My initial reaction when reading this story was to stand up for the ISPs - say something along the same lines as most other people here...
HOWEVER, if I had a choice between another attack on the scale of Sept 11th, and my ISP holding my logs (and the chance that someone might look through them), I'd be quite happy to let anyone look at the logs.
I have nothing illegal to hide, and while I'd rather people didn't look through what I've been doing, it's all down to what's more important....
I don't know if any of you have ever come across a language called 'Camilla' - I'm not learning it myself, but some friends of mine have to use it for their course...
Camilla was originally written by a Czech - and has never been properly translated into english. So, apparently, some of the more obscure error messages are still in Czech..
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That would be Israel, Italy (well, the Vatican City), and Haven't-Got-A-Clue-Land
I thought we were talking about the UK here?
To reply to one of your questions, StudioLinux.com has details on the setup of a lot of VFX/animation studios around the world....
To quote from the Weta page:
Desktop Hardware
IBM XZPro 6223
dual 3.4 GHz Nacona CPUs
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300
RenderFarm Hardware
dual 2.8 GHz
Operating System
RedHat 9 (deployed)
Kernel: 2.4/2.6
Compiler: gcc 3.3.4
Glibc: 2.3.2, with NPTL
X: XFree86 v4.3
Desktop: KDE 3.1
Package Management: standard RPM
Not wishing to be a pedant [much :-)], but surely he discovered geosynchronous orbits?
I think both statements are perfectly valid... He discovered geosynchronous orbits, and invented geosynchronous satellites...
My initial reaction when reading this story was to stand up for the ISPs - say something along the same lines as most other people here...
HOWEVER, if I had a choice between another attack on the scale of Sept 11th, and my ISP holding my logs (and the chance that someone might look through them), I'd be quite happy to let anyone look at the logs.
I have nothing illegal to hide, and while I'd rather people didn't look through what I've been doing, it's all down to what's more important....
I don't know if any of you have ever come across a language called 'Camilla' - I'm not learning it myself, but some friends of mine have to use it for their course...
Camilla was originally written by a Czech - and has never been properly translated into english. So, apparently, some of the more obscure error messages are still in Czech..