Cool. What do you use? What does it run on (hardware/os)? Like it? Used it long? Any other helpful hints?
I use a Simple Share by Simple Tech. They have several flavors from 160, 250, & 400 Gig. If you look online you can find info on changing the HD to something you like. It can also use external USB drives in addition to the internal one.
Cavit.. Watch the firmware version. They are flashable, but the newer versions of firmware have dropped the partitioning and encrypted partition features. Check online for the features you want and flash the drive to the version you wish. Remember, the new versions have dropped the encrypted partition support.
Another note. Avoid the 160 Gig model. It has a 1 year warranty while the others have a 3 year warranty. If it is not in a secure location, they have a place for a laptop lock.
I love the partition that becomes a brick if the unit is "borrowed". I keep my banking, tax, password lists and other sensitive information there. Someone may take the drive, but not the personal info.
I just use a external drive formatted in EXT3, and for windows files i just install the Ext3 driver.
I use an external NAS. It uses an encrypted Reiser filesystem. The NAS takes care of offering to the network NFS or SMB shares. In an outage, the shares unmount and require the encryption key to remount. This provides protection in case of theft of the drive. Per share I can provide either NFS and/or SMB services so it plays nice to Windows, Linux, and Mac. Putting stuff on it is as easy as posting on Slashdot except the whoa cowboy error messages.
Just get a USB card punch and reader. I think 029 punch code is pretty much standard.
Sid, Is that you?
Refrence; Userfriendly.org Jan 07 2002
"hief, Smiling Man, Sid - Chief: This quibbling about who the decision-maker is stops now. Do you two have any idea how power struggles invariably end?
ZZZZOOOOOWWWW
Darkeness
Chief: So did you not do the finance guy thing this week and neglect to pay electricity bill?
Smiling Man: Look, I can't get that stupid punchcard reader to work!
Sid: All you gotta do is ask man. That, and kneel."
There are two kinds of battery life that needs work. One is related to range.. The 8 mile or 250 mile debate. Often overlooked is the battery life in charge discharge cycles. The only reason the Prius doesn't have a dead battery every 1-2 years like a laptop battery or cell phone or business 2 way radio is because they don't deep cycle them in normal use. A Prius seldom has a battery under 50% or over 80% charged.
Heat, deep discharges, cell reversal, and overcharging is hard on batteries. The long range drivers do the worst.. Top the batteries off to get maximum range, run them till they go no more and repeat. Plan on buying new batteries every few years just like you do for your digital camera, MP3 player, cell phone, laptop, and other devices that get deep cycles often.
I think the Toyota 8 mile range is to extend the battery life to 10+ years. It is not for maximum driving range at a high cost.
However, if Pepsi went to a major grocery chain and said, "even though you've already given us money and purchased product from us, we're going to refuse to actually give you that Pepsi product unless you refuse to carry Coke products."
Intel's crime is demanding that retailers not carry AMD, or they will hold off on shipping product that you've paid for.
Is this any more of a crime than Coke VS Pepsi? Many fast food places carry only Coke or Pepsi products just like many retailers cary only AMD or Intel for the same reason. MS is still getting away with it. Go anyplace manufacturing MS PC's and try to either get a naked PC or one with another OS on it.
Only recently are there some manufactures crossing the bridge and paying a higher price because they refused to update the system manufacture lisence for MS only. This is nothing new. Only those with lots of weight carry Coke and Pepsi such as AM/PM and 7-11. Burger King isn't big enough yet to offer both products.
Oh, and AMD isn't currently up on antitrust charges right now.
I like your wording.. Like they are clean as a whistle. They are the ones suing. They are the ones dumping on the market even though their cost to produce is higher. Isn't that illegal? Nobody pressed charges simply because econnomic forces will end the price war as AMD runs out of money to sell below cost to capture market share.
Intel as the economy of scale. They can and do sell at a profit at prices compeditors are unable to match as they have the hottest chips at the moment, have manufacturing capacity and effeciency to keep costs down. Part of Intel's winning the market is low defect counts so they have to throw away very little dead product. AMD went into the red with their under-pricing market dumping and cried foul.
Intel is not dumping on the market at a loss to make up market share. They didn't do it when AMD had the leading products against the Pentium 4 line.
Again, AMD does not have a clean shop in this Intel Anti-trust suit. Next time label it properly.
You do not get sunburns from visible light - you get it from ultraviolet radiation.
Good point. Think wideband instead of narrowband. Visable light is what, 1/3 octave? I should have included near IR, far IR, and short and longwave UV.
When he drove me back to the transmitter I asked him to come in and take a look. "See that big switch there. It's the main power. It's turned off."
I have a ham radio operator friend that needed to put up a tower in a new location and was warned the locals were not going to be easy to deal with.
He put up the tower and antennas and collected complaints of interferance from his tower including voices from the toaster. He collected the complaints and filed them with the letter from the FCC under existing backgound conditions. After that he took delayed shipment of his shack equipment after holding an open house of the facility to settle any and all complaints. He wrote everyone who complained to the event. He held the meeting in the ham shack. In the corner was the box of hardline coax not yet installed up the tower.
The obvious way to conduct such a study would be to correlate the incidence of illness with the proximity to radio sources.
I agree 100%. The difficulty is always background environmental pollution contaminating your test results. Think about it. Let's pretend the signal from the cell tower instead of an invisable radio wave is instead a visable light. If it is too strong the subject gets a sunburn from it or worse 2nd and 3rd degree burns depending on exposure (much like sunlight or exposure to a welding arc).
Now remember that a tower is a 2 way communications device. Not only is there a little light from the tower that can be seen far and wide.. There are lots of other fires in the proximity sending signals to the tower. People stick these intense radiation sources right up against their bodies while glowing brightly. They also share same spaces with other users of the devices such as on the sidewalk, in cars, on busses, in offices.
Now you wind up with a mild sunburn all over and a bad burn on the side of your face.. How much is realy from the glow on the tower?
Get real people. Near field radio signal strength is a measurable field. Also note that the signal from a cell tower isn't like a street light sending brightness to the ground directly below it. It's built like a lighthouse sending a beam of signal horizontaly. Some spills to the ground near the tower just the same as you can see a lighthouse while standing near the lighthouse. The main intensity is sent for distance. That's what all the dBi numbers are all about in antenna gain. It's the same amount of power. It's that more of it is sent off the side instead of up and down in all directions.
Many of these cell tower studies do not include time and peak weighted studies of tower field strength verses phone users field strength.
How much RF effects is from your phone and not the tower?
I'd rather disembowel myself with a corkscrew than run Gnome or buy an Intel processor, thank you.
Some poeple still swear by their Commodore 64... AMD is so last year.. If you don't like Gnome, there is Kubuntu. Unlike the Windows desktop, you have a choice.
I finaly let go my 286 and Windows 3.1. Try Ubuntu on a Core 2 Duo. You will like it.
On a more realistic note. I still have a P III system running Windows 98 because it runs my GPS map software, has real serial ports for the GPS, and runs the piano tutor sofware using the MPU-401 port. When it's drive dies, it will be time to shop for a machine with the required hardware.
Besides your weekly/monthly spin up tests of your generators should tell you if you have a flat battery.
Most people don't pay attention, it either starts or it doesn't. Slower cranking is generaly not noticed unless it is extreme. Sometimes (I've seen it) the level in wet batteries is not properly monitored. On cranking, the hydrogen ignited resulting in sudden failure. Most people have no idea what the battery voltage is during cranking. How much is too low?
The flywheel can deliver 11 seconds of power so they can fail through a couple of bad engines before running out of flywheel power.
True, but it's undersize. The generators is a couple megawatts X10. The single rotary CPS size isn't specified, but from the manufactures site they list several sizes of units all under 1.5 MW. Most of the datacenter is NOT on critical power. From the size, it certanly isn't taking the support HVAC load. Since power was off for a couple hours and they didn't start generators for about 45 minutes, I'm sure any battery UPS'es died. Most racks overheat if powered up without cooling in under 15 minutes.
You forgot one very important component, the car battery used to START THE GENERATOR. I've been to many sites whereby the battery that would start the generator is a) dead or b) missing.
In many places the battery is not trusted so they use compressed air. It's easier to notice an air supply problem than a failing battery problem.
You mean that all 3 x 20,000 gallon tanks were empty? I find that hard to believe.
Look at the sheet again.. Thanks for the nice PDF by the way..
They have 10 Generators which is designed to carry the load at N+1. They have only one rotary no-break Critical Power System with one Generator. Just how much of the datacenter is not on critical power? Do the math. A CPS set is generaly sized smaller than any one of the generators. It carries essential emergency lighting, telcom, some "Critical servers" and little else. The rest of the site dumped with the outage after the little 10-20 minute UPS'es died. They waited 45 minutes before starting generators.
Speaking of generators, if they upgraded servers (rack out, blade server in...) they could easly exceed the original design of N+1 on the generators.
When shopping for a hosted datacenter, find out how much of the load is on "Critical Power". You may be dependant on battery UPS while waiting for the generators.
Of course one of those sites failed high up in a mountain range in a mid-winter storm (Tieton, 1978) when the commercial power failed, and the starter battery for the diesel froze.
On Black Bute in Oregon, a communications site went out in the middle of winter following a power outage. The generator ran a short while and shut down because it overheated. The air intake 20 feet in the air was covered in snow.
They probably just didn't kick in. Had the same problem at Internap in Seattle a few years ago.
Many datacenters didn't expect the growth they experianced. As a result, many UPS and generator sets are undersize or the entire load is not onboard. In some cases, the critical serviers are up to post the we are down page, but the HVAC system and main floor are down. What good is having a datacenter up if the building AC is down? Sometimes you are forced to shut down simply because the support AC is down and not on critical power. You can ride out a 20 minute outage without AC, but after an hour, it's at critical tempratures.
If you don't like the Cox DNS results, feel free to put another DNS server in your router or computer. Switch from dynamic DNS to static DNS and use some of the public DNS servers.
This is just another attack on the free software community as outlined in the Haloween Documents.
Actualy they only modified their own DNS server. This is not breaking the Ineternet. This is breaking Cox/Time Warner walled garden ISP DNS.
If you don't like the faulty DNS, feel free to change to one of the other public DNS servers such as the public Verison DNS Server at 4.2.2.1. You don't have to use your ISP's DNS server. Go into your router setup and switch from dynamic DNS to Static and plug in 2 or 3 public DNS servers and you are back to real DNS results.
Great plan genius- now we have to find someone who bought Vista!:)
Never trust a compromised box to tell the truth. Wake me when he has router logs instead of Vista logs or worse XP logs of a Vista monitor. Many routers will send connection logs to a 3rd machine. This way you don't have to trust the machine under test. Simply log it's traffic as it passes an external router. Now you have evidence of real traffic.
I was skeptical of the original setup. Was it Vista. The author claimed "idle" while running remote desktop software. That's hardly idle to me. What if it isn't Vista, but something like a back door into some communications package such as remote desktop?
The Department of Homeland Security may have in intrest in remote connections, especialy if they cross into hostile territories. Someting could have flagged this connection as something they wanted to watch for some reason. Maybe it's the connections to all the overseas.edu's. Many of the people being watched are on educational visa's. Having ties to some of these schools may be a red flag. It's not Vista, but the remote software that may be to blame. Having active connections to schools in several contries may have raised intrest. See the logs in the screenshots.
On a related note, I also asked Stallman what he thought of the wedding photography industry. For those of you who don't know, typical wedding photographers cost over a thousand dollars, show up at your wedding to take pictures, and then make you pay through the nose for prints.
Photographers will follow the money if nessary. If they advertise and get enough business, then they have no reason to change. If the money becomes educated and job hires a photographer with a contract for copyright including posting online for far away friends, putting into a slideshow on DVD for gifts, etc, then you will find photographers. The cost of advertising is shifted. Now you have to take bids and view potential canidates portfolios. This shift has started. As it becomes more popular, the traditional photographers will lose business to the new requirements. The shift is slow because of the entrenched model, but just like the Record industry, the shift will take time with lots of screaming and complaining in the meantime. Look for photographers lawsuits for wedding albums scanned and placed online for distant relatives. Then watch the public opinion and education to kick in.
Free software hasn't replaced closed software yet. Open document standards hasn't replaced closed formats yet. It is unavoidable the movement has started and isn't going to reverse anytime soon. Even Microsoft who wouldn't touch an open document format with a 20 foot pole is learning to adopt or die. They have seen the handwriting on the wall. There is no other way. The photographers are not as much in the limelight, but the same movement is hitting them. More people are looking at their wedding photo contract with a critical eye. Many photographers are moving to middle ground to protect the big portion of their business expensive prints. The middle ground is many photographers now offer lower resolution (web friendly) photos as part of the package with permission to email, post, and put on DVD slideshows. The really nice prints are retained under the old model. This is much like what MS is doing. They accept ODF and make no bones it's the low resolution no features version, but also have this much nicer format you can also use, but to use it you need MS Office. Kerching!
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If you put them on down-hill stretches of roads, then the energy that is being collected is energy that was going to be lost as heat otherwise.
So your going to steal my kenetic energy from my Prius instead of letting me put my energy back into the battery? Grr. It's a tax on the effecient.
Cool. What do you use? What does it run on (hardware/os)? Like it? Used it long? Any other helpful hints?
I use a Simple Share by Simple Tech. They have several flavors from 160, 250, & 400 Gig. If you look online you can find info on changing the HD to something you like. It can also use external USB drives in addition to the internal one.
Cavit.. Watch the firmware version. They are flashable, but the newer versions of firmware have dropped the partitioning and encrypted partition features. Check online for the features you want and flash the drive to the version you wish. Remember, the new versions have dropped the encrypted partition support.
Another note. Avoid the 160 Gig model. It has a 1 year warranty while the others have a 3 year warranty. If it is not in a secure location, they have a place for a laptop lock.
I love the partition that becomes a brick if the unit is "borrowed". I keep my banking, tax, password lists and other sensitive information there. Someone may take the drive, but not the personal info.
http://www.simpletech.com/commercial/simpleshare/
I just use a external drive formatted in EXT3, and for windows files i just install the Ext3 driver.
I use an external NAS. It uses an encrypted Reiser filesystem. The NAS takes care of offering to the network NFS or SMB shares. In an outage, the shares unmount and require the encryption key to remount. This provides protection in case of theft of the drive. Per share I can provide either NFS and/or SMB services so it plays nice to Windows, Linux, and Mac. Putting stuff on it is as easy as posting on Slashdot except the whoa cowboy error messages.
Just get a USB card punch and reader. I think 029 punch code is pretty much standard.
Sid, Is that you?
Refrence; Userfriendly.org Jan 07 2002
"hief, Smiling Man, Sid
-
Chief: This quibbling about who the decision-maker is stops now. Do you two have any idea how power struggles invariably end?
ZZZZOOOOOWWWW
Darkeness
Chief: So did you not do the finance guy thing this week and neglect to pay electricity bill?
Smiling Man: Look, I can't get that stupid punchcard reader to work!
Sid: All you gotta do is ask man. That, and kneel."
There are two kinds of battery life that needs work. One is related to range.. The 8 mile or 250 mile debate. Often overlooked is the battery life in charge discharge cycles. The only reason the Prius doesn't have a dead battery every 1-2 years like a laptop battery or cell phone or business 2 way radio is because they don't deep cycle them in normal use. A Prius seldom has a battery under 50% or over 80% charged.
Heat, deep discharges, cell reversal, and overcharging is hard on batteries. The long range drivers do the worst.. Top the batteries off to get maximum range, run them till they go no more and repeat. Plan on buying new batteries every few years just like you do for your digital camera, MP3 player, cell phone, laptop, and other devices that get deep cycles often.
I think the Toyota 8 mile range is to extend the battery life to 10+ years. It is not for maximum driving range at a high cost.
However, if Pepsi went to a major grocery chain and said, "even though you've already given us money and purchased product from us, we're going to refuse to actually give you that Pepsi product unless you refuse to carry Coke products."
Oh, I didn't realise Coke owned Burger King.
Intel's crime is demanding that retailers not carry AMD, or they will hold off on shipping product that you've paid for.
Is this any more of a crime than Coke VS Pepsi? Many fast food places carry only Coke or Pepsi products just like many retailers cary only AMD or Intel for the same reason. MS is still getting away with it. Go anyplace manufacturing MS PC's and try to either get a naked PC or one with another OS on it.
Only recently are there some manufactures crossing the bridge and paying a higher price because they refused to update the system manufacture lisence for MS only. This is nothing new. Only those with lots of weight carry Coke and Pepsi such as AM/PM and 7-11. Burger King isn't big enough yet to offer both products.
Oh, and AMD isn't currently up on antitrust charges right now.
I like your wording.. Like they are clean as a whistle. They are the ones suing. They are the ones dumping on the market even though their cost to produce is higher. Isn't that illegal? Nobody pressed charges simply because econnomic forces will end the price war as AMD runs out of money to sell below cost to capture market share.
Intel as the economy of scale. They can and do sell at a profit at prices compeditors are unable to match as they have the hottest chips at the moment, have manufacturing capacity and effeciency to keep costs down. Part of Intel's winning the market is low defect counts so they have to throw away very little dead product. AMD went into the red with their under-pricing market dumping and cried foul.
Intel is not dumping on the market at a loss to make up market share. They didn't do it when AMD had the leading products against the Pentium 4 line.
Again, AMD does not have a clean shop in this Intel Anti-trust suit. Next time label it properly.
AMD - Intel Anti-trust...
You do not get sunburns from visible light - you get it from ultraviolet radiation.
Good point. Think wideband instead of narrowband. Visable light is what, 1/3 octave? I should have included near IR, far IR, and short and longwave UV.
When he drove me back to the transmitter I asked him to come in and take a look. "See that big switch there. It's the main power. It's turned off."
I have a ham radio operator friend that needed to put up a tower in a new location and was warned the locals were not going to be easy to deal with.
He put up the tower and antennas and collected complaints of interferance from his tower including voices from the toaster. He collected the complaints and filed them with the letter from the FCC under existing backgound conditions. After that he took delayed shipment of his shack equipment after holding an open house of the facility to settle any and all complaints. He wrote everyone who complained to the event. He held the meeting in the ham shack. In the corner was the box of hardline coax not yet installed up the tower.
The obvious way to conduct such a study would be to correlate the incidence of illness with the proximity to radio sources.
I agree 100%. The difficulty is always background environmental pollution contaminating your test results. Think about it. Let's pretend the signal from the cell tower instead of an invisable radio wave is instead a visable light. If it is too strong the subject gets a sunburn from it or worse 2nd and 3rd degree burns depending on exposure (much like sunlight or exposure to a welding arc).
Now remember that a tower is a 2 way communications device. Not only is there a little light from the tower that can be seen far and wide.. There are lots of other fires in the proximity sending signals to the tower. People stick these intense radiation sources right up against their bodies while glowing brightly. They also share same spaces with other users of the devices such as on the sidewalk, in cars, on busses, in offices.
Now you wind up with a mild sunburn all over and a bad burn on the side of your face.. How much is realy from the glow on the tower?
Get real people. Near field radio signal strength is a measurable field. Also note that the signal from a cell tower isn't like a street light sending brightness to the ground directly below it. It's built like a lighthouse sending a beam of signal horizontaly. Some spills to the ground near the tower just the same as you can see a lighthouse while standing near the lighthouse. The main intensity is sent for distance. That's what all the dBi numbers are all about in antenna gain. It's the same amount of power. It's that more of it is sent off the side instead of up and down in all directions.
Many of these cell tower studies do not include time and peak weighted studies of tower field strength verses phone users field strength.
How much RF effects is from your phone and not the tower?
i tried running windows on a 286 it was worse than watching paint dry and that was with a full meg of ram
That's why in my post, I mentioned my slow system is a P III. I retired my 286 long time ago.
However when I need to burn a eprom (the old ones) I still once in a while fire up DOS and use the ISA slot burner.
Flash memory has mostly replaced the need for it along with the UV eraser.
I'd rather disembowel myself with a corkscrew than run Gnome or buy an Intel processor, thank you.
Some poeple still swear by their Commodore 64... AMD is so last year.. If you don't like Gnome, there is Kubuntu. Unlike the Windows desktop, you have a choice.
What will I do when my drive dies again?
Upgrade.
I finaly let go my 286 and Windows 3.1. Try Ubuntu on a Core 2 Duo. You will like it.
On a more realistic note. I still have a P III system running Windows 98 because it runs my GPS map software, has real serial ports for the GPS, and runs the piano tutor sofware using the MPU-401 port. When it's drive dies, it will be time to shop for a machine with the required hardware.
Besides your weekly/monthly spin up tests of your generators should tell you if you have a flat battery.
Most people don't pay attention, it either starts or it doesn't. Slower cranking is generaly not noticed unless it is extreme. Sometimes (I've seen it) the level in wet batteries is not properly monitored. On cranking, the hydrogen ignited resulting in sudden failure. Most people have no idea what the battery voltage is during cranking. How much is too low?
The flywheel can deliver 11 seconds of power so they can fail through a couple of bad engines before running out of flywheel power.
True, but it's undersize. The generators is a couple megawatts X10. The single rotary CPS size isn't specified, but from the manufactures site they list several sizes of units all under 1.5 MW. Most of the datacenter is NOT on critical power. From the size, it certanly isn't taking the support HVAC load. Since power was off for a couple hours and they didn't start generators for about 45 minutes, I'm sure any battery UPS'es died. Most racks overheat if powered up without cooling in under 15 minutes.
You forgot one very important component, the car battery used to START THE GENERATOR. I've been to many sites whereby the battery that would start the generator is a) dead or b) missing.
In many places the battery is not trusted so they use compressed air. It's easier to notice an air supply problem than a failing battery problem.
You mean that all 3 x 20,000 gallon tanks were empty? I find that hard to believe.
Look at the sheet again.. Thanks for the nice PDF by the way..
They have 10 Generators which is designed to carry the load at N+1. They have only one rotary no-break Critical Power System with one Generator. Just how much of the datacenter is not on critical power? Do the math. A CPS set is generaly sized smaller than any one of the generators. It carries essential emergency lighting, telcom, some "Critical servers" and little else. The rest of the site dumped with the outage after the little 10-20 minute UPS'es died. They waited 45 minutes before starting generators.
Speaking of generators, if they upgraded servers (rack out, blade server in...) they could easly exceed the original design of N+1 on the generators.
When shopping for a hosted datacenter, find out how much of the load is on "Critical Power". You may be dependant on battery UPS while waiting for the generators.
Of course one of those sites failed high up in a mountain range in a mid-winter storm (Tieton, 1978) when the commercial power failed, and the starter battery for the diesel froze.
On Black Bute in Oregon, a communications site went out in the middle of winter following a power outage. The generator ran a short while and shut down because it overheated. The air intake 20 feet in the air was covered in snow.
They probably just didn't kick in. Had the same problem at Internap in Seattle a few years ago.
Many datacenters didn't expect the growth they experianced. As a result, many UPS and generator sets are undersize or the entire load is not onboard. In some cases, the critical serviers are up to post the we are down page, but the HVAC system and main floor are down. What good is having a datacenter up if the building AC is down? Sometimes you are forced to shut down simply because the support AC is down and not on critical power. You can ride out a 20 minute outage without AC, but after an hour, it's at critical tempratures.
it redirects to a "Scam Blocked" page...
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If you don't like the Cox DNS results, feel free to put another DNS server in your router or computer. Switch from dynamic DNS to static DNS and use some of the public DNS servers.
Here is a good place to start..
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/public_servers.htm
This is just another attack on the free software community as outlined in the Haloween Documents.
Actualy they only modified their own DNS server. This is not breaking the Ineternet. This is breaking Cox/Time Warner walled garden ISP DNS.
If you don't like the faulty DNS, feel free to change to one of the other public DNS servers such as the public Verison DNS Server at 4.2.2.1. You don't have to use your ISP's DNS server. Go into your router setup and switch from dynamic DNS to Static and plug in 2 or 3 public DNS servers and you are back to real DNS results.
Great plan genius- now we have to find someone who bought Vista! :)
.edu's. Many of the people being watched are on educational visa's. Having ties to some of these schools may be a red flag. It's not Vista, but the remote software that may be to blame. Having active connections to schools in several contries may have raised intrest. See the logs in the screenshots.
Never trust a compromised box to tell the truth. Wake me when he has router logs instead of Vista logs or worse XP logs of a Vista monitor. Many routers will send connection logs to a 3rd machine. This way you don't have to trust the machine under test. Simply log it's traffic as it passes an external router. Now you have evidence of real traffic.
I was skeptical of the original setup. Was it Vista. The author claimed "idle" while running remote desktop software. That's hardly idle to me. What if it isn't Vista, but something like a back door into some communications package such as remote desktop?
The Department of Homeland Security may have in intrest in remote connections, especialy if they cross into hostile territories. Someting could have flagged this connection as something they wanted to watch for some reason. Maybe it's the connections to all the overseas
On a related note, I also asked Stallman what he thought of the wedding photography industry. For those of you who don't know, typical wedding photographers cost over a thousand dollars, show up at your wedding to take pictures, and then make you pay through the nose for prints.
Photographers will follow the money if nessary. If they advertise and get enough business, then they have no reason to change. If the money becomes educated and job hires a photographer with a contract for copyright including posting online for far away friends, putting into a slideshow on DVD for gifts, etc, then you will find photographers. The cost of advertising is shifted. Now you have to take bids and view potential canidates portfolios. This shift has started. As it becomes more popular, the traditional photographers will lose business to the new requirements. The shift is slow because of the entrenched model, but just like the Record industry, the shift will take time with lots of screaming and complaining in the meantime. Look for photographers lawsuits for wedding albums scanned and placed online for distant relatives. Then watch the public opinion and education to kick in.
Free software hasn't replaced closed software yet. Open document standards hasn't replaced closed formats yet. It is unavoidable the movement has started and isn't going to reverse anytime soon. Even Microsoft who wouldn't touch an open document format with a 20 foot pole is learning to adopt or die. They have seen the handwriting on the wall. There is no other way. The photographers are not as much in the limelight, but the same movement is hitting them. More people are looking at their wedding photo contract with a critical eye. Many photographers are moving to middle ground to protect the big portion of their business expensive prints. The middle ground is many photographers now offer lower resolution (web friendly) photos as part of the package with permission to email, post, and put on DVD slideshows. The really nice prints are retained under the old model. This is much like what MS is doing. They accept ODF and make no bones it's the low resolution no features version, but also have this much nicer format you can also use, but to use it you need MS Office. Kerching!
I see a problem with your plan. You would need an internet connection to get the proper settings to set up your internet connection.
Like most people, I migrated off dial-up.