to access.
It's time for a new gmail account with a username like FBImonitored@gmail.com
He could probably get away with VMWare or the like running Linux under Windows, but that would just run the risk of landing him in jail.
A live CD also works wonders, but without the hard evidence of virtualization. Again, if they had a way to monitor his traffic from the upstream, it would be bad. If they rely on the monitoring software as the only monitor, than use a live CD for checking e-mail and other places where you don't want to compromise your online passwords. Monitoring online activity is one thing. Harvesting his login info for his online accounts is another. That over-reaches monitoring online activity and opens doors to stuff beyond the current monitoring.
I I had mandatory online monitoring, I would not log in to any online account. I would not accidentally give that info to them.
Even though it was completely anecdotal ("yeah these cars are great") I was impressed.. those taxi drivers drive the isht out of those poor cars. I don't think my own car (Accord) would stand up to that kind of driving long (clutch, tranny, brakes.. etc would all be suspect very quickly).
Stop and go driving is the car's good point. Many quickly point out heavy stop and go may reduce the mileage to 20, but compared to the standing the taxis do on a regular basis, that is excellent. Sitting with the engine running results in 0 MPG in traditional cars and hybrids. The difference is in a traditional car, the engine runs all the time unless the operator shuts it down and pays the starter wear penalty. The Prius with a long wait time is not running the engine over 80% of the time. It is not required by the EPA, but the fuel consumption rate at idle should be on the window sticker. Those fleeing Katrina and stuck in traffic often got less than 60 miles to the tank of gas.
Seattle did an experiment with Hybrid buses. They blew it and tried to save lots of money by putting them on the long haul express routes. Bad move. At expressway speeds and driving they don't do much better than their counterparts. They should have put them on the downtown routes and compared them in stop and go and stop and creep traffic. That is where they shine. Even when they shine in that type driving, the numbers are nothing to shout about. Stop and go driving kills economy even in a hybrid, but not nearly as bad. In some creep and stop traffic, I once got under 5 MPG for about 1 mile. It took almost 2 hours to make that mile.
I have put in inverter in my car (1,000 watt) and have used it to power things in power outages. I have literally locked a key in the car, shut off the lights, heater and anything else and let the car run an entire weekend running a fridge, small freezer, a couple CF lights, and a computer part time. Even though I left it idling an entire weekend, I still got 32 MPG on that tank of gas. I used less than a quarter tank. Not bad for a 12 gallon tank.
In that mode it typically runs for about 5 minutes and shuts down for almost a half hour then repeats the cycle.
A: anything 2 years old or newer: 0.99 per track, or a flat rate per album ($8?)
B: anything 2 to 10 years old: 0.25 per track, or $3 per album
C: anything older than 10 years: 0.10 per track or $1 per album
That will never happen. The reason is the same as for video games. If there is lots of lower priced product that's good enough, it will canalize the other sales. I mean if you just spent $12 on the best of the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon, and the Eagles, Would you bother to pick up the latest Nine Inch Nails CD?
They are far better off to sell you an Eagles CD for $12 like they do now. You have an empty i-Pod and an itch to fill it. They hope you either buy CDs or visit the i-Tunes store. They can't sell most of the stuff on i-Tunes for a buck a track if you can get it at a local record store for a buck an album.