Speaking of 500GB RAID arrays, I just picked up 2 of them (RAID 6) for $110 total. StorageTek 9393-600 DASD/SVA.
Eh, if he's a college student, then while it's still not legal or acceptable, it's slightly more understandable. There aren't many college students who can afford to purchase copies of 2003 Enterprise Server and the latest Office suit.
Heh. No. I got out of it about 3 years before they started enforcing penalties.
It's called, I started making money, joined a professional organization with a code of ethics, and found it to be both (1) not difficult and (2) beneficial to follow it.
"I have a fetish for breaking copyright law. Music, movies, apps, games, you name it, I've pirated it. I have so much of it that I can't fit it on my hard drive, so I burn it to CDs (soon to be DVDs) and sometimes sell it to my friends and other people over the Internet. CDs are becoming too expensive, so I'm looking for a cheaper way to store more illegal content for less money. Thanks!!!!"
That's what I got out of it (coming from someone who used to be pretty involved with a distribution site for illegal software, and now has current and valid licenses for every MS product that I use)
that these patents cover FAT32 used in >1GB Flash cards, not the FAT12/FAT16 used on smaller cards.
FAT32 is much more recent and hence is still covered under patents, and it's not one of those "out for 8 years, starts enforcing on the nineth"
it's probably closer to, out for 5 years but never used by anything other than the owner, now other people are starting to use it, so it's going to be enforced.
a much less evil method of patent enforcement than other corporations have done.
I've spotted 80186 chips manufactured as late as 1992...Pulled one out of a concentrator expansion board a few weeks ago, saw "C80186" on the chip, and was like WTF?
Handwriting is tough...I went through elementary school and such with teachers who couldn't deal with my left-handedness, so, they taught me how to hold a pencil wrong and write wrong.
Result: Handwriting so bad, even I couldn't read what it said more than an hour after I wrote it down.
I've slowly and painfully forced myself to improve, mainly by totally changing the actual symbols I write with. No more messy lowercase letters, no more joined letters...I exclusively write in small-caps in a very square fashion, with some speed/style conventions like leaving off strokes from common, easily recognized letters.
Result: Now my writing is readable. Not great but it looks "neat" and "professional" and it's readable by everyone.
That realtek "junk" has a more versatile driver than pretty much anything else I've seen...Case in point:
At a school (TSTC) we were given a single ethernet drop. Problem: It's keyed to a Widows 98 machine's MAC address that doesn't exist with us. We know the MAC that needs to be cloned.
My laptop's Broadcom chipset can't do it. Another laptop's Intel chipset can't do it. A third laptop's 3Com can't do it. Neither could his Linksys.
A fourth person's crappy Realtek chipset NIC was the only one that could do MAC cloning out of the batch.
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The company I work for has that exact problem...we're afraid to send out or legitimate newsletter to people who have requested to receive it, for fear that one person who doesn't want it will have slipped through the cracks in our database and will sue us into bankruptcy.
If you own a hard copy of the song, you're allowed to (IIRC) maintain as many seperate copies of that song, on any media, provided you're only using any one of them at a given time.
so, if they can you for downloading the new Fuel album but you own the physical CD -- they're violating the provisions of US copyright law. You should get a lawyer or something.
Some science fiction I wrote a few years back (never cleaned it up enough to be published, but there's at least enough material for a novel or two) dealt exactly with that...it was set very, very far in the future (year 6000 or something) but without very "advanced" technology. No exponential multiplications of the speed of light, no teleportation devices, etc. (a "realistic" future vision.)
A large section dealt with two major companies with shipyards for constructing warships for the various planetary, provincial, system, and private entities who wanted to purchase them. Of course, they also used these shipyards to construct their own warships, for use in their "security" forces. Which eventually led to competing shipyard corporations attacking each other's facilities and engaging in full-out space battles.
With no government in their region controlling them, it was total chaos, but it fell into a kind of equilirium after a while, with the coroprations raiding their competitors outlying facilities and repair stations, without attacking their headquarters.
Just a random thought on the subject from a random person...
I'm 18 and have 3...my room doubles as the datacenter for the home network, serving out Internet to my sister, mother, and father's machines, and keeping their data backed up.
I've been caught with porn so many times in my childhood (from 13-16 or so) that it's not even funny...I always blamed it on computer viruses and stuff, parents either bought it or didn't press the issue. Now that their opinions really don't carry weight of law any more, they don't even ask about what I do.
You're probably right about the fact that it's not 5 full channels...Generally, if I recall correctly, there is a full-bandwidth "front" channel, a full-bandwidth "rear" channel, and a full-bandwidth "center" channel (subwoofer usually is on the center also.)
Then, there are smaller "delta" channels, which split the front-mono into front-left and front-right by measuring their differences.
The center is full bandwidth because it is single-channel.
The 2003-series of Office is mostly rewritten from the ground up.
Frontpage got a total rewrite to produce standards-compliant autogen code.
Outlook got a complete rewrite in terms of its behavior, security controls, integration functions, etc.
Word had a ton of new useful stuff added (machine translations between about a dozen languages, link to buy a human translation, complete dictionaries and thesauruses in several languages and texts.)
and also integrated OCR and standard-compliant document-image-writer apps.
Pretty new and innovative, even to my cynical opinion.
Any device that speaks UPnP (most commonly, system services) can talk to a UPnP-complaint router, and have port forwarding automatically opened for it.
This is good for a lot of stuff...takes the guesswork out of port forwarding for apps that support it.
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Is it perma-burnin or jsut temporary burn in?
If the status and menus go away after an hour, and won't cause any permanant damage, that's fine...I can deal with that.
If they stick forever, that'd piss me off.
Use a shell app that sends a WoL packet to the system, executed using the php shell_exec("command") operator.
That'll turn the system on, then, VNC as necessary.
To turn off, VNC in and click shutdown or shutdown -k now or w/e.
There really, really isn't one.
There already exist C and C++ Compliers for these calculators; they also read ASM programs.
Why do we need an open source OS that removes the math functions?
Calculators should do math, hold periodic tables and simple text files, and *maybe* some phone numbers.
That's it.
I'm not sure you were a worthwhile human being...and that's my serious opinion, so I'm posting it without the shield of AC to hide behind.
Local surplus auction...wanna buy one of them? e-mail me.
Speaking of 500GB RAID arrays, I just picked up 2 of them (RAID 6) for $110 total. StorageTek 9393-600 DASD/SVA.
Eh, if he's a college student, then while it's still not legal or acceptable, it's slightly more understandable. There aren't many college students who can afford to purchase copies of 2003 Enterprise Server and the latest Office suit.
Too stupid not to get caught?
Heh. No. I got out of it about 3 years before they started enforcing penalties.
It's called, I started making money, joined a professional organization with a code of ethics, and found it to be both (1) not difficult and (2) beneficial to follow it.
To summarize the submitter's comments:
"I have a fetish for breaking copyright law. Music, movies, apps, games, you name it, I've pirated it. I have so much of it that I can't fit it on my hard drive, so I burn it to CDs (soon to be DVDs) and sometimes sell it to my friends and other people over the Internet. CDs are becoming too expensive, so I'm looking for a cheaper way to store more illegal content for less money. Thanks!!!!"
That's what I got out of it (coming from someone who used to be pretty involved with a distribution site for illegal software, and now has current and valid licenses for every MS product that I use)
I just took my final in ECO 2013 Principles of Macroeconomics today, actually.
Just felt like mentioning that.
that these patents cover FAT32 used in >1GB Flash cards, not the FAT12/FAT16 used on smaller cards.
FAT32 is much more recent and hence is still covered under patents, and it's not one of those "out for 8 years, starts enforcing on the nineth"
it's probably closer to, out for 5 years but never used by anything other than the owner, now other people are starting to use it, so it's going to be enforced.
a much less evil method of patent enforcement than other corporations have done.
I've spotted 80186 chips manufactured as late as 1992...Pulled one out of a concentrator expansion board a few weeks ago, saw "C80186" on the chip, and was like WTF?
but it's true. very popular for embedded apps.
What's going to be able to record for very long at 8.9 GB/hr?
At that rate, a 200gb hard drive would be good for about 1 full day's stored programming -- less if you're trying to timeshift live TV.
Doesn't change the fact that in the end, Packard Bell went out of business, and are relegated to being remembered in references like the ones I made.
E911 bothers me...I don't want my phone to be able to broadcast it's GPS coordinates to anyone who wants them.
Is there anywhere that sells phones with GPS/E911 disabled?
Handwriting is tough...I went through elementary school and such with teachers who couldn't deal with my left-handedness, so, they taught me how to hold a pencil wrong and write wrong.
Result: Handwriting so bad, even I couldn't read what it said more than an hour after I wrote it down.
I've slowly and painfully forced myself to improve, mainly by totally changing the actual symbols I write with. No more messy lowercase letters, no more joined letters...I exclusively write in small-caps in a very square fashion, with some speed/style conventions like leaving off strokes from common, easily recognized letters.
Result: Now my writing is readable. Not great but it looks "neat" and "professional" and it's readable by everyone.
That realtek "junk" has a more versatile driver than pretty much anything else I've seen...Case in point:
At a school (TSTC) we were given a single ethernet drop. Problem: It's keyed to a Widows 98 machine's MAC address that doesn't exist with us. We know the MAC that needs to be cloned.
My laptop's Broadcom chipset can't do it.
Another laptop's Intel chipset can't do it.
A third laptop's 3Com can't do it. Neither could his Linksys.
A fourth person's crappy Realtek chipset NIC was the only one that could do MAC cloning out of the batch.
The company I work for has that exact problem...we're afraid to send out or legitimate newsletter to people who have requested to receive it, for fear that one person who doesn't want it will have slipped through the cracks in our database and will sue us into bankruptcy.
If you own a hard copy of the song, you're allowed to (IIRC) maintain as many seperate copies of that song, on any media, provided you're only using any one of them at a given time.
so, if they can you for downloading the new Fuel album but you own the physical CD -- they're violating the provisions of US copyright law. You should get a lawyer or something.
Some science fiction I wrote a few years back (never cleaned it up enough to be published, but there's at least enough material for a novel or two) dealt exactly with that...it was set very, very far in the future (year 6000 or something) but without very "advanced" technology. No exponential multiplications of the speed of light, no teleportation devices, etc. (a "realistic" future vision.)
A large section dealt with two major companies with shipyards for constructing warships for the various planetary, provincial, system, and private entities who wanted to purchase them. Of course, they also used these shipyards to construct their own warships, for use in their "security" forces. Which eventually led to competing shipyard corporations attacking each other's facilities and engaging in full-out space battles.
With no government in their region controlling them, it was total chaos, but it fell into a kind of equilirium after a while, with the coroprations raiding their competitors outlying facilities and repair stations, without attacking their headquarters.
Just a random thought on the subject from a random person...
I'm 18 and have 3...my room doubles as the datacenter for the home network, serving out Internet to my sister, mother, and father's machines, and keeping their data backed up.
I've been caught with porn so many times in my childhood (from 13-16 or so) that it's not even funny...I always blamed it on computer viruses and stuff, parents either bought it or didn't press the issue. Now that their opinions really don't carry weight of law any more, they don't even ask about what I do.
You're probably right about the fact that it's not 5 full channels...Generally, if I recall correctly, there is a full-bandwidth "front" channel, a full-bandwidth "rear" channel, and a full-bandwidth "center" channel (subwoofer usually is on the center also.)
Then, there are smaller "delta" channels, which split the front-mono into front-left and front-right by measuring their differences.
The center is full bandwidth because it is single-channel.
The 2003-series of Office is mostly rewritten from the ground up.
Frontpage got a total rewrite to produce standards-compliant autogen code.
Outlook got a complete rewrite in terms of its behavior, security controls, integration functions, etc.
Word had a ton of new useful stuff added (machine translations between about a dozen languages, link to buy a human translation, complete dictionaries and thesauruses in several languages and texts.)
and also integrated OCR and standard-compliant document-image-writer apps.
Pretty new and innovative, even to my cynical opinion.
Yep. That's very possible.
Security and automatic setup are often contradictory, although I'll take the automatic setup any day and worry about maintaining my own security.
That my friend, is UPnP, Universal Plug and Play.
Any device that speaks UPnP (most commonly, system services) can talk to a UPnP-complaint router, and have port forwarding automatically opened for it.
This is good for a lot of stuff...takes the guesswork out of port forwarding for apps that support it.
It's not neferious at all.
At the end of the movie Final Fantasy, my girlfriend at the time asked me, "That looked so perfect, are you sure it wasn't done with a computer?"
She didn't believe me when I told her, yes, in fact, it was.