If this is true then wouldn't bolt cutters be considered a circumvention device also. Geuss they better invoke the DMCA and sue the hardware stores to remove bolt cutters from their inventory. Or better yet, sue the manufactures..
Although I am opposed to adding more charges to my phone bill, I almost wouldn't mind if verizon added an extra 10 cents to my phone bill to defend against RIAA attacks.
I don't use my ISPs SMTP server, I grew tired of it always being down and or getting tons of spam. So I set up my own SMTP server here at home, I filter spam by blocking whole sub nets and entire domains (like aol.com). Relaying is NOT allowed except from my machines and I don't get spam addresed to non-existant users on my e-mail server.
Yeah it can be a pain to admin but I enjoy working on it and just haven't gone the DNS-SBL from SPEWS route yet..
Besides, I get a real kick from reading the mail logs:)
With all the "could be used to pirate music" tax being applied to just about all media I buy, I say the RIAA needs a seirous wake up call. Taxing ISP is just as stupid as taxing floppies, CD-R/DVD-R, video/audio tape, flash cards, hard drives, DIMMS and now your ISP all because they "could" be used to pirate music. Why not go one step futher and tax the phone company so they can add it to the mile long list of taxes that appear on my phone bill each month.
I haven't bought a music CD in about four years now. The only exception was a CD I bought off the Headpins fan site. Hillary, I have only two words for you... FUCK OFF!
I have been using IDE drives for years, shure they have come a long way but I feel SCSI is much better. I have had several IDE drives fail months of years after purchase, but my SCSI drives in my Sun boxes still keep on working. And even the old drives in my Ultra 2 give the ATA 100s in my linux box a run for their money.
I'll gladly spend more for drives that have MTBFs of a 1,000,000 hours over IDEs 100,000 or so.
It's good to see Linux expanding into the telco enviroment. There is a local group of hams here in northwest washington that have a small tcp/ip network using packet radio that I am a part of. All of the machines are old dell p133 boxes bought from boeing surplus running suse linux, uptimes have been as long as 3 years. I'm sure windows machines wouldn't be able to run that long. I have never been able to get NT to have uptimes of more that 2 or 3 months without having to reboot for one reason or another...
It's just like anything else. You could blow your money on computers, HDTV, cars etc. Amateur radio has been around a long time and I enjoy it as much as working with linux, solaris and Sun boxen.
When the internet goes down and or the cell phones quit working, I can always depend on amateur radio to pass the traffic when all else fails. Ham radio was used during and after the world trade center attack because all regular communications systems were not operational (public service, cell phones, etc).
There's nothing like the thrill of working a distant station on HF under less than ideal conditions. It's like the thrill one would get after hacking a government computer, and giving yourself the refund you deserve;p
Look guys/gals, I have been using sendmail for years and I have had no problems with it that couldn't be solved by tweaking the config files. I like this hands on aproach because it gives me a chance to tinker with things..
Why don't they just buy back the XENIX source from SCO and rebuild it from the ground up? My employer still runs XENIX for their UNIX development. But with the lack of hardware support(no ide dma,or 100mbit ethernet support) and keeping partition sizes >2Gb it's in need of some serious updating.
I've even tried to get them to try Linux, but getting them to do that has been as difficult as asking the sun to quit fusing hydrogen into helium...
Slap together an old machine. I recently had a trip through memory lane a few weeks ago with DOOM. I went to the local second hand store and bought 3 old pentiums for 10 dollars.
Out of the 3 I had a working AST 5166 pentium 166 with 64 megs of ram. I even installed a network card and a old version of Archane(a web browser for DOS). Loaded DOOM, Quake, Duke Nuke'm 3D, and Jazz Jackrabbit. Back when I played these games the best I was able to muster were 486 machines (a DX2 66 and a AMD 120)
Works just fine and I don't have to try to run these on my main machine..
Considering the distance this is realy good for about 10 watts of RF. I would say that the difficulty in hearing the signal is a combination of path loss (well over -130dBm), man made noise, as well as the noise generated by nearby stars and planets.
Of course, if we used computers that lasted this long we'd still be CLI only...
In my exerience most unix/linux users are NOT like this. I find that most are very helpfull in solving various problems. Sure, some may have attitudes but I find this more true among windows users..
You are correct, I remember when Microsoft was pushing Xenix adds around the time of Windows 3.1. In fact, my employer still uses Xenix and SCO Open Server (another Microsoft product).
You can bet your ass if they called it Windows, Bill Gates lawyers would be on them like stink on shit claiming that people would mistake it for the OS. I haven't seen the movie Solaris yet but the tv commercial did get my attention since I am a Solaris user.
At least no one lost their life in this fire. Well, unless you are a server. Hopefully this will turn out to be an accident and not arson or botched terrorist act. It always bums me out when inocent servers lose their lives;)
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This will provide some interesting propagation on the VHF and UHF ham bands. Hopefully I'll be able to stay awake long enough to work a few stations on the ionized trails the meteors leave behind..
buy one of these disks or even rent one (not even if my favorite movies are avaliable on these disks). The RIAA and MPAA will be gone in less than 50 years. When you insult your cutomers by the "we know what's best for you" attitude, they quit buying.
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I have a fujitsu speed port modem, do these have the same problem????
If this is true then wouldn't bolt cutters be considered a circumvention device also. Geuss they better invoke the DMCA and sue the hardware stores to remove bolt cutters from their inventory. Or better yet, sue the manufactures..
DMCA- The most abused legislation on the planet..
Although I am opposed to adding more charges to my phone bill, I almost wouldn't mind if verizon added an extra 10 cents to my phone bill to defend against RIAA attacks.
I don't use my ISPs SMTP server, I grew tired of it always being down and or getting tons of spam. So I set up my own SMTP server here at home, I filter spam by blocking whole sub nets and entire domains (like aol.com). Relaying is NOT allowed except from my machines and I don't get spam addresed to non-existant users on my e-mail server.
:)
Yeah it can be a pain to admin but I enjoy working on it and just haven't gone the DNS-SBL from SPEWS route yet..
Besides, I get a real kick from reading the mail logs
With all the "could be used to pirate music" tax being applied to just about all media I buy, I say the RIAA needs a seirous wake up call. Taxing ISP is just as stupid as taxing floppies, CD-R/DVD-R, video/audio tape, flash cards, hard drives, DIMMS and now your ISP all because they "could" be used to pirate music. Why not go one step futher and tax the phone company so they can add it to the mile long list of taxes that appear on my phone bill each month.
I haven't bought a music CD in about four years now. The only exception was a CD I bought off the Headpins fan site. Hillary, I have only two words for you... FUCK OFF!
I have been using IDE drives for years, shure they have come a long way but I feel SCSI is much better. I have had several IDE drives fail months of years after purchase, but my SCSI drives in my Sun boxes still keep on working. And even the old drives in my Ultra 2 give the ATA 100s in my linux box a run for their money.
I'll gladly spend more for drives that have MTBFs of a 1,000,000 hours over IDEs 100,000 or so.
It's good to see Linux expanding into the telco enviroment. There is a local group of hams here in northwest washington that have a small tcp/ip network using packet radio that I am a part of. All of the machines are old dell p133 boxes bought from boeing surplus running suse linux, uptimes have been as long as 3 years. I'm sure windows machines wouldn't be able to run that long. I have never been able to get NT to have uptimes of more that 2 or 3 months without having to reboot for one reason or another...
It's just like anything else. You could blow your money on computers, HDTV, cars etc. Amateur radio has been around a long time and I enjoy it as much as working with linux, solaris and Sun boxen.
;p
When the internet goes down and or the cell phones quit working, I can always depend on amateur radio to pass the traffic when all else fails. Ham radio was used during and after the world trade center attack because all regular communications systems were not operational (public service, cell phones, etc).
There's nothing like the thrill of working a distant station on HF under less than ideal conditions. It's like the thrill one would get after hacking a government computer, and giving yourself the refund you deserve
Don't be so sure, LinuxBIOS will probally fall into the same problem as DeCSS code..
It's now official, I will never buy another motherboard with AMI bios!!
On the otherhand I'm finished with consumer grade computer hardware.
Look guys/gals, I have been using sendmail for years and I have had no problems with it that couldn't be solved by tweaking the config files. I like this hands on aproach because it gives me a chance to tinker with things..
To check out some of that history go here...
Doug Engelbarts 1968 demo
Engelbarts Unfinished Revolution
Why don't they just buy back the XENIX source from SCO and rebuild it from the ground up? My employer still runs XENIX for their UNIX development. But with the lack of hardware support(no ide dma,or 100mbit ethernet support) and keeping partition sizes >2Gb it's in need of some serious updating.
I've even tried to get them to try Linux, but getting them to do that has been as difficult as asking the sun to quit fusing hydrogen into helium...
Dosen't this chip consist of multiple dies tied together with interconnects on one heat spreader?
Just wondering
Slap together an old machine. I recently had a trip through memory lane a few weeks ago with DOOM. I went to the local second hand store and bought 3 old pentiums for 10 dollars.
Out of the 3 I had a working AST 5166 pentium 166 with 64 megs of ram. I even installed a network card and a old version of Archane(a web browser for DOS). Loaded DOOM, Quake, Duke Nuke'm 3D, and Jazz Jackrabbit. Back when I played these games the best I was able to muster were 486 machines (a DX2 66 and a AMD 120)
Works just fine and I don't have to try to run these on my main machine..
Considering the distance this is realy good for about 10 watts of RF. I would say that the difficulty in hearing the signal is a combination of path loss (well over -130dBm), man made noise, as well as the noise generated by nearby stars and planets.
Of course, if we used computers that lasted this long we'd still be CLI only...
do they have a version for Solaris and SuSe??? ;)
In my exerience most unix/linux users are NOT like this. I find that most are very helpfull in solving various problems. Sure, some may have attitudes but I find this more true among windows users..
You are correct, I remember when Microsoft was pushing Xenix adds around the time of Windows 3.1. In fact, my employer still uses Xenix and SCO Open Server (another Microsoft product).
I'd like to know also, it's slower than dial-up
For me to take advantage of this two things need to happen.
1. My internet provider is going to have to remove the 1 gig a month limit (if real expects to download movies).
2. Verizon is going to have to provide 1.5 m/bit or faster connection for the price of my current 768/128 k/bit connection..
You can bet your ass if they called it Windows, Bill Gates lawyers would be on them like stink on shit claiming that people would mistake it for the OS. I haven't seen the movie Solaris yet but the tv commercial did get my attention since I am a Solaris user.
At least no one lost their life in this fire. Well, unless you are a server. Hopefully this will turn out to be an accident and not arson or botched terrorist act. It always bums me out when inocent servers lose their lives ;)
This will provide some interesting propagation on the VHF and UHF ham bands. Hopefully I'll be able to stay awake long enough to work a few stations on the ionized trails the meteors leave behind..
buy one of these disks or even rent one (not even if my favorite movies are avaliable on these disks). The RIAA and MPAA will be gone in less than 50 years. When you insult your cutomers by the "we know what's best for you" attitude, they quit buying.