I had this kind of attack done to me and I set up RBL in Sendmail (in SuSE, simply uncomment a few lines in/etc/mail/linux.mc and regenerate your sendmail.cf).
Haven't had a problem since, and not one spam has gotten through since.
Somewhat related: My RoadRunner account gets very little spam, maybe 2 or 3 a week, despite my publishing the address everywhere. The account for my local ISP (yes, I have RoadRunner in a different city. They let me host websites) gets a lot more spam, like 10 a week, despite my never having given it out ever. I just use it for getting service messages.
It seems that RoadRunner has some decent methods for preventing spam, but I don't know what they are. I wish every ISP used the RBL...
He calls the freaking secretary, who *CAN'T* say anything to the media because that'd cost her her job, and then mocks her for not knowing about what is, really, a pissant little website known only to geeks.
I believe one of the jobs of secretaries is to proxy requests. You're supposed to talk to the secretaries because they're the ones who answer the main phone lines. They proxy the requests to whoever is responsible.
It was either the secretary or the responsible person who have failed in their job, not Katz.
Hmmm, tell that to all of the artists who worked on the GIMP. What about all those guys that do backgrounds, rendered images, videos, and Flash animations for the sheer joy of it?
Actually, replace "artist" with "developer" in your post, then look at Freshmeat and Sourceforge.
As for musicians, look at MP3.com and all of those MOD musicians in the days of yore.
For just about anything creative, you'll find people not only willing, but enthusiastic.
I recently started using Python and I now use it for everything, including an interactive shell. Thanks.
One thing I see in Python-land is that there is a tendency to implement everything in Python. I just submitted a design for a program that I want to write in Python and I used Sketch for diagrams, despite having CorelDraw for Linux right here. It seems that no Python programmer is happy with having a component written in another language. Many other languages don't interoperate as well as in Python but those programmers seem happy with mixing Perl and C, for example. Look at Zope. It has it's own web server. I know it's faster, but why do you think this is happening with Python specifically?
Well, Hemos saw fit to mention XMMS in the blurb, leading me to believe that GForce is actually available for XMMS or that even XMMS is mentioned in the article.
Nope, not even a mention of XMMS (or Linux, or UNIX) in the article or on his site.
I said it was unscientific and that Alan Cox wasn't on it. Jens Axboe of SuSE isn't on there either.
extremely sensitive to hardware failure - lose a few blocks, and your btree dies.
That's not really true, unless I was dreaming the time the hard drive on my laptop started getting bad blocks. I'm pretty sure that if my btree died, I would have known it.
corrupted data is what you get with the 2.4 kernel SuSE ships.
That's FUD and you know it. I'm on the SuSE english users list and I have heard no such thing.
the SuSE [installer] is really bad
Based on what? What's bad about having Windows partition resizing in it? What's bad about having a list of packages with short descriptions to the right? Icons make no sense because they are all the same. There's nothing you need to graphically differentiate with icons in the installer. It also looks ugly when the package name wraps and there are no short descriptions there.
With the SuSE install, I can make multiple primary partitions. I remember having to write the steps to switch to a console to use fdisk in a paper at work for installing Red Hat.
Have you actually looked at YaST2 and it's design? SuSE customers can do whatever they want with it to make custom installers, etc. Alice is cool, too. I'm even saying this as a Python freak.
Do note that I use both Red Hat and SuSE on a daily basis and I end up doing a lot of installs with both.
stabilitywise Mandrake is shipping known broken components in the kernel (ReiserFS, supermount etc).
I've been using ReiserFS for over a year in SuSE and I haven't had a problem. It is not "known broken." VA seems to trust it enough to store Sourceforge data.
I think everyone will agree that it's Red Hat that have been shipping known broken components in 7.0: gcc, et al.
Also, Red Hat seems to be far behind other distributions in the maintenance of the distribution. The installation and configuration tools are much more mature on Mandrake and SuSE than on Red Hat.
I'm not trying to flame here, but there's this old saying about a pot and a kettle.
Finally, let's include a snippet from my terminal. No it isn't very scientific, AC isn't in there, but...
Re:I remember something like that...
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I set up a Netwinder at work, which was cool. I like that little guy.
At one point I changed the root password. Typed it, typed it again, then logged out. When I logged back in, the password was incorrect. I managed to type the wrong password twice. Sigh.
Netwinders don't have floppy drives, by the way:-)*
I spent ten minutes trying different possible erroneous passwords...
Luckily, I was able to boot from the rescue partition and fix it, but that required a fair bit of paniced searching because there was nothing in the included docs...
But then again, that's nothing compared to the time I did physical damage from a program.
I was working on a robotic arm with a big servo. A gripper had to move up and the servo would go forward at one point. I was debugging (that was hell, but that's another story) and there was no delay between those operations (I forgot to add it). Result: gripper didn't clear what was in front of it when the servo pushed forward at "nothing gets into my way" mode. Can you say, "smashy-smashy?"
Wow, you just described me, except for the fact that I started using UNIX in '92, long after DOS was available...
I don't have or use Windows, even at work. I've converted many people too, I was the first person in my current company to do it, and now the entire development team (and one guy in support) use it.
In my last job, I used NT, which I had to reboot everyday. Some Windows people will say things like, "It doesn't crash like that too often for me." I usually reply with, "Windows is largely incompatible with the way I use computers." I usually have at least 10 windows open (that includes Konsole, which, in one window, contains five or six terminal sessions), which I flip through constantly, which is why I put my taskbar in the upper left corner, each new entry goes below the last one. (It also has something to do with having "paper" proportioned windows) In Windows, I accelerate memory leaks by using it in this way.
I also use Linux for the same reason I bought a TI-85 in college: If it doesn't do something I want, I can make it do it someway or another.
As far as "getting things to work" goes, my favourite demonstration is grabbing a random network card ("hand me your NIC...") and plugging it into my laptop. No dialogs, no "Windows will install the driver for blah blah blah...reboot," just an audible beep and I can continue surfing. Many USB devices work the same way, too. Last week, I found a USB keyboard in our lab, plugged it in, and started typing. Again, no driver dialogs.
To be more on topic, I have bought Civ:CTP and Heroes 3. I'm thinking of buying SoF and will definitely buy Alpha Centauri. For Tribes, I'll have to see what it's like first.:-)*
Now I'd like to see Black and White for Linux. I'd definitely buy that, too.
They said that they would release all of their SDK stuff as open source if they went under. Cool, maybe there's some useful stuff there.
What I would like to see are open hardware designs. Some of us may want to build an Indrema or something like it. Chances are, few people will build one (opting for NLX designs instead, but I'm not all that impressed with NLX), but the learning potential is great.
Remember when Compaq open the hardware design of the Itsy? I didn't build one, but I went over the schematics to see how they designed it.
That's what I really would like to see now that there's no hope for me ever buying one from them. I would have been first in line, sigh...
Multi-monitor support is in X. Applications need some way to actually use it, though.
What they announced was that support.
These "bloat" posts really bug me. What is so wrong with adding another library that seamlessly integrates with the existing libraries? Isn't that how software development works?
There are some similar elements (drugs, DEA, etc) but George is not really a bad guy. He doesn't kill anyone and doesn't want to. He's loyal to his friends and doesn't really screw people over while he gets screwed constantly by others, including the friends he defended.
Scarface *is* a bad guy. He doesn't mind screwing people, or stealing, or killing. He's a very different character.
I hope that everyone on the anti-Microsoft is a stupid fuck like this idiot I'm responding to, as that will make it easier for Microsoft to get a fair outcome. Alas, I fear that some of Microsoft's critics are a bit more intelligent and are capable of coming up with some semblance of a rational argument.
I would hardly call a situation where someone wins because the people picked to represent the opposition were "idiots" fair.
A fair outcome happens when both parties are on equal footing. Unfortunately, Microsoft will likely be treated more than fairly no matter what, even if they lose.
Where I work, SSH is the only connection to our development LAN we can have from the outside. I routinely tunnel connections through SSH, for accessing my ZWiki, and for getting/sending mail. If you're going to work from home (they pay for our cable modems), it *has* to be over SSH. If you need something out in the field, SSH is the only way.
I can, however, see where you are coming from. So I have a pair of suggestions:
1. Webmin. This is the only remote admin tool I like. Everything else just sucks and breaks when I manually edit files. You can easily set it up to use SSL, too. If your firewall allows that kind of traffic (likely), you can use that. It has the added bonus of limiting access to parts of the system so that certain users can run specified commands, while superusers can create and run those commands. If you need to up/download files, it does that, too. Don't even try to use the telnet however. Limit your access to the commands page.
2. Obviously, you are a superuser. You don't want regular users to remotely access your internal systems while you have to. That's fine. Simply let yourself do it, while blocking the regular users. There are two ways I can think of for doing this: a. Set up a box with an SSH port open that only you (and whoever else should have access) have an account on. Make that an intermediate box, which you ssh into, then ssh to the server you're trying to get to. b. If your firewall supports "trusted hosts" (likely, if it can filter by content) and your home system has a static address, allow ssh only from your address.
If you can't do either of these, then forget it and don't bother giving away the free overtime:-)*
I'm a huge fan of shorts. I think it's great to be able to flesh an innovative idea out in 5 or 10 minutes and not have to worry about using filler to make it 90-120 minutes. You'll find the most creative stuff that way.
Some of the best stuff I've seen came from the NFB here in Canada. I highly recommend checking out Norman McLaren's work. He was obsessed with the use of technology in animation and had a tendency to inspire people to experiment in their own creations. Neighbours, which uses stop motion animation with live actors (yup, it's pretty freaky) and a soundtrack which he drew directly on the film, won an Oscar. A lot of the other NFB stuff is amazing to eyes and ears as well. They're selling DVDs now, too, including a pair of animation collections which I highly recommend. The first one has Getting Started, which is the story of my life.:-)*
I also recommend a series of DVDs out there called Short Invention. They're really cool and I've been finding them in the Future Shop, which is even cooler, so you might be able to buy them off the shelf locally.
But, please, please, do not focus on computer animation and the like without showing the works of Norman McLaren first or your students will definitely miss out on something very important.
It looks extremely cool, and I'm thinking of setting it up at home. The only thing I need is a voice modem, which I'm sure I can get for dirt.
One cool feature is the ability to run commands from your phone. Imagine getting an email to your phone when something goes wrong, and using your phone to restart the service. That's also cool because we can receive email in my service area, but can't send it. With VOCPsystem on my home box, I'll be able to send email that way.
Check out Dizz-net. It's basically an article spawned by a conversation on Slashdot over a year ago that moved to a mailing list.
We had some cool ideas, but the infrastructure for such a thing would be huge. I have a bunch of interesting messages from the mailing list describing some pretty cool stuff, like having nodes only search for stuff that near them, network-wise, to lessen the load at critical points. There was also some talk about moderation ("Click here if this link is not relevant to your search") and heuristics to stop common abuses (spider-bait).
It never happened, because it's pretty heavy stuff to implement properly.
I'm sure some patent-squatter has a patent on it already, with the full intention of letting someone else do the hard work.:-)*
You mean QNX? Last I heard, the/. zealots were BSD and Linux zealots. QNX is a proprietary product and therefore evil to those guys.
Or maybe you're talking about their use of Bugzilla for their bug tracking?:-)*
Disclaimer: I do not use Windows at all if I can help it, I use Linux mostly, so I'm not generalising the Linux community, just the few morons who hang out here...
I'm still on RoadRunner in Newfoundland. By default, they block web and ftp ports.
However, if you want to run a website, or ftp server, you can simply call them and ask. They announced it on their newsgroup when they started doing it.
I did immediately, and they capped my upload at 500k. It's a good solution, and the bandwidth has been much better since because the warez-d00dz were capped as well. I'm very happy with the arrangement.
I'm an engineer, I had to learn a fair bit of physics and chemistry.
I have to apply that knowledge as an engineer, especially when I'm doing instrumentation. In my last job I did physics experiments for sensors employing the Kinotex technology. I did the experiments, wrote software for performing them, and wrote documents detailing my findings. I also used chemistry knowledge for some of it.
I am not a physicist, or a chemist, or a computer scientist. I did, however, use the principles of all of those sciences in developing an application.
Programmers and IT professionals are the same way. They apply the principles of computer science. Your average guy with a bachelor of CS is not a scientist, nor is your average guy with a bachelor of physics. I, too, am not a scientist. We apply the principles, but don't discover them, in general. We may sometimes discover principles, but that's not what we are hired to do.
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Just use the RBL.
/etc/mail/linux.mc and regenerate your sendmail.cf).
I had this kind of attack done to me and I set up RBL in Sendmail (in SuSE, simply uncomment a few lines in
Haven't had a problem since, and not one spam has gotten through since.
Somewhat related: My RoadRunner account gets very little spam, maybe 2 or 3 a week, despite my publishing the address everywhere. The account for my local ISP (yes, I have RoadRunner in a different city. They let me host websites) gets a lot more spam, like 10 a week, despite my never having given it out ever. I just use it for getting service messages.
It seems that RoadRunner has some decent methods for preventing spam, but I don't know what they are. I wish every ISP used the RBL...
I believe one of the jobs of secretaries is to proxy requests. You're supposed to talk to the secretaries because they're the ones who answer the main phone lines. They proxy the requests to whoever is responsible.
It was either the secretary or the responsible person who have failed in their job, not Katz.
Hmmm, tell that to all of the artists who worked on the GIMP. What about all those guys that do backgrounds, rendered images, videos, and Flash animations for the sheer joy of it?
Actually, replace "artist" with "developer" in your post, then look at Freshmeat and Sourceforge.
As for musicians, look at MP3.com and all of those MOD musicians in the days of yore.
For just about anything creative, you'll find people not only willing, but enthusiastic.
I recently started using Python and I now use it for everything, including an interactive shell. Thanks.
One thing I see in Python-land is that there is a tendency to implement everything in Python. I just submitted a design for a program that I want to write in Python and I used Sketch for diagrams, despite having CorelDraw for Linux right here. It seems that no Python programmer is happy with having a component written in another language. Many other languages don't interoperate as well as in Python but those programmers seem happy with mixing Perl and C, for example. Look at Zope. It has it's own web server. I know it's faster, but why do you think this is happening with Python specifically?
Well, Hemos saw fit to mention XMMS in the blurb, leading me to believe that GForce is actually available for XMMS or that even XMMS is mentioned in the article.
Nope, not even a mention of XMMS (or Linux, or UNIX) in the article or on his site.
Thanks for getting my hopes up!
I said it was unscientific and that Alan Cox wasn't on it. Jens Axboe of SuSE isn't on there either.
That's not really true, unless I was dreaming the time the hard drive on my laptop started getting bad blocks. I'm pretty sure that if my btree died, I would have known it.
That's FUD and you know it. I'm on the SuSE english users list and I have heard no such thing.
Based on what? What's bad about having Windows partition resizing in it? What's bad about having a list of packages with short descriptions to the right? Icons make no sense because they are all the same. There's nothing you need to graphically differentiate with icons in the installer. It also looks ugly when the package name wraps and there are no short descriptions there.
With the SuSE install, I can make multiple primary partitions. I remember having to write the steps to switch to a console to use fdisk in a paper at work for installing Red Hat.
Have you actually looked at YaST2 and it's design? SuSE customers can do whatever they want with it to make custom installers, etc. Alice is cool, too. I'm even saying this as a Python freak.
Do note that I use both Red Hat and SuSE on a daily basis and I end up doing a lot of installs with both.
I've been using ReiserFS for over a year in SuSE and I haven't had a problem. It is not "known broken." VA seems to trust it enough to store Sourceforge data.
I think everyone will agree that it's Red Hat that have been shipping known broken components in 7.0: gcc, et al.
Also, Red Hat seems to be far behind other distributions in the maintenance of the distribution. The installation and configuration tools are much more mature on Mandrake and SuSE than on Red Hat.
I'm not trying to flame here, but there's this old saying about a pot and a kettle.
Finally, let's include a snippet from my terminal. No it isn't very scientific, AC isn't in there, but...
jfunk@arthur:/usr/src/linux > grep redhat<CREDITS
E: hdeller@redhat.de
E: jakub@redhat.com
E: johnsonm@redhat.com
W: http://www.redhat.com/~johnsonm
E: davem@redhat.com
E: sct@redhat.com
E: dwmw2@redhat.com
jfunk@arthur:/usr/src/linux > grep suse<CREDITS
E: andre@suse.com
E: hohndel@suse.de
E: hubicka@suse.cz
E: aj@suse.de
E: davej@suse.de
W: http://www.suse.de/~davej
E: jack@suse.cz
E: perex@suse.cz
E: pavel@suse.cz
E: mj@suse.cz
E: vojtech@suse.cz
I set up a Netwinder at work, which was cool. I like that little guy.
:-)*
:-)*
At one point I changed the root password. Typed it, typed it again, then logged out. When I logged back in, the password was incorrect. I managed to type the wrong password twice. Sigh.
Netwinders don't have floppy drives, by the way
I spent ten minutes trying different possible erroneous passwords...
Luckily, I was able to boot from the rescue partition and fix it, but that required a fair bit of paniced searching because there was nothing in the included docs...
But then again, that's nothing compared to the time I did physical damage from a program.
I was working on a robotic arm with a big servo. A gripper had to move up and the servo would go forward at one point. I was debugging (that was hell, but that's another story) and there was no delay between those operations (I forgot to add it). Result: gripper didn't clear what was in front of it when the servo pushed forward at "nothing gets into my way" mode. Can you say, "smashy-smashy?"
No I didn't get fired.
Wow, you just described me, except for the fact that I started using UNIX in '92, long after DOS was available...
:-)*
I don't have or use Windows, even at work. I've converted many people too, I was the first person in my current company to do it, and now the entire development team (and one guy in support) use it.
In my last job, I used NT, which I had to reboot everyday. Some Windows people will say things like, "It doesn't crash like that too often for me." I usually reply with, "Windows is largely incompatible with the way I use computers." I usually have at least 10 windows open (that includes Konsole, which, in one window, contains five or six terminal sessions), which I flip through constantly, which is why I put my taskbar in the upper left corner, each new entry goes below the last one. (It also has something to do with having "paper" proportioned windows) In Windows, I accelerate memory leaks by using it in this way.
I also use Linux for the same reason I bought a TI-85 in college: If it doesn't do something I want, I can make it do it someway or another.
As far as "getting things to work" goes, my favourite demonstration is grabbing a random network card ("hand me your NIC...") and plugging it into my laptop. No dialogs, no "Windows will install the driver for blah blah blah...reboot," just an audible beep and I can continue surfing. Many USB devices work the same way, too. Last week, I found a USB keyboard in our lab, plugged it in, and started typing. Again, no driver dialogs.
To be more on topic, I have bought Civ:CTP and Heroes 3. I'm thinking of buying SoF and will definitely buy Alpha Centauri. For Tribes, I'll have to see what it's like first.
Now I'd like to see Black and White for Linux. I'd definitely buy that, too.
They said that they would release all of their SDK stuff as open source if they went under. Cool, maybe there's some useful stuff there.
What I would like to see are open hardware designs. Some of us may want to build an Indrema or something like it. Chances are, few people will build one (opting for NLX designs instead, but I'm not all that impressed with NLX), but the learning potential is great.
Remember when Compaq open the hardware design of the Itsy? I didn't build one, but I went over the schematics to see how they designed it.
That's what I really would like to see now that there's no hope for me ever buying one from them. I would have been first in line, sigh...
Multi-monitor support is in X. Applications need some way to actually use it, though.
What they announced was that support.
These "bloat" posts really bug me. What is so wrong with adding another library that seamlessly integrates with the existing libraries? Isn't that how software development works?
I was going to reply with the same suggestion.
The file dialog is the weakest part of GNOME and one of the reasons I use KDE.
Have you seen the KDE file dialogs? One of my favourite features is the bookmarks.
I also think there should be a home directory button as well as history in the text box.
However, it seems that the GNOME people want very much to be "not KDE." That was the point of GNOME in the first place, right?
It's not like Scarface.
There are some similar elements (drugs, DEA, etc) but George is not really a bad guy. He doesn't kill anyone and doesn't want to. He's loyal to his friends and doesn't really screw people over while he gets screwed constantly by others, including the friends he defended.
Scarface *is* a bad guy. He doesn't mind screwing people, or stealing, or killing. He's a very different character.
I hope that everyone on the anti-Microsoft is a stupid fuck like this idiot I'm responding to, as that will make it easier for Microsoft to get a fair outcome. Alas, I fear that some of Microsoft's critics are a bit more intelligent and are capable of coming up with some semblance of a rational argument.
I would hardly call a situation where someone wins because the people picked to represent the opposition were "idiots" fair.
A fair outcome happens when both parties are on equal footing. Unfortunately, Microsoft will likely be treated more than fairly no matter what, even if they lose.
Where I work, SSH is the only connection to our development LAN we can have from the outside. I routinely tunnel connections through SSH, for accessing my ZWiki, and for getting/sending mail. If you're going to work from home (they pay for our cable modems), it *has* to be over SSH. If you need something out in the field, SSH is the only way.
:-)*
I can, however, see where you are coming from. So I have a pair of suggestions:
1. Webmin. This is the only remote admin tool I like. Everything else just sucks and breaks when I manually edit files. You can easily set it up to use SSL, too. If your firewall allows that kind of traffic (likely), you can use that. It has the added bonus of limiting access to parts of the system so that certain users can run specified commands, while superusers can create and run those commands. If you need to up/download files, it does that, too. Don't even try to use the telnet however. Limit your access to the commands page.
2. Obviously, you are a superuser. You don't want regular users to remotely access your internal systems while you have to. That's fine. Simply let yourself do it, while blocking the regular users. There are two ways I can think of for doing this: a. Set up a box with an SSH port open that only you (and whoever else should have access) have an account on. Make that an intermediate box, which you ssh into, then ssh to the server you're trying to get to. b. If your firewall supports "trusted hosts" (likely, if it can filter by content) and your home system has a static address, allow ssh only from your address.
If you can't do either of these, then forget it and don't bother giving away the free overtime
I'm a huge fan of shorts. I think it's great to be able to flesh an innovative idea out in 5 or 10 minutes and not have to worry about using filler to make it 90-120 minutes. You'll find the most creative stuff that way.
:-)*
Some of the best stuff I've seen came from the NFB here in Canada. I highly recommend checking out Norman McLaren's work. He was obsessed with the use of technology in animation and had a tendency to inspire people to experiment in their own creations. Neighbours, which uses stop motion animation with live actors (yup, it's pretty freaky) and a soundtrack which he drew directly on the film, won an Oscar. A lot of the other NFB stuff is amazing to eyes and ears as well. They're selling DVDs now, too, including a pair of animation collections which I highly recommend. The first one has Getting Started, which is the story of my life.
I also recommend a series of DVDs out there called Short Invention. They're really cool and I've been finding them in the Future Shop, which is even cooler, so you might be able to buy them off the shelf locally.
But, please, please, do not focus on computer animation and the like without showing the works of Norman McLaren first or your students will definitely miss out on something very important.
Check out VOCPSystem.
It looks extremely cool, and I'm thinking of setting it up at home. The only thing I need is a voice modem, which I'm sure I can get for dirt.
One cool feature is the ability to run commands from your phone. Imagine getting an email to your phone when something goes wrong, and using your phone to restart the service. That's also cool because we can receive email in my service area, but can't send it. With VOCPsystem on my home box, I'll be able to send email that way.
Check out Dizz-net. It's basically an article spawned by a conversation on Slashdot over a year ago that moved to a mailing list.
:-)*
We had some cool ideas, but the infrastructure for such a thing would be huge. I have a bunch of interesting messages from the mailing list describing some pretty cool stuff, like having nodes only search for stuff that near them, network-wise, to lessen the load at critical points. There was also some talk about moderation ("Click here if this link is not relevant to your search") and heuristics to stop common abuses (spider-bait).
It never happened, because it's pretty heavy stuff to implement properly.
I'm sure some patent-squatter has a patent on it already, with the full intention of letting someone else do the hard work.
You mean QNX? Last I heard, the /. zealots were BSD and Linux zealots. QNX is a proprietary product and therefore evil to those guys.
:-)*
Or maybe you're talking about their use of Bugzilla for their bug tracking?
Disclaimer: I do not use Windows at all if I can help it, I use Linux mostly, so I'm not generalising the Linux community, just the few morons who hang out here...
Looks like Archie and the gang are getting some really neat toys!
Now, who do you think will be the most 'leet haxor? My guess is Jughead.
Actually, the Turbo Express was vertically aligned.
It also played the same hu-cards as the TG-16.
Yup, and the Atari Lynx had it years before that.
All that, in addition to the networking of up to (IIRC) 8 players. Too bad the software guys didn't release much...
I'm still on RoadRunner in Newfoundland. By default, they block web and ftp ports.
However, if you want to run a website, or ftp server, you can simply call them and ask. They announced it on their newsgroup when they started doing it.
I did immediately, and they capped my upload at 500k. It's a good solution, and the bandwidth has been much better since because the warez-d00dz were capped as well. I'm very happy with the arrangement.
It's not a TV screen, but a computer screen. Big difference.
Have you ever rented a car with one of those GPS devices? It's quite neat, and is not illegal.
Then again, those things probably reduce accidents.
I'm an engineer, I had to learn a fair bit of physics and chemistry.
I have to apply that knowledge as an engineer, especially when I'm doing instrumentation. In my last job I did physics experiments for sensors employing the Kinotex technology. I did the experiments, wrote software for performing them, and wrote documents detailing my findings. I also used chemistry knowledge for some of it.
I am not a physicist, or a chemist, or a computer scientist. I did, however, use the principles of all of those sciences in developing an application.
Programmers and IT professionals are the same way. They apply the principles of computer science. Your average guy with a bachelor of CS is not a scientist, nor is your average guy with a bachelor of physics. I, too, am not a scientist. We apply the principles, but don't discover them, in general. We may sometimes discover principles, but that's not what we are hired to do.