Prepare for ISP User Policy agreements to begin having some pretty mean two-way "hold harmless" clauses in them. You'll be made to agree that you, or any of your related parties, can not sue the ISP for any data they deliver to you which "harms" you in any way (i.e. your bible-thumping grandma, who is also a lawyer, has a heart attack due to seeing some shocking porn that pops up on your web browser while she's surfing on your computer and your ISP account and accidently mis-types a URL).
You'll also have to agree to accept legal responsibility for defending the ISP if any information eminating from your account or your actions (i.e. your personal web pages hosted on their server) "harms" anyone else, who sees them and decides to seek action against the ISP.
If you would pay for this service, then you'll also have to agree to have all your download transactions logged to a database. This will become inevitable. Who do you think will be interested in obtaining access to that database?
I've only got a lowly little old Sparc5, but I've tried Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 on it. Guess which one I kept? Solaris 7. It's the fastest of the bunch. They were all equally stable as far as I could tell. I recently got a copy of Solaris 8 for it, but haven't even bothered to install it.
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Prepare for ISP User Policy agreements to begin having some pretty mean two-way "hold harmless" clauses in them. You'll be made to agree that you, or any of your related parties, can not sue the ISP for any data they deliver to you which "harms" you in any way (i.e. your bible-thumping grandma, who is also a lawyer, has a heart attack due to seeing some shocking porn that pops up on your web browser while she's surfing on your computer and your ISP account and accidently mis-types a URL).
You'll also have to agree to accept legal responsibility for defending the ISP if any information eminating from your account or your actions (i.e. your personal web pages hosted on their server) "harms" anyone else, who sees them and decides to seek action against the ISP.
If you would pay for this service, then you'll also have to agree to have all your download transactions logged to a database. This will become inevitable. Who do you think will be interested in obtaining access to that database?
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I've only got a lowly little old Sparc5, but I've tried Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 on it. Guess which one I kept? Solaris 7. It's the fastest of the bunch. They were all equally stable as far as I could tell. I recently got a copy of Solaris 8 for it, but haven't even bothered to install it.
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