This is a bit offtopic, a company run by a man named Craig Nowak forged 'flowers.com' in the From: headers of a spam run and he was successfully sued by flowers.com, who were able to show damages resulting from being associated with spamming. Perhaps you could get a lawyer to subpoena the telephone company where the answering machine resides?
Also, to get back to the original story, this isn't the first time that an ISP has been sued by a spammer. In a somewhat different case, remember when Cyberpromo sued AOL for blocking their e-mail? That TRO was lifted as soon as it got to a higher court. I'm hoping that this restraining order is swiftly lifted by a more clued-in judge. Spammers are wretched scum who should be flayed alive and impaled and left to die in a desert somewhere.
Why can't you have everything, including / and/boot, be ReiserFS? True, 20MB isn't too bad for fsck and even if the partition gets trashed it's pretty easy to store a backup somewhere, but I do like consistency and I like keeping as few partitions on a physical drive as possible.
When SuSE first started supporting ReiserFS I installed it and it let me put everything on a Reiser partition...too bad the install only supported Reiser as a module:/
My NAT router is running 2.2.19. When I was setting it up I did a quick search and found several links to a ReiserFS kernel patch, which I was able to apply and compile without a hitch.
And ReiserFS is officially supported now, at least for the 2.4.x kernels. It's also nice not having so see fsck take so long in the unlikely event that your machine goes down improperly.
I've only had one problem with ReiserFS. I mount my/home directory on a different physical disk than my root filesystem, and for awhile after formatting and setting it up I would get inexplicably delays when I attempted to remotely access anything on it;connecting via ssh or ftp would make it access my user home directory and it would pause for several minutes and I have a SMB share on there as well, which would often time out when an initial connection was made.
I backed up the contents of/home, reformatted again and everything's been fine since.
Typically hitting 'setup.exe' brings you to the InstallShield Wizard installation method where you still have to click on 'Next' several times.
Not to mention that most filemanagers I've seen for linux will let you assign a RPM utility or frontend to.rpm files, so you'd still just be clicking on an icon, you'd just not have to click 'Next' a few times.
Hrmm...a coworker today brought up Corel Linux. I steered him toward RedHat or SuSE because I thought that Corel was leaving Linux altogether and didn't know what the future of the distro is.
Hate to get too far offtopic, but you asked permission to rest your BIOS? Why did you need to do that, or was it another warranty concern?
OEM crap like that is why I build my own computers. I don't want their preinstalled configurations, I want to define all of my own hardware setup and I don't see why I should pay extra for a preinstalled Windows 2000 when I already have a perfectly free copy available. Unfortunately, I'm in a minority; most people don't even know that they can build their own computers and many of those that do know and know enough to do it prefer the simplicity of a pre-built OEM PC. Still, I encourage my friends to look into self-assembly when possible (and I show them how much they save because they already have an OS lisence -- they just cease using it on their old machine) and offer to help build it with them to make it easier.
I won't say most -- since I don't have the personal experience -- but I do know that the broadband provider that I use, @Home, does not allow a customer to share their access with other households. The wording is specific enough to cover LAN connections (either wireless or running Cat-5 to your neighbour's house) and dial-up. Thus doing so would be violation of a civil contract. Even if there were no legal penalties, you'd probably find yourself without access once they found out (spiked bandwidth is a symptom of such setups, the tech who installed our modem relayed a story of a guy who sold dial-up access and was caught because of that)
They don't have any specific provisions against NAT within a single household, and I'd raise hell if they started going after it.
More ram and graphics card is nice, but faster processers are good for churning out the polygons. I'm using a Tbird 900 with 256MB of SDRAM and a GeForce 3 and my boyfriend has a Tbird 1.3Ghz with 256MB of DDR SDRAM and a GeForce 3 and there are noticable improvements on some of the more recent games (Max Payne, Giants).
Still, it's only tempted me to look into overclocking, not upgrading just yet (not until NForce)
Anyway, I'm not sure that even Windows (2000, dunno about XP since I don't plant to upgrade) will take advantage of the P4 over the P3. I do know that Linux can be optimized for Athlon processors and that gcc 3 supports optimization flags for athlon hardware, so I'll stick with what I know works:)
This would mean that Linux was conceived on August 25, but still not 'born' until September 17. I celebrate my birthday on December 25, not some day in March.
Though I imagine that this will spark some heated debate over when software is really functional. The die-hard extremists on one side will argue that it is the moment the first hash mark of the first include was typed and the extremists on the other will claim that the software isn't really there until the product is officially released.
The more rational people will realise that software probably begins its existance sometime around when it can actually be compiled.
Nice idea, too bad it looks awful.
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As others have seed, the current screenshots don't look very pretty (I did like the 'art of a confused 12-year old fanboy' comment).
I'm not opposed to a Zelda game taking a cartoon approach -- though I'd rather see a more realistic rendering method -- but I do hope that the character designs being shown were early prototypes and that the finished product will have a more anime look to it. Even if it looks like a cartoon, it could look like an epic-adventure type of cartoon rather than South Park.
Better go out and stock up on spindles of 100 (or more if you can find 'em) 80 minute CD-Rs. Might want to pick up a pack of 25 or more 80 minute CD-RWs as well. Might even be able to sell them at a profit (but still below whatever 'tax' Congress levies on them) if the RIAA gets their way.
I'd also better get a new CD-R drive (my current one is flaking out) before the RIAA forces all manufacturers to include copy-protection mechanisms in the devices.
Keep in mind that the DMCA offers both civil remedy to the copyright holder and criminal penalties against the violator. Also keep in mind what happened to a certain Russian programmer who wrote and sold, in Russia. software that was completely legal in Russia.
You could avoid the US for the rest of your life, but since direct copyright infringement (as opposed to cracking ROT13-based encryption) is probably frowned upon in the UK (and the MPAA likely has allies all over the world) you may still find yourself facing charges.
Well, perhaps a change to the basic ssh client? A two-key combination to start storing keystrokes into a buffer that all get sent at once when the 'Enter' key is pressed? (or the same two-key combo). It would be hard to guess keystrokes when the packets don't correspond to them.
Van Dyke Technology's ssh client for Windows uses a dialog box to ask for a password, so it likely wouldn't be vulnerable to this problem as well, at least not when logging in.
Boot disk. Install floppy disk made from an image downloaded from ftp://ftp.suse.com/.
From the 'setup' disk I was able to select 'emergency boot' (or some similar feature) in the options menu and it got me to a command prompt. From there I was able to mount the reiserfs filesystem and install a new kernel.
I don't think that I had to specifically load a reiserfs module (I did need to use the optional 'modules' disk -- also available from the ftp site -- to use my SCSI controller and network card). Just 'mount/dev/sda1/fixme' worked.
Actually, I ran into a problem when I first installed SuSE 7.1. I made my root partition reiserfs since SuSE claimed to support it out of the box. The kernel that SuSE installed did in fact support reiserfs -- as a module! Too bad it couldn't mount the filesystem to load the module.
Anyway, I fixed the problem by using SuSE's bootdisk to emergency boot the system and was able to download, configure and install a new working kernel. I dunno how well it would work with a different distro, but I think that you'd at least be able to mount the filesystem.
It's my understanding that IRC bots speak in phrases at best, not words. An AI that can put even simple sentences together from even a relatively short list of words sounds somewhat impressive.
Of course, I can barely parse C, so I'm certainly no AI or coding expert:)
...because I value both my broadband connection and my ability to connect a Linux box to it rather than some proprietary crap that only works under Windoze. I'd hate to have Excite@Home disappear and either have my local cable provider switch to another ISP or have to use a DSL connection that won't work unless I'm running a MS OS. Worse, I'd hate to have a provider that explicitly disallows NAT (and can somehow scan for it)
I find this news especially odd because my local cable provider recently lowered the rates for @Home customers (quite a surprising move, IMO).
I also considered moving from Windows to Linux for many of my gaming needs. I, however, payed attention to the information regarding the Linux Tribes 2 port and was well aware that the Windows CD would not be patchable and that a seperate Linux specific version would need to be purchased, so I waited. I also understood the reason: Loki doesn't work for free, and they won't make money if people buy the Windows versions and just slap a patch to make them run under Linux.
It was somewhat irritating that the Windows version was released several weeks earlier than the Linux version, though I did try the Windows version (borrowed a CD) under Windows 2000. The game, after three patches, would always crash with the oft-seen 'Unhandled Exception' error before I could play it. The Linux version, after installation, has played without a hitch every time.
Okay, that does work. Someone else suggested (and actually I'd done this earlier anyway) removing 'unsigned int' from a for loop declaration (which also removes the compile error). I got the idea by looking at the 2.4.8 code.
Is doing that going to be a bad thing with the ntfs updates? Which one is the 'correct' method -- I'm more likely to trust adding the #include line.
I mentioned this as a reply to someone else, but I was wondering if anyone else had trouble enabling NTFS (read-only) support. I dual-boot between Linux and Windows 2000 and while ntfs reading isn't vital, it's rather helpful at times.
I normally copmile as a module, but this time I get:
unistr.c: In function `ntfs_collate_names':
unistr.c:99: warning: implicit declaration of function `min'
unistr.c:99: parse error before `unsigned'
unistr.c:99: parse error before `)'
unistr.c:97: warning: `c1' might be used uninitialized in this function
unistr.c: At top level:
unistr.c:118: parse error before `if'
unistr.c:123: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `c1'
unistr.c:123: `name1' undeclared here (not in a function)
unistr.c:123: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
unistr.c:124: parse error before `if'
make[2]: *** [unistr.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/fs/ntfs'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ntfs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/fs'
make: *** [_mod_fs] Error 2
Compiling it in the kernel doesn't work either. Bleah, is this broken or did I forget to enable something else?
NTFS support (read only) seems to be broken completely, so no worries on it blowing up your filesystem this time. It fails to compile either in the kernel or as a module.
Of course, it could be something else that I'm doing wrong, often support breaks occur when you have specific features enabled/disabled along with the one you want that won't work.
I've been going through the firewall log on my NAT router (which for some strange reason has been hit with thousands of rejected attempts at port 80 after being online for only three days) and when I attempt to access a website at the IP whence the rejected packet came I get a 403 -- this is the case on numerous IPs. I have IIS installed at work and I know what the default page looks like, so I'm wondering what is installed and how it is configured on these peoples' machines, all of whom shouldn't be running network servers anyway as they violate the @Home AUP.
On another, perhaps more related, note: I took it upon myself to ask the webmaster where I work if he had taken precautions against Code Red (the company uses all MS-based systems); his response was 'huh, what's that?'.
Actually, the local cable company where I lived used to advertise their PPV service in a campaign to inform viewers that they did in fact have the right to make VHS copies of the content they purchased via PPV.
Spam is like someone spraypainting an advertisement on the side of your house, then sending you the bill for equipment and labour. Is that free speech?
Or, for a more accurate analogy wrt ISPs, it's like spraypainting an unsolicited advertisement on the side of an apartment building and charging the landlord.
Actually, I was under the impression that using threats of legal force (without the intent of filing) as a scare tactic can be construed as barratary, which is an actionable offense.
Of course, IANAL and I don't know all of the legal nuances involved, but I do know that running around threatening legal action just to shut people up isn't always a good idea if you do decide to make good on one of your threats.
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This is a bit offtopic, a company run by a man named Craig Nowak forged 'flowers.com' in the From: headers of a spam run and he was successfully sued by flowers.com, who were able to show damages resulting from being associated with spamming. Perhaps you could get a lawyer to subpoena the telephone company where the answering machine resides?
Also, to get back to the original story, this isn't the first time that an ISP has been sued by a spammer. In a somewhat different case, remember when Cyberpromo sued AOL for blocking their e-mail? That TRO was lifted as soon as it got to a higher court. I'm hoping that this restraining order is swiftly lifted by a more clued-in judge. Spammers are wretched scum who should be flayed alive and impaled and left to die in a desert somewhere.
Why can't you have everything, including / and /boot, be ReiserFS? True, 20MB isn't too bad for fsck and even if the partition gets trashed it's pretty easy to store a backup somewhere, but I do like consistency and I like keeping as few partitions on a physical drive as possible.
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When SuSE first started supporting ReiserFS I installed it and it let me put everything on a Reiser partition...too bad the install only supported Reiser as a module
My NAT router is running 2.2.19. When I was setting it up I did a quick search and found several links to a ReiserFS kernel patch, which I was able to apply and compile without a hitch.
/home directory on a different physical disk than my root filesystem, and for awhile after formatting and setting it up I would get inexplicably delays when I attempted to remotely access anything on it;connecting via ssh or ftp would make it access my user home directory and it would pause for several minutes and I have a SMB share on there as well, which would often time out when an initial connection was made.
/home, reformatted again and everything's been fine since.
And ReiserFS is officially supported now, at least for the 2.4.x kernels. It's also nice not having so see fsck take so long in the unlikely event that your machine goes down improperly.
I've only had one problem with ReiserFS. I mount my
I backed up the contents of
Typically hitting 'setup.exe' brings you to the InstallShield Wizard installation method where you still have to click on 'Next' several times.
.rpm files, so you'd still just be clicking on an icon, you'd just not have to click 'Next' a few times.
Not to mention that most filemanagers I've seen for linux will let you assign a RPM utility or frontend to
Hrmm...a coworker today brought up Corel Linux. I steered him toward RedHat or SuSE because I thought that Corel was leaving Linux altogether and didn't know what the future of the distro is.
I'd heard good things about it too, too bad.
Hate to get too far offtopic, but you asked permission to rest your BIOS? Why did you need to do that, or was it another warranty concern?
OEM crap like that is why I build my own computers. I don't want their preinstalled configurations, I want to define all of my own hardware setup and I don't see why I should pay extra for a preinstalled Windows 2000 when I already have a perfectly free copy available. Unfortunately, I'm in a minority; most people don't even know that they can build their own computers and many of those that do know and know enough to do it prefer the simplicity of a pre-built OEM PC. Still, I encourage my friends to look into self-assembly when possible (and I show them how much they save because they already have an OS lisence -- they just cease using it on their old machine) and offer to help build it with them to make it easier.
I won't say most -- since I don't have the personal experience -- but I do know that the broadband provider that I use, @Home, does not allow a customer to share their access with other households. The wording is specific enough to cover LAN connections (either wireless or running Cat-5 to your neighbour's house) and dial-up. Thus doing so would be violation of a civil contract. Even if there were no legal penalties, you'd probably find yourself without access once they found out (spiked bandwidth is a symptom of such setups, the tech who installed our modem relayed a story of a guy who sold dial-up access and was caught because of that)
They don't have any specific provisions against NAT within a single household, and I'd raise hell if they started going after it.
More ram and graphics card is nice, but faster processers are good for churning out the polygons. I'm using a Tbird 900 with 256MB of SDRAM and a GeForce 3 and my boyfriend has a Tbird 1.3Ghz with 256MB of DDR SDRAM and a GeForce 3 and there are noticable improvements on some of the more recent games (Max Payne, Giants).
:)
Still, it's only tempted me to look into overclocking, not upgrading just yet (not until NForce)
Anyway, I'm not sure that even Windows (2000, dunno about XP since I don't plant to upgrade) will take advantage of the P4 over the P3. I do know that Linux can be optimized for Athlon processors and that gcc 3 supports optimization flags for athlon hardware, so I'll stick with what I know works
This would mean that Linux was conceived on August 25, but still not 'born' until September 17. I celebrate my birthday on December 25, not some day in March.
Though I imagine that this will spark some heated debate over when software is really functional. The die-hard extremists on one side will argue that it is the moment the first hash mark of the first include was typed and the extremists on the other will claim that the software isn't really there until the product is officially released.
The more rational people will realise that software probably begins its existance sometime around when it can actually be compiled.
As others have seed, the current screenshots don't look very pretty (I did like the 'art of a confused 12-year old fanboy' comment).
I'm not opposed to a Zelda game taking a cartoon approach -- though I'd rather see a more realistic rendering method -- but I do hope that the character designs being shown were early prototypes and that the finished product will have a more anime look to it. Even if it looks like a cartoon, it could look like an epic-adventure type of cartoon rather than South Park.
(Not that I don't like South Park)
Better go out and stock up on spindles of 100 (or more if you can find 'em) 80 minute CD-Rs. Might want to pick up a pack of 25 or more 80 minute CD-RWs as well. Might even be able to sell them at a profit (but still below whatever 'tax' Congress levies on them) if the RIAA gets their way.
I'd also better get a new CD-R drive (my current one is flaking out) before the RIAA forces all manufacturers to include copy-protection mechanisms in the devices.
Keep in mind that the DMCA offers both civil remedy to the copyright holder and criminal penalties against the violator. Also keep in mind what happened to a certain Russian programmer who wrote and sold, in Russia. software that was completely legal in Russia.
You could avoid the US for the rest of your life, but since direct copyright infringement (as opposed to cracking ROT13-based encryption) is probably frowned upon in the UK (and the MPAA likely has allies all over the world) you may still find yourself facing charges.
Well, perhaps a change to the basic ssh client? A two-key combination to start storing keystrokes into a buffer that all get sent at once when the 'Enter' key is pressed? (or the same two-key combo). It would be hard to guess keystrokes when the packets don't correspond to them.
Van Dyke Technology's ssh client for Windows uses a dialog box to ask for a password, so it likely wouldn't be vulnerable to this problem as well, at least not when logging in.
Boot disk. Install floppy disk made from an image downloaded from ftp://ftp.suse.com/.
/dev/sda1 /fixme' worked.
From the 'setup' disk I was able to select 'emergency boot' (or some similar feature) in the options menu and it got me to a command prompt. From there I was able to mount the reiserfs filesystem and install a new kernel.
I don't think that I had to specifically load a reiserfs module (I did need to use the optional 'modules' disk -- also available from the ftp site -- to use my SCSI controller and network card). Just 'mount
Hmm..
Actually, I ran into a problem when I first installed SuSE 7.1. I made my root partition reiserfs since SuSE claimed to support it out of the box. The kernel that SuSE installed did in fact support reiserfs -- as a module! Too bad it couldn't mount the filesystem to load the module.
Anyway, I fixed the problem by using SuSE's bootdisk to emergency boot the system and was able to download, configure and install a new working kernel. I dunno how well it would work with a different distro, but I think that you'd at least be able to mount the filesystem.
It's my understanding that IRC bots speak in phrases at best, not words. An AI that can put even simple sentences together from even a relatively short list of words sounds somewhat impressive.
:)
Of course, I can barely parse C, so I'm certainly no AI or coding expert
...because I value both my broadband connection and my ability to connect a Linux box to it rather than some proprietary crap that only works under Windoze. I'd hate to have Excite@Home disappear and either have my local cable provider switch to another ISP or have to use a DSL connection that won't work unless I'm running a MS OS. Worse, I'd hate to have a provider that explicitly disallows NAT (and can somehow scan for it)
I find this news especially odd because my local cable provider recently lowered the rates for @Home customers (quite a surprising move, IMO).
I also considered moving from Windows to Linux for many of my gaming needs. I, however, payed attention to the information regarding the Linux Tribes 2 port and was well aware that the Windows CD would not be patchable and that a seperate Linux specific version would need to be purchased, so I waited. I also understood the reason: Loki doesn't work for free, and they won't make money if people buy the Windows versions and just slap a patch to make them run under Linux. It was somewhat irritating that the Windows version was released several weeks earlier than the Linux version, though I did try the Windows version (borrowed a CD) under Windows 2000. The game, after three patches, would always crash with the oft-seen 'Unhandled Exception' error before I could play it. The Linux version, after installation, has played without a hitch every time.
Okay, that does work. Someone else suggested (and actually I'd done this earlier anyway) removing 'unsigned int' from a for loop declaration (which also removes the compile error). I got the idea by looking at the 2.4.8 code. Is doing that going to be a bad thing with the ntfs updates? Which one is the 'correct' method -- I'm more likely to trust adding the #include line.
I mentioned this as a reply to someone else, but I was wondering if anyone else had trouble enabling NTFS (read-only) support. I dual-boot between Linux and Windows 2000 and while ntfs reading isn't vital, it's rather helpful at times.
I normally copmile as a module, but this time I get:
unistr.c: In function `ntfs_collate_names':
unistr.c:99: warning: implicit declaration of function `min'
unistr.c:99: parse error before `unsigned'
unistr.c:99: parse error before `)'
unistr.c:97: warning: `c1' might be used uninitialized in this function
unistr.c: At top level:
unistr.c:118: parse error before `if'
unistr.c:123: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `c1'
unistr.c:123: `name1' undeclared here (not in a function)
unistr.c:123: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
unistr.c:124: parse error before `if'
make[2]: *** [unistr.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/fs/ntfs'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_ntfs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.9/fs'
make: *** [_mod_fs] Error 2
Compiling it in the kernel doesn't work either. Bleah, is this broken or did I forget to enable something else?
NTFS support (read only) seems to be broken completely, so no worries on it blowing up your filesystem this time. It fails to compile either in the kernel or as a module. Of course, it could be something else that I'm doing wrong, often support breaks occur when you have specific features enabled/disabled along with the one you want that won't work.
I've been going through the firewall log on my NAT router (which for some strange reason has been hit with thousands of rejected attempts at port 80 after being online for only three days) and when I attempt to access a website at the IP whence the rejected packet came I get a 403 -- this is the case on numerous IPs. I have IIS installed at work and I know what the default page looks like, so I'm wondering what is installed and how it is configured on these peoples' machines, all of whom shouldn't be running network servers anyway as they violate the @Home AUP.
On another, perhaps more related, note: I took it upon myself to ask the webmaster where I work if he had taken precautions against Code Red (the company uses all MS-based systems); his response was 'huh, what's that?'.
Actually, the local cable company where I lived used to advertise their PPV service in a campaign to inform viewers that they did in fact have the right to make VHS copies of the content they purchased via PPV.
Spam is like someone spraypainting an advertisement on the side of your house, then sending you the bill for equipment and labour. Is that free speech? Or, for a more accurate analogy wrt ISPs, it's like spraypainting an unsolicited advertisement on the side of an apartment building and charging the landlord.
Actually, I was under the impression that using threats of legal force (without the intent of filing) as a scare tactic can be construed as barratary, which is an actionable offense.
Of course, IANAL and I don't know all of the legal nuances involved, but I do know that running around threatening legal action just to shut people up isn't always a good idea if you do decide to make good on one of your threats.