Microsoft said customers using the newest versions of its e-mail software, Outlook Express 6 and Outlook 2002, were protected from hackers trying to exploit the problem using e-mails.
They should have add the following, "or if you are using just about any other mail reader besides ours."
I love how MS attempts to twist the story here and appears to make it look like you should only be using the most recent versions of THEIR software to be safe. They completely fail to mention that the only reason any of this is possible is bacause of their software and its integration into IE and the OS. If you were using almost ANY OTHER email program not designed by them or one that did not use their glob job interent settings you would be safe also. I use Pegasus and it is not effected by this at all.
The memory company Micron is a perfect example. I can not find the figures right now but I believe they recieved over $15 million from the federal government to compensate for potential chip dumping from Hynix in South Korea (which Micron tried to buy but failed). Well, two months ago Micron all but closed both of their US fabs to concentrate on cheaper overseas production.
You have just commented on the exact point I was trying to make. Let me rephrase my first paragraph.. Basically it states some things should be enterprise level when required and it is nice to have a CYA backup when you get stumped. Not all things in an enterprise NEED to be at such a level. In my specific example, if all else fails, anyone in the office can crack out the DVD's and image the damn workstations manually if they wish.
There is always FUD associated with "Enterprise" class hardware and software. Some things really do need to perform at specific level or a baseline to run in this class, others do not but ride the coat tails of others that due for the exact reason you specify -- people do not want to bet their job on it, remember the old saying, you will never get fired for buying IBM.
At work we decommisioned a large Compaq 2 year old server with a nice raid setup and SAN connectivity running Novell to make room for our MS takeover. The last job this server performed was storage to allow us to boot workstations with a network floppy and create and restore desktop images and for general storage in the IT department. It wasnt to bad but we never really achieved any more then 2-3MBytes/sec when transferring files to and from it. We did not have our new MS server to replace it yet so I took a small footprint Compaq P-III desktop with 512MB ram and loaded RH on it, slapped in an extra 7200rpm Maxtor 160GB IDE drive. Installed Samba, joined it to our W2K domain and it works great. We pull and store multiple images to the thing at roughly 5Mbyte/sec per PC and it has a sustained thoughput of about 10-12Mbyte/sec per HD or per network card (I have two NICs and you can select which one to use from the client boot disk when you connect. It also lets us burn DVD's directly from a Windows workstation at 2.4 speed (3.5Mbytes/sec) which our Novell server could never handle (many buffer underruns or had to transfer image file to the PC first).
It does not have the redundancy of the old Novell server as I have a no raid setup but I back up the files using rsync to my other Linux machine on a daily basis and we have hundreds of other similar desktops I could grab parts from if needed. That desktop coast us about $600. that server was well over $5000.
I guess the point is, it does not have to say "Enterprise", server, or cost a lot of money to perform the work you may need.
The only other small problem is if I get hit by a bus they are screwed as the rest of the department has little interest in the headless Linux thing I have sitting on my desk. I am willing to explain it to anyone but being in a MS driven shop, so far only one person is interested. All they know is it currently works great.
I have a Nostromo n45 dual analog USB gamepad. I picked it up at buy.com for $16. It works great and is very flexible. The only thing I had issues with was the looseness of the analog sticks. They work great but they are not as tight as the ones on a real PS2/PS1 analog controller. Once you get used to it, it is fine. For car racing games I am more picky. I have found the fine control of a large analog flight stick is easier then a smaller analog stick for steering. The more realistic the physics model is of the game , the more a twitchy or jumpy joystick hurts the game play, trying to play Gran Turismo (good game) with a digital controller (bad thing) is a perfect example. I've also tried various steering wheel combos but did not like any of them. The best controller I ever had for racing was a handheld racing wheel that was shaped similar to how you would hold a fishing rod. It had high density foam around a spring return wheel on top, an analog trigger like control underneath (accelerate) and a analog button on top for the left thumb (brake), plus a few other digital buttons for e-brake, horn etc.. Whatever company made it (Interact?) had a PSX version and one for the PC but it was not USB. I wish I could find something like this in USB now.
By wood for floors, I was talking about plain old wood. Get some planks and nail 'em down.. The parent poster was claiming that world is coming to an end and I offered a temporary solution. After all, the thousands of years before last centry, everyone had "natural" walls, floors, and roofs.
As for the stone floors.. Very good idea and would would probably look nice but I believe the extra stuctural support required by the weight of the stone would offset any environmental advantages.
Maybe an underground house would provide the most benefit, Less external structure to cover and maintain, constant 55-57F temperature so yearly heating and cooling peaks would be reduced, and probably less prone to natural disaster damage (except flooding of course). You could get light in through tubes or even with mirrors to simulate windows?
So which is better? Vinyl siding on your home or natural wood shingles? Sythentic carpet or a wood floor? Vinyl siding and nylon carpet are made from toxic chemicals that have wasteful byproducts and does not break down for hundreds of years if at all. Or should you cut down more trees for a wood floor and wood shingles? Maybe we should all live in caves.
Downside is that the serial interface to the controller tops out at 300 kbps, but for $33 (in 10K quantities) it's a cool, easy way to net-enable just about anything."
The size is a big factor but there are already full blown devices that can do far more then this and are cheaper. Take a look at some DSL/Cable routers. Siemens sells one that is a 10/100 4 port switch, web interface and control, printer port, firewall, etc... for $19 and $28. Many SMC barricades and Linksys models are going for under $40. These devices might not fit into a toaster but I know they could be made smaller. I know comparing these to the articles product is not apples to apples but there are cheaper and more robust web and network enabled devices already out on the street.
All Electronics in LA and Van Nuys. You can order online or through their catalog. I have been ordering from this place since the early 90's. They concentrate on surplus consumer and industrial electronics but they also have a hefty stock of electronic supplies and a decent selection of tools, fastening hardware, gears and such. Great place if you build electronic things.
So then why even offer it? They brag about the speed, the applications you can run and the videos you can watch at ultra high speed, but when people actually start using it, they cry foul. WTF is that?
Do not offer or market a product that you can not sell. The "average" user model they use to calculate an expected total bandwidth per month is a complete sham. The average user is using far more now then they ever were. Singling out ones that use more then the median amount is not fair either. They are paying for and using the advertised service. That's like complaining to the fat dude at the all you can eat buffet. It is there and he is paying for it.
What about a street corner with a clipboard or snail mailing out your questions with a PPP return envelope? That way YOU or your organization is footing the bill and time and not the people like myself that have NO interest in participating.
I do not agree with your statement. It's not like all these bystandards using their home computers and corporate office types are hanging around waiting for one to beat the other before they make the jump. 99.99% of non linux users have never even heard of Gnome or KDE.
Cordless phones quality is a crap shoot. Generally speaking...
46-49Mhz analog: Sucked, luckily I don't even think they are made anymore. Great if you want to tune in on your neighbors phone or a nearby baby monitor.
900/2400Mhz analog: Better then 46-49.
900Mhz/2400Mhz Digital: Much better then analog and normally about 2x the distance.
900/2400Mhz Digital Spread Spectrum (DSS): About the best you can get. Average about 4x of any analog phone and normally does not get worse with distance, just drops off when you get to far (don't know if that is good or bad) but should beep before hand to let you know.
The unknown part is the quality of the actual phone. I have a 900Mhz DSS Vtech #1984 that is outstanding. By far the best cordless phone I have EVER used. It is very consistant, very clear and works at least 500ft from my house. Problem is after 5 years, the NiCD battery pack is going and it is in a proprietary type case and it does not have a page button function to find it (what were they thinking?).
Since I bought that, I had a 900 DSS AT&T for about a month before it died. Very cheap and quality sucked. A Toshiba 900Mhz DSS that I still use and a pair of 2.4Ghz DSS Unidens that I got this Xmas. I have never had interference issues with any DSS phone, even with multiple ones in use in the house at the same time.
When looking for a cordless phone, limit yourself to a DSS model and compare quality from there.
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Tiger Direct has 36GB Ultra160 SCSI's for only $99. Anyone know if these are some type of rejects? Google did not reveal any obvious issues with this model.
Just because someone spells a word wrong or is not very good with english has NOTHING to do with their overall knowledge level. It appears that way to some people because sometimes it is the only thing you have in common with another person. Any two people that speak english can compare themselves at that. Comparing your knowledge to someone else is not like running side by side in a 100 yard dash. A system administrator can not directly compare his skill level to a network admin. A nuclear reactor operator can not directly compare himself to a circuit designer or a computer programmer. So... those that can not see that concept and want to compare themselves to others tend to compare the use of the english language. Probably the only thing they really have in common. This should not be confused with 'overall' knowledge level.
International competition helps keep prices low, but any innovation slowdown in the U.S., coupled with the economic realities of war and the eventual arrival of more overseas competition, will affect CEO jobs, tens of thousands of tech workers, and possibly the entire nation's standard of living.
CEO's jobs are not currently based on long term goals, they are based on short term growth. To get that short term growth, they are limiting any long term future. This has nothing to do with innovation and R&D spending, it has everything to do with pleasing the shareholder and cashing stock options.
We're sending H-1B visa holders home with pink slips and a basket of skills they learned from U.S. companies. We should be giving the brightest of them research fellowships working for the Department Homeland Security.
Sending them home is one thing, the fact that the program even exists at the level it does is another. I know this is another heated topic in itself but I believe the main reason this was even started was not to fill a knowledge void but to increase the supply of tech people which lowered the wages. This is directly tied to the CEO's short term growth plan I mentioned above. People born outside of the US were not genetically altered to be smarter, they may or may not have had a better K12 education. IMHO, the amount of difference is somewhat questionable and not does not reflect how you will perform with specialized training and concepts down the road.
I know the local law enforcement gets away with it but to me it still does not seem justified. That's like telling someone not to steal and being charged with obstruction. They are not doing any justice until after they catch you actually speeding. You flashing your lights at a motorist does not automatically mean that the driver was even speeding or breaking any law to begin with and even if they were, the police would have to prove it first. Now if they are chasing the speeder after the fact and you get in the cops way they have a reason to charge you. Why don't they charge every person with a CB that discusses where the police are? What if you stood up the road with a sign in your hand? What about a local radio station that announces it? Can they hand out fines for that? A locality that has a practice like this has the wrong idea of what a speed limit is for. Speeding tickets, limits and fines are not supposed to be income for the police and communities, they are there to promote safety. The goal is to provide police presence and get you to slow down in areas that need extra attention. Targeting individual cars or ticketing someone who might be warning someone to slow down does not meet that goal and really does not make any sense at all. Areas that treat it as income probably have artifically low speed limits that make it even worse.
No, it is cheaper to lobby for law changes then to get it right the first time. Even though this route does nothing to protect privacy or security, it allows the companies to claim it is secure. Two perfect examples are the DMCA and what they did with the cellular and cordless phones frequency bands by constantlymodifying the Communications Act or 1934.
My friend in HS got a ticket for flashing his headlights at another vehicle in small town, PA. He was doing it to alert another driver of an up coming speed trap. I was not in court with him but bottom line was turning them off and back on was considered driving at night without your headlights on, flashing the high beams was considered reckless because the oncoming traffic was "too close". People flash headlights all the time for various reasons and probably never get a ticket, I guess flashing them with intent to warn about police ahead was enough for a small town cop to give a ticket for and a small town magistrate to enforce it.
My last company had hundreds of these things, the TI-810 it is an old serial dot matrix line printer. I have dropped these 40lb creatures more then 3 feet off their wobbly stand and they still work great. Sometimes they need the cards reseated but they will eventually print again. I've seen some completely filled with dirt, staples, pens, and paper clips still chugging along. Blow them out with air and they are good as new. I've even seen a few with bad power supplies that people have fixed by replacing the fuse with a paper clip. We used to keep spares and parts in the "graveyard", it was a semi covered outdoor equivelent to the area under a mobile trailer. We were replacing some with Oki320's, although they looked better, they we not as durable as the old TI's!
I bought a 60K page count LJ4+ complete with a used toner for $100. I've printed about 3k sheets in the past two years with it and it's still going stong. I even found some ram in my junk drawer to bring it up to 18MB.
If what you are sending weren't in some way illegal, you would just stick it on a web page.
That argument is the same bullshit that the media companies want everyone to believe. I have almost 1GB of amature racing and prank videos, about 100MB of music that I made, about 400MB of freely distributable audio files from other amatures, and some Linux distro iso's shared out (that people are d/l'ing all the time, try it sometime). What web server can I put these on as cheaply and easily as I can fire up KaZaa lite? Where can I search for some of this stuff on the web? P2P is easy to use and extremely easy to find what I am looking for.
Other points:
It does not have to be owned by a media company to be of interesting value to someone. People can make and share and distribute thier own content for very little cost. Just because I am using P2P does not mean I am stealing from a copyright owner.
There are thousands of independant bands and music makers in the world that you have never heard. If they were given the same "microphone" to be heard by the general public we would see there really is a choice, with the protected MPAA/RIAA distribution cartel, this will never happen and things like the basis of this slashdot article will keep happening. IMHO, media companies are spreading FUD using the piracy card to limit the competition and protect their outdated business model.
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Microsoft said customers using the newest versions of its e-mail software, Outlook Express 6 and Outlook 2002, were protected from hackers trying to exploit the problem using e-mails.
They should have add the following, "or if you are using just about any other mail reader besides ours."
I love how MS attempts to twist the story here and appears to make it look like you should only be using the most recent versions of THEIR software to be safe. They completely fail to mention that the only reason any of this is possible is bacause of their software and its integration into IE and the OS. If you were using almost ANY OTHER email program not designed by them or one that did not use their glob job interent settings you would be safe also. I use Pegasus and it is not effected by this at all.
Stats for Sun Microsystems in Palo Alto care of h1b.info
More can be found by searching for Sun at http://h1b.info/lca_search.php
The memory company Micron is a perfect example. I can not find the figures right now but I believe they recieved over $15 million from the federal government to compensate for potential chip dumping from Hynix in South Korea (which Micron tried to buy but failed). Well, two months ago Micron all but closed both of their US fabs to concentrate on cheaper overseas production.
Here is their H1-B info
You have just commented on the exact point I was trying to make.
Let me rephrase my first paragraph.. Basically it states some things should be enterprise level when required and it is nice to have a CYA backup when you get stumped. Not all things in an enterprise NEED to be at such a level.
In my specific example, if all else fails, anyone in the office can crack out the DVD's and image the damn workstations manually if they wish.
There is always FUD associated with "Enterprise" class hardware and software. Some things really do need to perform at specific level or a baseline to run in this class, others do not but ride the coat tails of others that due for the exact reason you specify -- people do not want to bet their job on it, remember the old saying, you will never get fired for buying IBM.
At work we decommisioned a large Compaq 2 year old server with a nice raid setup and SAN connectivity running Novell to make room for our MS takeover. The last job this server performed was storage to allow us to boot workstations with a network floppy and create and restore desktop images and for general storage in the IT department. It wasnt to bad but we never really achieved any more then 2-3MBytes/sec when transferring files to and from it. We did not have our new MS server to replace it yet so I took a small footprint Compaq P-III desktop with 512MB ram and loaded RH on it, slapped in an extra 7200rpm Maxtor 160GB IDE drive. Installed Samba, joined it to our W2K domain and it works great. We pull and store multiple images to the thing at roughly 5Mbyte/sec per PC and it has a sustained thoughput of about 10-12Mbyte/sec per HD or per network card (I have two NICs and you can select which one to use from the client boot disk when you connect. It also lets us burn DVD's directly from a Windows workstation at 2.4 speed (3.5Mbytes/sec) which our Novell server could never handle (many buffer underruns or had to transfer image file to the PC first).
It does not have the redundancy of the old Novell server as I have a no raid setup but I back up the files using rsync to my other Linux machine on a daily basis and we have hundreds of other similar desktops I could grab parts from if needed. That desktop coast us about $600. that server was well over $5000.
I guess the point is, it does not have to say "Enterprise", server, or cost a lot of money to perform the work you may need.
The only other small problem is if I get hit by a bus they are screwed as the rest of the department has little interest in the headless Linux thing I have sitting on my desk. I am willing to explain it to anyone but being in a MS driven shop, so far only one person is interested. All they know is it currently works great.
I have a Nostromo n45 dual analog USB gamepad. I picked it up at buy.com for $16. It works great and is very flexible. The only thing I had issues with was the looseness of the analog sticks. They work great but they are not as tight as the ones on a real PS2/PS1 analog controller. Once you get used to it, it is fine.
For car racing games I am more picky. I have found the fine control of a large analog flight stick is easier then a smaller analog stick for steering. The more realistic the physics model is of the game , the more a twitchy or jumpy joystick hurts the game play, trying to play Gran Turismo (good game) with a digital controller (bad thing) is a perfect example. I've also tried various steering wheel combos but did not like any of them. The best controller I ever had for racing was a handheld racing wheel that was shaped similar to how you would hold a fishing rod. It had high density foam around a spring return wheel on top, an analog trigger like control underneath (accelerate) and a analog button on top for the left thumb (brake), plus a few other digital buttons for e-brake, horn etc.. Whatever company made it (Interact?) had a PSX version and one for the PC but it was not USB. I wish I could find something like this in USB now.
By wood for floors, I was talking about plain old wood. Get some planks and nail 'em down.. The parent poster was claiming that world is coming to an end and I offered a temporary solution. After all, the thousands of years before last centry, everyone had "natural" walls, floors, and roofs.
As for the stone floors.. Very good idea and would would probably look nice but I believe the extra stuctural support required by the weight of the stone would offset any environmental advantages.
Maybe an underground house would provide the most benefit, Less external structure to cover and maintain, constant 55-57F temperature so yearly heating and cooling peaks would be reduced, and probably less prone to natural disaster damage (except flooding of course). You could get light in through tubes or even with mirrors to simulate windows?
So which is better? Vinyl siding on your home or natural wood shingles? Sythentic carpet or a wood floor? Vinyl siding and nylon carpet are made from toxic chemicals that have wasteful byproducts and does not break down for hundreds of years if at all. Or should you cut down more trees for a wood floor and wood shingles? Maybe we should all live in caves.
Downside is that the serial interface to the controller tops out at 300 kbps, but for $33 (in 10K quantities) it's a cool, easy way to net-enable just about anything."
The size is a big factor but there are already full blown devices that can do far more then this and are cheaper. Take a look at some DSL/Cable routers. Siemens sells one that is a 10/100 4 port switch, web interface and control, printer port, firewall, etc... for $19 and $28. Many SMC barricades and Linksys models are going for under $40. These devices might not fit into a toaster but I know they could be made smaller. I know comparing these to the articles product is not apples to apples but there are cheaper and more robust web and network enabled devices already out on the street.
All Electronics in LA and Van Nuys. You can order online or through their catalog. I have been ordering from this place since the early 90's. They concentrate on surplus consumer and industrial electronics but they also have a hefty stock of electronic supplies and a decent selection of tools, fastening hardware, gears and such. Great place if you build electronic things.
So then why even offer it? They brag about the speed, the applications you can run and the videos you can watch at ultra high speed, but when people actually start using it, they cry foul. WTF is that?
Do not offer or market a product that you can not sell. The "average" user model they use to calculate an expected total bandwidth per month is a complete sham. The average user is using far more now then they ever were. Singling out ones that use more then the median amount is not fair either. They are paying for and using the advertised service. That's like complaining to the fat dude at the all you can eat buffet. It is there and he is paying for it.
What about a street corner with a clipboard or snail mailing out your questions with a PPP return envelope?
That way YOU or your organization is footing the bill and time and not the people like myself that have NO interest in participating.
But that helps when I play Minesweeper
I do not agree with your statement. It's not like all these bystandards using their home computers and corporate office types are hanging around waiting for one to beat the other before they make the jump. 99.99% of non linux users have never even heard of Gnome or KDE.
Generally speaking...
46-49Mhz analog: Sucked, luckily I don't even think they are made anymore. Great if you want to tune in on your neighbors phone or a nearby baby monitor.
900/2400Mhz analog: Better then 46-49.
900Mhz/2400Mhz Digital: Much better then analog and normally about 2x the distance.
900/2400Mhz Digital Spread Spectrum (DSS): About the best you can get. Average about 4x of any analog phone and normally does not get worse with distance, just drops off when you get to far (don't know if that is good or bad) but should beep before hand to let you know.
The unknown part is the quality of the actual phone. I have a 900Mhz DSS Vtech #1984 that is outstanding. By far the best cordless phone I have EVER used. It is very consistant, very clear and works at least 500ft from my house. Problem is after 5 years, the NiCD battery pack is going and it is in a proprietary type case and it does not have a page button function to find it (what were they thinking?).
Since I bought that, I had a 900 DSS AT&T for about a month before it died. Very cheap and quality sucked. A Toshiba 900Mhz DSS that I still use and a pair of 2.4Ghz DSS Unidens that I got this Xmas. I have never had interference issues with any DSS phone, even with multiple ones in use in the house at the same time.
When looking for a cordless phone, limit yourself to a DSS model and compare quality from there.
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Tiger Direct has 36GB Ultra160 SCSI's for only $99. Anyone know if these are some type of rejects? Google did not reveal any obvious issues with this model.
Just because someone spells a word wrong or is not very good with english has NOTHING to do with their overall knowledge level. It appears that way to some people because sometimes it is the only thing you have in common with another person. Any two people that speak english can compare themselves at that. Comparing your knowledge to someone else is not like running side by side in a 100 yard dash. A system administrator can not directly compare his skill level to a network admin. A nuclear reactor operator can not directly compare himself to a circuit designer or a computer programmer. So... those that can not see that concept and want to compare themselves to others tend to compare the use of the english language. Probably the only thing they really have in common. This should not be confused with 'overall' knowledge level.
International competition helps keep prices low, but any innovation slowdown in the U.S., coupled with the economic realities of war and the eventual arrival of more overseas competition, will affect CEO jobs, tens of thousands of tech workers, and possibly the entire nation's standard of living.
CEO's jobs are not currently based on long term goals, they are based on short term growth. To get that short term growth, they are limiting any long term future. This has nothing to do with innovation and R&D spending, it has everything to do with pleasing the shareholder and cashing stock options.
We're sending H-1B visa holders home with pink slips and a basket of skills they learned from U.S. companies. We should be giving the brightest of them research fellowships working for the Department Homeland Security.
Sending them home is one thing, the fact that the program even exists at the level it does is another. I know this is another heated topic in itself but I believe the main reason this was even started was not to fill a knowledge void but to increase the supply of tech people which lowered the wages. This is directly tied to the CEO's short term growth plan I mentioned above. People born outside of the US were not genetically altered to be smarter, they may or may not have had a better K12 education. IMHO, the amount of difference is somewhat questionable and not does not reflect how you will perform with specialized training and concepts down the road.
I know the local law enforcement gets away with it but to me it still does not seem justified. That's like telling someone not to steal and being charged with obstruction. They are not doing any justice until after they catch you actually speeding. You flashing your lights at a motorist does not automatically mean that the driver was even speeding or breaking any law to begin with and even if they were, the police would have to prove it first. Now if they are chasing the speeder after the fact and you get in the cops way they have a reason to charge you. Why don't they charge every person with a CB that discusses where the police are? What if you stood up the road with a sign in your hand? What about a local radio station that announces it? Can they hand out fines for that? A locality that has a practice like this has the wrong idea of what a speed limit is for. Speeding tickets, limits and fines are not supposed to be income for the police and communities, they are there to promote safety. The goal is to provide police presence and get you to slow down in areas that need extra attention. Targeting individual cars or ticketing someone who might be warning someone to slow down does not meet that goal and really does not make any sense at all. Areas that treat it as income probably have artifically low speed limits that make it even worse.
No, it is cheaper to lobby for law changes then to get it right the first time. Even though this route does nothing to protect privacy or security, it allows the companies to claim it is secure. Two perfect examples are the DMCA and what they did with the cellular and cordless phones frequency bands by constantly modifying the Communications Act or 1934.
My friend in HS got a ticket for flashing his headlights at another vehicle in small town, PA. He was doing it to alert another driver of an up coming speed trap. I was not in court with him but bottom line was turning them off and back on was considered driving at night without your headlights on, flashing the high beams was considered reckless because the oncoming traffic was "too close". People flash headlights all the time for various reasons and probably never get a ticket, I guess flashing them with intent to warn about police ahead was enough for a small town cop to give a ticket for and a small town magistrate to enforce it.
My last company had hundreds of these things, the TI-810 it is an old serial dot matrix line printer. I have dropped these 40lb creatures more then 3 feet off their wobbly stand and they still work great. Sometimes they need the cards reseated but they will eventually print again. I've seen some completely filled with dirt, staples, pens, and paper clips still chugging along. Blow them out with air and they are good as new. I've even seen a few with bad power supplies that people have fixed by replacing the fuse with a paper clip. We used to keep spares and parts in the "graveyard", it was a semi covered outdoor equivelent to the area under a mobile trailer. We were replacing some with Oki320's, although they looked better, they we not as durable as the old TI's!
I bought a 60K page count LJ4+ complete with a used toner for $100. I've printed about 3k sheets in the past two years with it and it's still going stong. I even found some ram in my junk drawer to bring it up to 18MB.
If what you are sending weren't in some way illegal, you would just stick it on a web page.
That argument is the same bullshit that the media companies want everyone to believe. I have almost 1GB of amature racing and prank videos, about 100MB of music that I made, about 400MB of freely distributable audio files from other amatures, and some Linux distro iso's shared out (that people are d/l'ing all the time, try it sometime). What web server can I put these on as cheaply and easily as I can fire up KaZaa lite? Where can I search for some of this stuff on the web? P2P is easy to use and extremely easy to find what I am looking for.
Other points:
It does not have to be owned by a media company to be of interesting value to someone.
People can make and share and distribute thier own content for very little cost.
Just because I am using P2P does not mean I am stealing from a copyright owner.
There are thousands of independant bands and music makers in the world that you have never heard. If they were given the same "microphone" to be heard by the general public we would see there really is a choice, with the protected MPAA/RIAA distribution cartel, this will never happen and things like the basis of this slashdot article will keep happening. IMHO, media companies are spreading FUD using the piracy card to limit the competition and protect their outdated business model.
Seems like the exact definition of any xxx.forsale group on usenet. Hell, ANY group on usenet.