I am using a similar approach but since I am still on a dialup, I can only dialin to get remote access, which works but SLOW..
I have roughly 10 computers in the house and 4 users. I have one main Linux machine with several 40GB drives that basically holds everything for the Linux and Windows clients (some dual boot, some static) and the web server (another Linux machine).
The main Linux machine has Samba and NFS. All other Linux machines mount a single/home and the Win clients map the same homes through a login script. I use IMAP locally and Fetchmail for remote mail. I choose not to use roaming profiles in Windows but I still use domain logins and modified the resistry to store Favorites, My Documents, Temporary Int Files, Cookies, and a few others in the homes share also. K-meleon is just as easy. I have access to any of my files, email, bookmarks, Open Office docs, any fonts and whatever else I need from any Linux or Win computer in the house simply by logging in as myself.. I have a seperate share for my MP3's which are availble to all clients and NFS'd over to my web server where I use a php script called Andromeda to format and make them look nice from a web browser, there are tons that use SQL but I'm not that advanced yet.. The only thing I need to backup is/home and a few of the other smaller shares on the main server. My tape drive in only 2GB so I simply tgz it and send it over to my Linux web server weekly via cron.
Most cellular plans in the US charge a fee for messages to a cell phone. This would result in a direct out of pocket expense that the consumer can see every month on thier phone bill. Junk email to your ISP costs money but it is not reflected directly in your monthly bill. Both cost money and resources that the consumer MUST pay for. I have not received SMS or email spam to any of my cell phones yet. When (not if) it starts it will be a royal pain in the a$$ and I will have to cancel the service completely. Laws for spam will not change until the increased cost is directly visible by the consumer.
You need local Linux support person as much as you need support for your MS, Novell, Cisco etc.. products. None of these products monitor, fix, and patch themselves to the extent they are untouchable. If your local Linux support person does not know how to use IRC or Google then you might want to look for another one. If you do not have a Linux person, or another tech less experienced in Unix is handling the problems, $200 a call may be a good deal and much needed.
A few years ago, the RIAA pushed for laws to protect them from "exact digital copies". They played this card for years claiming these exact digital copies were a problem killing the industry. Now they seemed to have changed thier mind and this was a ploy to set the stage for further restrictions. MP3's, movie bootlegs, and other derived sources are not even close to exact copies of the original. This seems to be what this legislation would prevent. Maybe they would like to return to the days when everyone chucked thier 8-tracks, albums only lasted a few years and tapes were destroyed by sticky mechanisms. People were re-buying the same thing over again. Almost a pay-per-view concept that would ensure a revenue stream or repeat buyers.
As others have stated... They can create thier own technology and sell it to the consumers. Why should someone expect an entire industry to change for them? Sadly enough, the winner will be determined by the best lobbying effort..
I do not have an opinion either way.. As a registered/. user you have a choice to mask stories from specific authors and specific topics when you enter/. If it bothers you that bad, check out your user info page and modify it to block what you don't like.
Funny thing... I did the same exact thing for the job I am at now.. I softened the resume and started getting calls. My last job paid below average for what I was doing and the one I have now pays above average so in the end I'm not really making that much less. Of course now I deal with end users which I thought I'd never have to do again. Bottom line, it pays the bills and I am not under any pressure. I want to eventually move around again and I hope this job will not be a negative in the future, I'm trying to stay in the loop. I actually have fun calling the system administrator and telling him that the mail/file/backup/etc server is all jacked up again. Then I add a "maybe you should just reboot it again";)
As with most issues of this nature.. If the story hits big, and big media starts questioning the practice, MS will claim that it was a programing error, it was changed but they actually have no plans to really share that data, or it was strictly an "accident" in preparing for some upcoming vapor feature they planned on adding or testing. Sorry..
If it doesnt hit big the plan will stay put and 99.9% of the users will never know. Another reason I always use completely bogus information for these registration things.
You know.. I read the/. headline for the article. Spent about 5 minutes reading various replies and comments about the article and I still had no real interest in actually reading the article. Then I read your comment which sparked my interest and I went and looked.
Now I know I have nolife and hang out on/. too much..
I am waiting for the RIAA backed $20/month option from Verizon Wireless and Kazza to store 16MB worth of 56kbit/sec encoded music that you can stream to your phone for "access to your music anywhere, anytime".
I agree with your priority statement but what do you mean by:
That's the problem with/.
You are included and a participant in the/. cluster-f**k as much as anyone else. You are not here in some 'third party' stance looking in from the outside.. I hate to break it to you but you are as much a part of/. as anyone else is.
This happened in the past with the padding of the cell phone industry. Analog mode cell phones send clear audio over the air in roughly the 868-890 MHz range. To protect the cell phone industry, the government passed a law in 1994 to prevent the sale of consumer radio scanners from receiving these frequencies. That worked for a while but many scanners were easily 'hacked' to get this region back. In 1997 the law was modified/changed to make it illegal to modify a scanner and companies had to produce scanners that were tamper proof.
These air bands were open to public ears for decades before the cell phone industry came to life. They chose to use "plain text" audio for analog transmissions to save money with no regard for your privacy. The government stepped in to bail them out when scanning these frequencies became popular and to give the public a false sense of security so they would buy more of them and keep the cell phone industry going strong.
It is also illegal to listen to analog cordless phones (46-49MHz/900MHz) but there is no law preventing the scanners from receiving these bands. I guess the cordless guys could not drum up enough soft money to get that through.
Compact fluorescent bulbs are a very good alternative. They come in many shapes and sizes, last roughly 7000-10000 hours and use about 75% less power then incandescent. I've seen 5 packs of bulbs at warehouse clubs for under $19. They are getting physically smaller and cheaper all the time.
I've bought and used these LED's before. You can find them cheap here. I've built a few things with these and they are impressive. A solar cell, two AA rechargable batteries and one of these lights can be put to use just about anywhere.
When contacted by Salon on April 26 about reports of malicious code at the IntelliTech sites, Alchemy's vice president Jamie Daquino said his position was Shut down first, ask questions later.
"For someone to get written up as a virus, that's pretty serious. If they're doing what people are saying, it's illegal. We don't want to be associated with that," said Daquino.
I hate to quote so much but this is scary. This is Alchemy's response based on some info from Salon? Without even checking with IntelliTech first they simply "pull the plug"? After reading the articles I formed my own opinion that IntelliTech is complete trash but what gives Alchemy the right to simply pull the plug? I assume they have an official step by step to deal with issues of this nature but they appear to not use them. Alchemy basically states that they don't know what IntelliTech is doing, did not bother to ask, but pulled the plug anyway.
Slashdot 101 Its not at the root. That is exactly why I had an include there stating it was reply. Not that I want to feed you but this happens all the time. People post a reply to an AK or a post that is modded at 0 or below. If you are browsing 1+, ignoring AK's etc. You will not see the original and think that my reply is at the root or I get modded down for being off-topic or I am crazy and writing a reply to no one.
I'm not expert either.. This is simply an observation. Different groups of law enforcement report to or get thier funding from different agencies. He who provides funding can direct the troups. I'm sure there our times when you would not want to step on others toes by flexing your muscles but it happens. They are lucky the SWAT team was not sent in. In my county in VA, the county sheriffs office and the county police are always nitpicking with each other over who is responsible for what, they have even sued each other in the past for various things. This does not seem to be a very productive way of spending my tax dollars. Of course neither is over spending on a contract.
Moderators, yes this is off-topic, but it is a reply to another comment that you may not see because you are browsing at >=1.
I had this service similar to this for a few years when I lived in Hawaii. One inline conversion box and a splitter could easily run at least 3 televisions, broadband internet was not an option. It was excellent service and was priced about 5 bucks cheaper then the local cable company for roughly the same channels. The topography on Oahu allowed for decent line of sight coverage to many areas (round island with peaks in the center, hell its an old volcano). I do not know what frequency it used but the antenna was not dish shaped, it was an 18in directional pole aimed at the source. It did degrade slightly when it rained but still far more reliable then the wired service that we had. Thier service ended rather quickly though, must have ran out of money or the cable company bought it out. They never even came back to get the ant or the converter and my last months check for service was not cashed.
I searched Google for some old info but couldn't find much. Sniplet below is from an old Samba announcement page
(3rd June 2001) The German Samba Trademark problem has been solved. CMG has given a license to Service Network GmbH (SerNet), in this case representing the Open Source Community, to use the word Samba for the Open Source product. This license allows SerNet to issue sublicenses to all who sell or support Samba. More information can be found on samba.sernet.de
Maybe they used the MSN search engine (search.msn.com) where the first result returned is the BSA homepage, followed by a slew of FBI, Microsoft, and various other anti-piracy pages.
I'd say the MSN search is slightly askew, a sad attempt by MS to control information. Thank you Google.
So would I. Problem is that the RIAA promotes what it thinks will make money which may not be exactly what you like. There are many other good bands and alternative types of music out there but you may have to browse to find it. I do not view the increased choices as crappy, but an advantage.
This is an issue, only because the way the service packs are rolled into an OS/Web Server/Web Browser/Media Player/SQL/Messenger/Email/Office product/CD Burning fix is the issue. All other software makers seem to be able to fix thier products and applications with patches and updates. Has a Symantec Product or Eudora Email patch ever not worked because a user removed MS Instant messenger? At what point in the future will a MS EULA contain the statement that you are forbidden to run ANY non MS supplied applications or drivers or if you run any non MS applications or drivers you will get NO support and be denied further updates. All for the sake of compatibility.
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I am using a similar approach but since I am still on a dialup, I can only dialin to get remote access, which works but SLOW..
/home and the Win clients map the same homes through a login script. I use IMAP locally and Fetchmail for remote mail. I choose not to use roaming profiles in Windows but I still use domain logins and modified the resistry to store Favorites, My Documents, Temporary Int Files, Cookies, and a few others in the homes share also. K-meleon is just as easy. I have access to any of my files, email, bookmarks, Open Office docs, any fonts and whatever else I need from any Linux or Win computer in the house simply by logging in as myself.. I have a seperate share for my MP3's which are availble to all clients and NFS'd over to my web server where I use a php script called Andromeda to format and make them look nice from a web browser, there are tons that use SQL but I'm not that advanced yet.. /home and a few of the other smaller shares on the main server. My tape drive in only 2GB so I simply tgz it and send it over to my Linux web server weekly via cron.
I have roughly 10 computers in the house and 4 users.
I have one main Linux machine with several 40GB drives that basically holds everything for the Linux and Windows clients (some dual boot, some static) and the web server (another Linux machine).
The main Linux machine has Samba and NFS. All other Linux machines mount a single
The only thing I need to backup is
Most cellular plans in the US charge a fee for messages to a cell phone. This would result in a direct out of pocket expense that the consumer can see every month on thier phone bill. Junk email to your ISP costs money but it is not reflected directly in your monthly bill. Both cost money and resources that the consumer MUST pay for. I have not received SMS or email spam to any of my cell phones yet. When (not if) it starts it will be a royal pain in the a$$ and I will have to cancel the service completely. Laws for spam will not change until the increased cost is directly visible by the consumer.
You need local Linux support person as much as you need support for your MS, Novell, Cisco etc.. products. None of these products monitor, fix, and patch themselves to the extent they are untouchable. If your local Linux support person does not know how to use IRC or Google then you might want to look for another one. If you do not have a Linux person, or another tech less experienced in Unix is handling the problems, $200 a call may be a good deal and much needed.
A few years ago, the RIAA pushed for laws to protect them from "exact digital copies". They played this card for years claiming these exact digital copies were a problem killing the industry. Now they seemed to have changed thier mind and this was a ploy to set the stage for further restrictions. MP3's, movie bootlegs, and other derived sources are not even close to exact copies of the original. This seems to be what this legislation would prevent. Maybe they would like to return to the days when everyone chucked thier 8-tracks, albums only lasted a few years and tapes were destroyed by sticky mechanisms. People were re-buying the same thing over again. Almost a pay-per-view concept that would ensure a revenue stream or repeat buyers.
As others have stated...
They can create thier own technology and sell it to the consumers. Why should someone expect an entire industry to change for them? Sadly enough, the winner will be determined by the best lobbying effort..
I have found in me the urge to buy power tools
I am waiting for a cordless drill that is fully 802.11b compliant.
I do not have an opinion either way.. /. user you have a choice to mask stories from specific authors and specific topics when you enter /.
As a registered
If it bothers you that bad, check out your user info page and modify it to block what you don't like.
5 knots to nowhere...
At least the reactor protection systems had 8080's
Funny thing... ;)
I did the same exact thing for the job I am at now.. I softened the resume and started getting calls. My last job paid below average for what I was doing and the one I have now pays above average so in the end I'm not really making that much less. Of course now I deal with end users which I thought I'd never have to do again. Bottom line, it pays the bills and I am not under any pressure. I want to eventually move around again and I hope this job will not be a negative in the future, I'm trying to stay in the loop. I actually have fun calling the system administrator and telling him that the mail/file/backup/etc server is all jacked up again. Then I add a "maybe you should just reboot it again"
As with most issues of this nature..
If the story hits big, and big media starts questioning the practice, MS will claim that it was a programing error, it was changed but they actually have no plans to really share that data, or it was strictly an "accident" in preparing for some upcoming vapor feature they planned on adding or testing. Sorry..
If it doesnt hit big the plan will stay put and 99.9% of the users will never know.
Another reason I always use completely bogus information for these registration things.
You know.. /. headline for the article. Spent about 5 minutes reading various replies and comments about the article and I still had no real interest in actually reading the article. Then I read your comment which sparked my interest and I went and looked.
/. too much..
I read the
Now I know I have nolife and hang out on
I am waiting for the RIAA backed $20/month option from Verizon Wireless and Kazza to store 16MB worth of 56kbit/sec encoded music that you can stream to your phone for "access to your music anywhere, anytime".
yeah, the toliet is cool but how did you get an office with a window?
I agree with your priority statement but what do you mean by:
/.
/. cluster-f**k as much as anyone else. You are not here in some 'third party' stance looking in from the outside.. /. as anyone else is.
That's the problem with
You are included and a participant in the
I hate to break it to you but you are as much a part of
This happened in the past with the padding of the cell phone industry. Analog mode cell phones send clear audio over the air in roughly the 868-890 MHz range. To protect the cell phone industry, the government passed a law in 1994 to prevent the sale of consumer radio scanners from receiving these frequencies. That worked for a while but many scanners were easily 'hacked' to get this region back. In 1997 the law was modified/changed to make it illegal to modify a scanner and companies had to produce scanners that were tamper proof.
These air bands were open to public ears for decades before the cell phone industry came to life. They chose to use "plain text" audio for analog transmissions to save money with no regard for your privacy. The government stepped in to bail them out when scanning these frequencies became popular and to give the public a false sense of security so they would buy more of them and keep the cell phone industry going strong.
It is also illegal to listen to analog cordless phones (46-49MHz/900MHz) but there is no law preventing the scanners from receiving these bands. I guess the cordless guys could not drum up enough soft money to get that through.
X-Roadrunner-Status: It Sucks today and probably more tommorrow
or if you want your own organization use:
X-Organization: [Your company name]
Compact fluorescent bulbs are a very good alternative. They come in many shapes and sizes, last roughly 7000-10000 hours and use about 75% less power then incandescent. I've seen 5 packs of bulbs at warehouse clubs for under $19.
They are getting physically smaller and cheaper all the time.
I've bought and used these LED's before. You can find them cheap here.
I've built a few things with these and they are impressive. A solar cell, two AA rechargable batteries and one of these lights can be put to use just about anywhere.
What about Alchemy's response:
When contacted by Salon on April 26 about reports of malicious code at the IntelliTech sites, Alchemy's vice president Jamie Daquino said his position was Shut down first, ask questions later.
"For someone to get written up as a virus, that's pretty serious. If they're doing what people are saying, it's illegal. We don't want to be associated with that," said Daquino.
I hate to quote so much but this is scary. This is Alchemy's response based on some info from Salon? Without even checking with IntelliTech first they simply "pull the plug"? After reading the articles I formed my own opinion that IntelliTech is complete trash but what gives Alchemy the right to simply pull the plug? I assume they have an official step by step to deal with issues of this nature but they appear to not use them. Alchemy basically states that they don't know what IntelliTech is doing, did not bother to ask, but pulled the plug anyway.
Slashdot 101
Its not at the root. That is exactly why I had an include there stating it was reply. Not that I want to feed you but this happens all the time. People post a reply to an AK or a post that is modded at 0 or below.
If you are browsing 1+, ignoring AK's etc. You will not see the original and think that my reply is at the root or I get modded down for being off-topic or I am crazy and writing a reply to no one.
I'm not expert either.. This is simply an observation.
Different groups of law enforcement report to or get thier funding from different agencies. He who provides funding can direct the troups. I'm sure there our times when you would not want to step on others toes by flexing your muscles but it happens. They are lucky the SWAT team was not sent in.
In my county in VA, the county sheriffs office and the county police are always nitpicking with each other over who is responsible for what, they have even sued each other in the past for various things. This does not seem to be a very productive way of spending my tax dollars. Of course neither is over spending on a contract.
Moderators, yes this is off-topic, but it is a reply to another comment that you may not see because you are browsing at >=1.
I had this service similar to this for a few years when I lived in Hawaii. One inline conversion box and a splitter could easily run at least 3 televisions, broadband internet was not an option. It was excellent service and was priced about 5 bucks cheaper then the local cable company for roughly the same channels. The topography on Oahu allowed for decent line of sight coverage to many areas (round island with peaks in the center, hell its an old volcano). I do not know what frequency it used but the antenna was not dish shaped, it was an 18in directional pole aimed at the source. It did degrade slightly when it rained but still far more reliable then the wired service that we had. Thier service ended rather quickly though, must have ran out of money or the cable company bought it out. They never even came back to get the ant or the converter and my last months check for service was not cashed.
Actually.. Samba is trademarked in Germany.
I searched Google for some old info but couldn't find much. Sniplet below is from an old Samba announcement page
(3rd June 2001) The German Samba Trademark problem has been solved. CMG has given a license to Service Network GmbH (SerNet), in this case representing the Open Source Community, to use the word Samba for the Open Source product. This license allows SerNet to issue sublicenses to all who sell or support Samba. More information can be found on samba.sernet.de
Maybe they used the MSN search engine (search.msn.com) where the first result returned is the BSA homepage, followed by a slew of FBI, Microsoft, and various other anti-piracy pages.
I'd say the MSN search is slightly askew, a sad attempt by MS to control information. Thank you Google.
So would I. Problem is that the RIAA promotes what it thinks will make money which may not be exactly what you like. There are many other good bands and alternative types of music out there but you may have to browse to find it. I do not view the increased choices as crappy, but an advantage.
This is an issue, only because the way the service packs are rolled into an OS/Web Server/Web Browser/Media Player/SQL/Messenger/Email/Office product/CD Burning fix is the issue.
All other software makers seem to be able to fix thier products and applications with patches and updates. Has a Symantec Product or Eudora Email patch ever not worked because a user removed MS Instant messenger?
At what point in the future will a MS EULA contain the statement that you are forbidden to run ANY non MS supplied applications or drivers or if you run any non MS applications or drivers you will get NO support and be denied further updates. All for the sake of compatibility.