If they have no intention of paying, then a sale would not have happened regardless. No money "lost" to illegal use.
Kind of related.. I buy bus tokens in a 10 pack for $35. They also sell them for $5 each. If my tokens get stolen, did I loose $35 or $50 worth of tokens or the $.10 it takes to actually make those 10 tokens?
So you're saying that Russian A can permit Russian B to do things in the US that are normally illegal in the US, and because Russian A said so, it's okay?
Please.
HUH? What is illegal in the US? Assuming allofmp3 has a legal right to distribute the music (if they don't then I agree with you 100% that the whole thing is a time bomb), the only issue at hand is the legality of that music leaving Russia and entering into the US. Plain and simple. I have no idea what rights or geographical limitations anyone has for distributing anything but that dispute or difference between two distributors of the same copyrighted work are not going to be putting you in jail.
For the parent poster to claim to have more CDs then the average person, I find it odd to make a lifetime ARCHIVE to preserve of all of them in a format that can only be played on 3 things and not one of them, a standard audio device (boom box, car stereo, home stereos etc). When I think of that many CDs and the purpose of an archive, I do not picture a person sitting in front of the computer or walking around with an iPod and headphones as the only way for music enjoyment. If those are the only way the parent listens to music and iTunes is the only thing found useful, why bother with lossless and an archive at all. I have no problem using any software if it fits my needs, the convertors you refence would be third party anyway, would you run those?
The case says, very clearly, that when you download something from the internet, it is necessarily reproduced in your computer's memory. Reproduction is illegal, per 17 USC 106(1) unless authorized by the copyright holder, or an exemption applies, and none do.
It is my understanding that allofmp3 IS authorized by the Russian equal to the RIAA to distibute the copyrighted works. The question is not about legal right for the the distribution of the media, it is about that media crossing country lines. If it is NOT legal to cross country lines, I belive allofmp3 would be the target of the law more then an individual using the service as the penalty for illegal distibution is far greater then the penalty for illegally purchasing. I can buy an audio cd from a country outside the US and bring it into the US legally provided it was an authorized copy like allofmp3 makes. IANAL and really do not know the legality of allofmp3 but I believe it is much more involved then what you referenced.
Any technical reason for not using FLAC? If I am reading the info right, the Apple lossless format plays only with the iPod, iTunes and Quicktime. IMHO, for preservation efforts, it would seem more logical to use a non proprietary and open standard tool. I hope your happy with whatever Apple releases for years to come as reconverting to something else would not be an easy task.
Document and send up the chain what your ideas of how to improve the system and prevent specific threats from happening. That will serve three purposes.
1. Should make you feel better that you are doing the best you can with what you have availabe. 2. May help you down the road if the shit hits the fan and someone higher up (if exist) has to get involved. You will look much less like part of the problem. 3. If something does happen that you specifically warned about, they may really be willing to take your advice the next time.
So basically what the AC stated, Blame your own policies, not your users. , in your case (which I have seen before), blame the management that makes that policy which is obviously about 5-10 years out of date.. Remember the Colorodo DMV screwup/fiasco article here last week? Same thing. People that do not know IT should not be doing IT. The pendulum will swing and heads will roll but the person(s) that were making the IT business decisions should not be in that role and should have made it known they were not the person that should be doing it. The result after an incident will be a manager on thin ice who better watch out for the special back seeking knives that start falling down the ladder.
I have a computer desk from the 50's, does that count for anything? It still works great. I was thinking of upgrading it with a keyboard tray as they obviously did not need one back then. Another thought was to use some thermal grease and overclock the side drawer slides but I'd have no way to monitor the drawer opening speed. I'd hate for the drawer to fall victim to thermal runaway and crash to the floor.
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10GB as a secondary? Why so big;)
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, ATA DISK drive
That is my / partition for my 24x7 Samba server. I've had it running for about 7 years now and only out for upgrades and power outages.
Granted I have 4 more 120GB for file storage but the entire actual "system" is that single 1.2GB with hda1 @ 900MB going to / (and about 400MB free) and hda2 @ 250MB for swap. When it fails, I'll grab another one I have laying around, install some bare bones distro and reference my backed up/etc directory to get things going again (Samba, IMAP, DHCP server etc). Remount my home and file stores and be done. Should not take more then a few hours tops.
Even worse is the 2 drives in my 24x7 Squid/SSH incoming gateway machine.
1GB each, one for/, and one for squid cache, all on a P100/64MB ram. If that thing ever fails, I'll chuck it and redirect incoming SSH and move Squid over to the first referenced machine.
Yeah, had they asked themselves those same questions BEFORE their entire operation was down for a week, the answers may have been different.
Not specific to Linux but there is probably a hundred questions that would now be ansered differently after this disaster. The first one being,
1) Should we actually spend money and hire or consult with someone who actually knows about hardware/software/firewall/internet that can assess our operation?
2) Should we keep that person or find a permenant person designated to IT that actually knows what they are doing and advise as required?
3) Should we actually listen to the person referenced in #2 and act on the suggestions?
As with any organization involved in this money/resources/protect my job situation, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Change will occur, Linux or not.
Be careful with that. They will eventually notice and charge you per KB or remove your Vision service. They can tell the difference of total bandwidth used from a phone browsing the internet and a computer hooked to the phone browsing the internet. Read through alt.cellular.sprintpcs and search for Vision and usb cable (or some other key words) if you want to read some of the stories. This pops up roughly every month. It does work and works great but be careful. It is against the Vision TOS regardless of any salesman claims that may have been made otherwise.
We use the same system at work for all remote access. AOL must have got one hell of a discount, I believe we are paying about 5-10 times that per user. Maybe AOL is using their own backend and only buying the FOBs.
There is a ~2000 m long, unpaved and unimproved airstrip
Certain *very large* planes need an airstrip almost that long. I doubt those same planes that require such a long strip could use a strip that is not paved. What could it have possibly been used for?
I will try that but isn't CloneCD present for all users? The fact that I had to uninstall it for it to work in my login and the fact that all users on the machine (my 2 kids and me) can use the virtual drive I think it would be. I could create that gaming account and limit access and privs but according to the Sims2 FAQ, you need admin access for the game (how's that for security). I actually tried to run Sims2 from one of my kids logins (power users) and I get an "unknown error" dialog box, yes very informative indeed. I will read more and browse around the cracks and copy sites. I'm sure someone will figure out a solution eventually. I actually do not play the game at all but my kids do. I bought it as a reward for help they gave me over the weekend and now I wish I would have just did all the work myself;).
At the suggestion of a different poster, I tried Daemon tools, it can coexist with Sims2 under my login. I guess that slipped under EAs radar.
Getting off topic here but something I will ALWAYS check for first is what copy prevention methods they use. I just got burned with Sims2. It will refuse to load if you have any "CD/DVD emulation applications installed", that means CloneCD, Nero, or Roxio installed on the computer. I am not talking trying to use the virtual CD to run the game, it will refuse to run from the original CD because it detects that software. The FAQ states to unload those applications and then play the game. I have CloneCD and Nero. I could not get the game to work unless I completely uninstalled CloneCD through control panal, not just "disable" it by removing the virtual drive option. The FAQ states there is a compatibility issue between virtual cd software and Sims2 which is COMPLETE BULLSHIT and a complete f**king lie, what they really mean is there is a chance that with those programs installed, you might be able to play the game with out the CD in the drive. I now either have to install/uninstall CloneCD all the time, sit and look at a $50 disc I purchased from EA, or wait until I can get a crack for the game I already bought. I should have just waited for the crack and not even bought the game to begin with. I tried to take the game back but of course, they refused because I opened it. I am still waiting back from EA tech support for what I can do with the game I just bought. I have a feeling I will get a canned response that it conflicts with the game or some other canned response that basically says tough shit sucker, you are out $50. What that means to me is don't buy any more games from EA, just wait for them in alt.binaries.games, you'll have a better chance of them working correctly.
That is an interesting point. I believe it boils down laws are passed based on what the current society will tolerate. The FCC has very specific rules and wording that does not allow a landlord/property owner/housing association etc.. to limit your ability to pickup and use certain pieces of the radio spectrum. I am not aware of any national laws that specific for guns or alchohol. I guess using the the radio spectrum is more of a passive activity so it was able to get through the process to become a law easier then if someone tried that that with guns on a national basis. There are areas of the country where guns laws and sale of alchohol are more relaxed then others. These areas are not consistant either, an area in NC may not allow alchohol sales at all but you can carry a gun into the grocery store. In upstate NY, you may be able to drink all you want 24/7 but they severly limit where you can carry a gun. These rules were passed based on what society in those areas would tolerate. The nation as a whole will never equal out enough to have a one law fits all for those activities.
Well you started your first post in this thread with Linux is unusable.
You appeared to make a general statement that Linux is crap and Windows is Golden. You know are stating Linux is unstable to YOU, very different meaning.
Consider this.. Would you value someones opinion of Windows stability if they never even got it working?
Linux is useless to me because I can't get the goddamned thing to work
Funny, I hear the same exact thing from 50-90% of the Windows users that have constant "unknown" problems also (spyware/viruses). Ask them how much they like Windows and how useable their computers are with connection problems, popups, competing toolbars, porn icons, and system changes. Sorry to break it to you but you have to know what you are doing with Windows also.
I setup a RH machine at my last job to interface between our Novell server and provide ftp access and web access to files and a simple web page output of arpwatch.dat file to everyone in the department from remote locations. I believe it was Cartman (RH6.?), I left about a year after it was setup. To this day almost 3 years later, they still use its services. I actually set it up at a remote site (several hundered miles away) in the server closet so I doubt they even remember where it is. They no nothing of "root" or anything Linux. I'm sure it is full of known security holes by now but at least it's on a seperate management network. I have no access to it but I am sure it runs for hundreds of days at a time.
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Substitute laser for rifle and same thing..
Of course might be a little harder to get a direct hit.
They won't pay for *anything* software-related.
If they have no intention of paying, then a sale would not have happened regardless. No money "lost" to illegal use.
Kind of related..
I buy bus tokens in a 10 pack for $35. They also sell them for $5 each. If my tokens get stolen, did I loose $35 or $50 worth of tokens or the $.10 it takes to actually make those 10 tokens?
So you're saying that Russian A can permit Russian B to do things in the US that are normally illegal in the US, and because Russian A said so, it's okay?
Please.
HUH? What is illegal in the US?
Assuming allofmp3 has a legal right to distribute the music (if they don't then I agree with you 100% that the whole thing is a time bomb), the only issue at hand is the legality of that music leaving Russia and entering into the US. Plain and simple.
I have no idea what rights or geographical limitations anyone has for distributing anything but that dispute or difference between two distributors of the same copyrighted work are not going to be putting you in jail.
For the parent poster to claim to have more CDs then the average person, I find it odd to make a lifetime ARCHIVE to preserve of all of them in a format that can only be played on 3 things and not one of them, a standard audio device (boom box, car stereo, home stereos etc). When I think of that many CDs and the purpose of an archive, I do not picture a person sitting in front of the computer or walking around with an iPod and headphones as the only way for music enjoyment. If those are the only way the parent listens to music and iTunes is the only thing found useful, why bother with lossless and an archive at all.
I have no problem using any software if it fits my needs, the convertors you refence would be third party anyway, would you run those?
The case says, very clearly, that when you download something from the internet, it is necessarily reproduced in your computer's memory. Reproduction is illegal, per 17 USC 106(1) unless authorized by the copyright holder, or an exemption applies, and none do.
It is my understanding that allofmp3 IS authorized by the Russian equal to the RIAA to distibute the copyrighted works. The question is not about legal right for the the distribution of the media, it is about that media crossing country lines. If it is NOT legal to cross country lines, I belive allofmp3 would be the target of the law more then an individual using the service as the penalty for illegal distibution is far greater then the penalty for illegally purchasing. I can buy an audio cd from a country outside the US and bring it into the US legally provided it was an authorized copy like allofmp3 makes. IANAL and really do not know the legality of allofmp3 but I believe it is much more involved then what you referenced.
Any technical reason for not using FLAC? If I am reading the info right, the Apple lossless format plays only with the iPod, iTunes and Quicktime. IMHO, for preservation efforts, it would seem more logical to use a non proprietary and open standard tool. I hope your happy with whatever Apple releases for years to come as reconverting to something else would not be an easy task.
Document and send up the chain what your ideas of how to improve the system and prevent specific threats from happening. That will serve three purposes.
1. Should make you feel better that you are doing the best you can with what you have availabe.
2. May help you down the road if the shit hits the fan and someone higher up (if exist) has to get involved. You will look much less like part of the problem.
3. If something does happen that you specifically warned about, they may really be willing to take your advice the next time.
So basically what the AC stated, Blame your own policies, not your users. , in your case (which I have seen before), blame the management that makes that policy which is obviously about 5-10 years out of date..
Remember the Colorodo DMV screwup/fiasco article here last week? Same thing. People that do not know IT should not be doing IT. The pendulum will swing and heads will roll but the person(s) that were making the IT business decisions should not be in that role and should have made it known they were not the person that should be doing it. The result after an incident will be a manager on thin ice who better watch out for the special back seeking knives that start falling down the ladder.
I have a computer desk from the 50's, does that count for anything? It still works great. I was thinking of upgrading it with a keyboard tray as they obviously did not need one back then. Another thought was to use some thermal grease and overclock the side drawer slides but I'd have no way to monitor the drawer opening speed. I'd hate for the drawer to fall victim to thermal runaway and crash to the floor.
10GB as a secondary? Why so big ;)
/etc directory to get things going again (Samba, IMAP, DHCP server etc). Remount my home and file stores and be done. Should not take more then a few hours tops.
/, and one for squid cache, all on a P100/64MB ram. If that thing ever fails, I'll chuck it and redirect incoming SSH and move Squid over to the first referenced machine.
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, ATA DISK drive
That is my / partition for my 24x7 Samba server. I've had it running for about 7 years now and only out for upgrades and power outages.
Granted I have 4 more 120GB for file storage but the entire actual "system" is that single 1.2GB with hda1 @ 900MB going to / (and about 400MB free) and hda2 @ 250MB for swap. When it fails, I'll grab another one I have laying around, install some bare bones distro and reference my backed up
Even worse is the 2 drives in my 24x7 Squid/SSH incoming gateway machine.
dev/sda Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31230N
dev/sdb Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31230N
1GB each, one for
Don't forget the $2.50/month for the un service of NOT publishing your number in the phone book.
Yeah, had they asked themselves those same questions BEFORE their entire operation was down for a week, the answers may have been different.
Not specific to Linux but there is probably a hundred questions that would now be ansered differently after this disaster. The first one being,
1) Should we actually spend money and hire or consult with someone who actually knows about hardware/software/firewall/internet that can assess our operation?
2) Should we keep that person or find a permenant person designated to IT that actually knows what they are doing and advise as required?
3) Should we actually listen to the person referenced in #2 and act on the suggestions?
As with any organization involved in this money/resources/protect my job situation, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Change will occur, Linux or not.
Be careful with that. They will eventually notice and charge you per KB or remove your Vision service. They can tell the difference of total bandwidth used from a phone browsing the internet and a computer hooked to the phone browsing the internet. Read through alt.cellular.sprintpcs and search for Vision and usb cable (or some other key words) if you want to read some of the stories. This pops up roughly every month. It does work and works great but be careful. It is against the Vision TOS regardless of any salesman claims that may have been made otherwise.
We use the same system at work for all remote access. AOL must have got one hell of a discount, I believe we are paying about 5-10 times that per user. Maybe AOL is using their own backend and only buying the FOBs.
There is a ~2000 m long, unpaved and unimproved airstrip
Certain *very large* planes need an airstrip almost that long. I doubt those same planes that require such a long strip could use a strip that is not paved. What could it have possibly been used for?
I know, offtopic, I'd post at zero if possible.
I will try that but isn't CloneCD present for all users? The fact that I had to uninstall it for it to work in my login and the fact that all users on the machine (my 2 kids and me) can use the virtual drive I think it would be. I could create that gaming account and limit access and privs but according to the Sims2 FAQ, you need admin access for the game (how's that for security). I actually tried to run Sims2 from one of my kids logins (power users) and I get an "unknown error" dialog box, yes very informative indeed. I will read more and browse around the cracks and copy sites. I'm sure someone will figure out a solution eventually. I actually do not play the game at all but my kids do. I bought it as a reward for help they gave me over the weekend and now I wish I would have just did all the work myself ;).
At the suggestion of a different poster, I tried Daemon tools, it can coexist with Sims2 under my login. I guess that slipped under EAs radar.
you don't buy it until
Getting off topic here but something I will ALWAYS check for first is what copy prevention methods they use. I just got burned with Sims2. It will refuse to load if you have any "CD/DVD emulation applications installed", that means CloneCD, Nero, or Roxio installed on the computer. I am not talking trying to use the virtual CD to run the game, it will refuse to run from the original CD because it detects that software. The FAQ states to unload those applications and then play the game. I have CloneCD and Nero. I could not get the game to work unless I completely uninstalled CloneCD through control panal, not just "disable" it by removing the virtual drive option. The FAQ states there is a compatibility issue between virtual cd software and Sims2 which is COMPLETE BULLSHIT and a complete f**king lie, what they really mean is there is a chance that with those programs installed, you might be able to play the game with out the CD in the drive. I now either have to install/uninstall CloneCD all the time, sit and look at a $50 disc I purchased from EA, or wait until I can get a crack for the game I already bought. I should have just waited for the crack and not even bought the game to begin with. I tried to take the game back but of course, they refused because I opened it. I am still waiting back from EA tech support for what I can do with the game I just bought. I have a feeling I will get a canned response that it conflicts with the game or some other canned response that basically says tough shit sucker, you are out $50. What that means to me is don't buy any more games from EA, just wait for them in alt.binaries.games, you'll have a better chance of them working correctly.
HOSEF web site.
Details of some of the projects.
Some thank you letters.
That is an interesting point. I believe it boils down laws are passed based on what the current society will tolerate.
The FCC has very specific rules and wording that does not allow a landlord/property owner/housing association etc.. to limit your ability to pickup and use certain pieces of the radio spectrum. I am not aware of any national laws that specific for guns or alchohol. I guess using the the radio spectrum is more of a passive activity so it was able to get through the process to become a law easier then if someone tried that that with guns on a national basis.
There are areas of the country where guns laws and sale of alchohol are more relaxed then others. These areas are not consistant either, an area in NC may not allow alchohol sales at all but you can carry a gun into the grocery store. In upstate NY, you may be able to drink all you want 24/7 but they severly limit where you can carry a gun. These rules were passed based on what society in those areas would tolerate. The nation as a whole will never equal out enough to have a one law fits all for those activities.
Well you started your first post in this thread with
Linux is unusable.
You appeared to make a general statement that Linux is crap and Windows is Golden. You know are stating Linux is unstable to YOU, very different meaning.
Consider this..
Would you value someones opinion of Windows stability if they never even got it working?
Linux is useless to me because I can't get the goddamned thing to work
Funny, I hear the same exact thing from 50-90% of the Windows users that have constant "unknown" problems also (spyware/viruses). Ask them how much they like Windows and how useable their computers are with connection problems, popups, competing toolbars, porn icons, and system changes. Sorry to break it to you but you have to know what you are doing with Windows also.
I got my XP SP2 update CD from free display case at Staples. If I ever install XP, maybe I'll use it!
Who modded this offtopic?
HiJackthis is another great tool for spyware removal.
Don't forget the alt.privacy.spyware faq.
I setup a RH machine at my last job to interface between our Novell server and provide ftp access and web access to files and a simple web page output of arpwatch.dat file to everyone in the department from remote locations. I believe it was Cartman (RH6.?), I left about a year after it was setup. To this day almost 3 years later, they still use its services. I actually set it up at a remote site (several hundered miles away) in the server closet so I doubt they even remember where it is. They no nothing of "root" or anything Linux. I'm sure it is full of known security holes by now but at least it's on a seperate management network. I have no access to it but I am sure it runs for hundreds of days at a time.