I wouldn't be so sure. XPostFacto is still going strong with no threat of legal action from Apple whatsoever, and I gather there are numerous happy users of OS X, running it on their old 7300/7500/7600/8500/8600/9500/9600 series PowerMacs via XPostFacto. Then again, the XPostFacto people (person?) can probably get away with it since they're not directly modifying Apple's code, just distributing an extension (or kernel module, if you prefer) using known APIs. Presumably XPostFacto's theoretical x86 analogue would do the same.
Then again, the situation's not exactly the same -- at least in the case of people running OS X on upgraded legacy Macs, they've already paid Apple's hardware tax.
Don't get all excited just yet. Even if this came to fruition, it would almost certainly be on a very narrow subset of x86 (apple-controlled) hardware - not just something you could buy in a box and install on your existing generic box.
I'd bet that within weeks of a hypothetical OS X x86 release, if it ran only on Apple-built x86 hardware, someone would create an XPostFacto-type utility to allow it to run on non-Apple x86 hardware.
BasiliskII (Google for it, I'm too lazy to find a link) has worked fairly well for me. Note, however, that it only emulates 68k Macs and requires a valid Mac ROM image.
1) Use those DDoS attacks on the Taliban and the terrorists. Block out their news, their proproganda. Stick it to their networks so they can't share information. At the same time reroute any pro-fundamentalist web pages to sites that promote more moderate approaches and demonstrate the stupidity behind radicalism. Show them the truth, at the same time you're snuffing out the lies.
DDoS? Hell, all you need is some scissors to cut the string linking their two tin cans together.
High-availability? High-speed? You've never actually USED an Internet connection at an SC school, have you? In the school district of Aiken County (which is -- I shit you not -- about the size of Rhode Island), school Internet connections are well-nigh useless because of the massive number of people using them (in the district, there's about 30,000 students, faculty and staff) at any given time. ALL HTTP traffic from every school in the Consolidated School District of Aiken County is filtered through a single proxy server (yes, just one) on a T1 running Bess (N2H2 claims that their "high capacity, clustered appliances" [translation: Linux boxes running a hacked version of Squid]scale to "tens of thousands of users", but as far as I can tell from my experience, they're full of shit). And of course there are enough people browsing the web at any given time that the T1 is almost completely saturated.
So while there is a statewide backbone that all schools can hook up to, as long as they all have to filter their traffic like this, it's pretty useless.
Secondly, those with broadband already have easy sources for movies currently in theaters or just released on DVD. Kazaa, Gnutella, Hotline, FTP, IRC, etc...
Easy sources? Have you ever actually tried getting anything, especially a movie, from any of those sources? It's practically a Sisyphean task.
In fact, you can still get a bridged setup if you're willing to pay for the external modem (or buy one) and the extra fee for a truck roll and installation on site.
That's not true. At least, not in the way that most BellSouth users would think when they hear the term "bridged". All new BellSouth DSL installs are PPPoE. You can no longer get DHCP service. It is, however, a bridged connection insofar as your modem serves as a bridge from your Ethernet to BellSouth's ATM network.
PPPoE has nothing to do with availability. It's just PPP over Ethernet (hence the name, PPPoE) and it basically just allows lazy ISPs to use their existing RADIUS servers for their DSL customers. It's not going to make DSL go anywhere it can't already go.
On the various *nix machines I use where I can use zsh (yay programmable completion!): [arianne:~] michael% echo $PROMPT
[%m:%~] %n%%
Or, in case of bash: [arianne:~] michael$ echo $PS1
[\h:\w] \u\$
In related news, it has now been scientifically determined that "now the RIAA can deprive us of some basic facet of everyday life" trolls, are, in fact, no longer funny.
It's also worth noting that LiveJournal does let you export your journal to a text file (though comments and current-whatever metadata aren't part of that afaik).
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I wouldn't be so sure. XPostFacto is still going strong with no threat of legal action from Apple whatsoever, and I gather there are numerous happy users of OS X, running it on their old 7300/7500/7600/8500/8600/9500/9600 series PowerMacs via XPostFacto. Then again, the XPostFacto people (person?) can probably get away with it since they're not directly modifying Apple's code, just distributing an extension (or kernel module, if you prefer) using known APIs. Presumably XPostFacto's theoretical x86 analogue would do the same.
Then again, the situation's not exactly the same -- at least in the case of people running OS X on upgraded legacy Macs, they've already paid Apple's hardware tax.
BasiliskII (Google for it, I'm too lazy to find a link) has worked fairly well for me. Note, however, that it only emulates 68k Macs and requires a valid Mac ROM image.
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Latecomer? Who's the latecomer now?
(Sorry, whenever people start a low-UID dick-waving contest, I just feel like I have to say something...)
UID 279, baby.
Of course, I have nothing useful to add to the discussion. :P
High-availability? High-speed? You've never actually USED an Internet connection at an SC school, have you? In the school district of Aiken County (which is -- I shit you not -- about the size of Rhode Island), school Internet connections are well-nigh useless because of the massive number of people using them (in the district, there's about 30,000 students, faculty and staff) at any given time. ALL HTTP traffic from every school in the Consolidated School District of Aiken County is filtered through a single proxy server (yes, just one) on a T1 running Bess (N2H2 claims that their "high capacity, clustered appliances" [translation: Linux boxes running a hacked version of Squid]scale to "tens of thousands of users", but as far as I can tell from my experience, they're full of shit). And of course there are enough people browsing the web at any given time that the T1 is almost completely saturated.
So while there is a statewide backbone that all schools can hook up to, as long as they all have to filter their traffic like this, it's pretty useless.
Easy sources? Have you ever actually tried getting anything, especially a movie, from any of those sources? It's practically a Sisyphean task.
That's not true. At least, not in the way that most BellSouth users would think when they hear the term "bridged". All new BellSouth DSL installs are PPPoE. You can no longer get DHCP service. It is, however, a bridged connection insofar as your modem serves as a bridge from your Ethernet to BellSouth's ATM network.
PPPoE has nothing to do with availability. It's just PPP over Ethernet (hence the name, PPPoE) and it basically just allows lazy ISPs to use their existing RADIUS servers for their DSL customers. It's not going to make DSL go anywhere it can't already go.
There are some things reason can't buy. For everything else, there's gullible PHBs.
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On the various *nix machines I use where I can use zsh (yay programmable completion!):
[arianne:~] michael% echo $PROMPT
[%m:%~] %n%%
Or, in case of bash:
[arianne:~] michael$ echo $PS1
[\h:\w] \u\$
On Windows:
C:\WINDOWS>echo %PROMPT%
$p$g
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In related news, it has now been scientifically determined that "now the RIAA can deprive us of some basic facet of everyday life" trolls, are, in fact, no longer funny.
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Of course, he's fucked either way.
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It's also worth noting that LiveJournal does let you export your journal to a text file (though comments and current-whatever metadata aren't part of that afaik).
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I think he was trying to make an analogy.
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http://lm.lcs.mit.edu/
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... Is that a weapon of mass destruction in your pants or are you just happy to see me? ...
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You might want to look at this. It's a list of NOC contacts for many major providers.
I don't know how up-to-date it is, though.
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3138...don't know.
3306 is mysql.
6010/6011 are probably X (but I could be wrong)
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Reverse-importing... wouldn't that be exporting?
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