Most places I have seen that offer similar services (I use pair.net, $9.95 a month for 50MB of disk, 10 email addresses, ssh access, etc., YMMV) charge 8-14 dollars (US) a month. $8/mo x 12 months is $96 a year. $14/mo x 12 months is $168 a year. Neither of those includes the backup software, the antivirus software...
Not allowing people to pay by the month is a poor choice, but it's not the massive screw job everyone is making it out to be.
Instead of endlessly mucking about with upgrading your x86 box, why not hold off on buying the next overpriced processor and video card upgrade you're doubtless eyeing and try out a G4 iMac instead for less than $1000?
You might be surprised how much you can get done once your quit fucking around with the computer and start actually using it.
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Actually the reason to make the change is buried in your response.:) Why maintain two networks? Why maintain that 'cost effective' voice T1 between two of your offices that averages less than 8 channels utilized when the data T1 running between the same two sites is pegged out 80% of the day?
VoIP solutions allow you to better manage your overall bandwidth costs. Mostly by allowing you to defer data network upgrades by using that dead space on your old voice network.
If your data network is unstable, unreliable, and increasing in cost, I have to wonder what in the heck you're doing with it.
How the hell did this get moderated insightful? The poster (AC even!) didn't even read the article, or they would have understood that the proposal was to build everything on site on the moon. Which would be quite doable if we were to put the same amount of time and money into it as we do, say, the New York Yankees.
There is an alternative... You generally cannot intervene in a private lawsuit. And Nintendo is almost certainly assuming that this store isn't going to go all the way to court over this. But you can ask your Congressman to "look into this" and report back to you on the merit of foreign software corporations using the DMCA to prevent U.S. software developers from writing software for a popular computing platform. With enough publicity, and enough questions from Congress, Nintendo might be persuaded to back off.
Do this! If ever there is to be a time when this type of tactic would work, this is it, with all the patriotic frenzy out there.
What congressperson wouldn't love to get on the news for standing up to an evil foreign company that is trying to repress a US Citizen?
I'm running Office XP right now. Outlook is currently using 23M of RAM. Word is using 28M. (Windows 2000 + Office XP)
Word doesn't even have a file open, not even a blank file.
I don't count that as 'scant amounts'.
And it loads quick because that "Microsoft Office" icon in your startup menu preloads most of the thing during your boot/login process where you think it's normal for your disk to be thrashing itself apart.
If they were seriously after patent infringers, what about Microsoft and their gang of WinCE/PocketPC manufacturers?
Sounds like a moribund company trying to steal some free PR and possibly some settlement money, while staying away from antagonizing fish that are big enough to bite back...
For that matter, it's easier than that. Wait until SDMI comes out. Someone with a few extra bucks can go pay for the new version of Real Jukebox that can watermark songs. Rip a track, watermark it, and compare the watermarked copy to the original. The watermark will stand out.
Repeat the process a few times, perhaps with a couple different paid-for copies of RJ to see what parts of the watermark are serial numbers, etc.
SDMI is stillborn, we might as well let the RIAA spend time and money on it. It will keep them from doing anything productive in the meantime.:)
I have a Sun Ultra 10 happily running Helix Code Gnome 1.2 sitting on my desk right now. If XFree supported the Creator3D video card in the thing I'd nuke Slo-laris entirely and load Linux on it instead.
CDE is the most horribly non-intuitive interface I've seen used with any amount of regularity. Xi should know better.
It also doesn't help that the e-book prices are about the same as the paper books.
This is exactly the problem. Why would I pay $24.95 for the new Tom Clancy novel in e-book format, when for 4 more dollars I can have a nice hardcover edition that I can read, re-read, pass on to my father, and read again, no matter what the state of the batteries in a laptop or whatever?
Last time I checked the book publishers hadn't been able to make it illegal to pass a book over to a friend to read after you're done with it. There's no convenient way to do this electronically, and my father won't be buying a e-book reader of any flavor anytime soon.
Publishers don't yet seem to realize how important a friend's recommendation is.
And this is especially true in books, where there is little that can make a book stand out amongst the thousands of titles that come out every year. I can't tell you how many books I've bought because a friend gave me a book and said "You've got to read this!". For every time that has happened, I've usually bought at least one more book by that author, and often I have even purchased the original book to have my own copy.
I've bought 4 complete sets of the Lord of the Rings books in my lifetime. I gave a friend one, read one into pieces, and bought a new set that was just a nicer edition than the one I had. I don't see myself buying an ebook more than once because they've 'printed' it on a nicer CD or whatever...
Installing 95/98 is NOT easy on a bare computer. The default drivers are usually inadequate to actually run the hardware. The CD doesn't boot, requiring the use of a bootable floppy. The install program doesn't fdisk or format the hard drive.
Assuming you can get past the install, when you're done you have such wonderful tools as 'Notepad' and 'Calculator'. Most Linux distros leave you with a full Office suite of some kind (StarOffice, etc), several different email packages, news readers, graphical FTP programs, image editing on the level of $600 commercial software (Gimp)...
Actually their fdisk sucks, it won't remove partitions it doesn't understand, such as ext2 partitions. It claims there is a extended partition with no logical drives defined, then refuses to delete the extended partition because logical drives are defined.
I was forced to cut open a recent fallen soldier and found the plastic ball. As near as I can tell it seems to have one very tiny hole in it which I presume squirts out the gas.
I'm left wondering what the widget was, I never had to drink the stuff out of a can in the UK and the little ball has been in there since I got back..
You forgot OpenVMS, also. VMS still runs a lot of pretty important things - most of the US electric power generation and transmission networks run on OpenVMS. Which runs on Alpha.
Compaq is very dedicated to the Alpha processor in Unix land - the Alpha version of NT sold in such miniscule amounts that this annoucement is not much of a surprise. The performance of emulated x86 software on Alpha was marginal at best on NT.
NT is much more easily crashable out of the box. There are a lot of fun buffer overflows in the TCP stack that can drop a server in no time.
Breaking into an NT box usually just requires a few minutes with a decent crack kit. Most admins don't turn on encrypted passwords, don't require strong (i.e. non dictionary) passwords, leave 'administrator' called 'administrator', and allow anonymous browsing. With all that, you can easily extract a user list in a couple of seconds. Once you have that you can sniff for password hashes and run a dictionary attack against them.
Out of the box, Linux's security depends on which box you opened. RedHat 5.2 is the best that Redhat has done so far, although they still leave too much stuff turned on in inetd.conf. (Come on, finger?!?!) I don't have much experience with any other distros.
At least with Linux you can shut off the crap you don't use. Just try to shut down excess cruft on an NT server - a lot of it is not even optional anymore.
Ask your manager if he trusts Solaris out of the box. Then show him all the patch CDs that come with that you have to install, plus the current list of patches to go download. Commercial != secure.
As someone else said, though, any fool who trusts the out of box experience to protect their corporate assets deserves what they get.
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Then you're missing out on Odyssey 5, which is now the only reason I keep Showtime.
You need a Tivo. Mine keeps me from missing a single episode.
Sometimes I get really lucky and it grabs the 2AM showing, which is typically commercial free for "cable in the classroom".
Most places I have seen that offer similar services (I use pair.net, $9.95 a month for 50MB of disk, 10 email addresses, ssh access, etc., YMMV) charge 8-14 dollars (US) a month. $8/mo x 12 months is $96 a year. $14/mo x 12 months is $168 a year. Neither of those includes the backup software, the antivirus software...
Not allowing people to pay by the month is a poor choice, but it's not the massive screw job everyone is making it out to be.
Instead of endlessly mucking about with upgrading your x86 box, why not hold off on buying the next overpriced processor and video card upgrade you're doubtless eyeing and try out a G4 iMac instead for less than $1000?
You might be surprised how much you can get done once your quit fucking around with the computer and start actually using it.
Actually the reason to make the change is buried in your response. :) Why maintain two networks? Why maintain that 'cost effective' voice T1 between two of your offices that averages less than 8 channels utilized when the data T1 running between the same two sites is pegged out 80% of the day?
VoIP solutions allow you to better manage your overall bandwidth costs. Mostly by allowing you to defer data network upgrades by using that dead space on your old voice network.
If your data network is unstable, unreliable, and increasing in cost, I have to wonder what in the heck you're doing with it.
How the hell did this get moderated insightful? The poster (AC even!) didn't even read the article, or they would have understood that the proposal was to build everything on site on the moon. Which would be quite doable if we were to put the same amount of time and money into it as we do, say, the New York Yankees.
Do this! If ever there is to be a time when this type of tactic would work, this is it, with all the patriotic frenzy out there.
What congressperson wouldn't love to get on the news for standing up to an evil foreign company that is trying to repress a US Citizen?
Scant amounts of ram?
Someone mod this +1, Funny, please.
I'm running Office XP right now. Outlook is currently using 23M of RAM. Word is using 28M. (Windows 2000 + Office XP)
Word doesn't even have a file open, not even a blank file.
I don't count that as 'scant amounts'.
And it loads quick because that "Microsoft Office" icon in your startup menu preloads most of the thing during your boot/login process where you think it's normal for your disk to be thrashing itself apart.
If they were seriously after patent infringers, what about Microsoft and their gang of WinCE/PocketPC manufacturers?
Sounds like a moribund company trying to steal some free PR and possibly some settlement money, while staying away from antagonizing fish that are big enough to bite back...
Wireless. Check out Prairie I-net at http://www.prairieinet.com/. They're targeting the rural market specifically.
Certainly.
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For that matter, it's easier than that. Wait until SDMI comes out. Someone with a few extra bucks can go pay for the new version of Real Jukebox that can watermark songs. Rip a track, watermark it, and compare the watermarked copy to the original. The watermark will stand out.
Repeat the process a few times, perhaps with a couple different paid-for copies of RJ to see what parts of the watermark are serial numbers, etc.
SDMI is stillborn, we might as well let the RIAA spend time and money on it. It will keep them from doing anything productive in the meantime.
I have a Sun Ultra 10 happily running Helix Code Gnome 1.2 sitting on my desk right now. If XFree supported the Creator3D video card in the thing I'd nuke Slo-laris entirely and load Linux on it instead.
CDE is the most horribly non-intuitive interface I've seen used with any amount of regularity. Xi should know better.
In the older days, you were buying expensive hardware. The older models especially that are mentioned in this article are all Motorola 68k chips.
Newer models moved away from general purpose CPUs to proprietary chips designed for fast routing/switching.
This is exactly the problem. Why would I pay $24.95 for the new Tom Clancy novel in e-book format, when for 4 more dollars I can have a nice hardcover edition that I can read, re-read, pass on to my father, and read again, no matter what the state of the batteries in a laptop or whatever?
Last time I checked the book publishers hadn't been able to make it illegal to pass a book over to a friend to read after you're done with it. There's no convenient way to do this electronically, and my father won't be buying a e-book reader of any flavor anytime soon.
Publishers don't yet seem to realize how important a friend's recommendation is.
And this is especially true in books, where there is little that can make a book stand out amongst the thousands of titles that come out every year. I can't tell you how many books I've bought because a friend gave me a book and said "You've got to read this!". For every time that has happened, I've usually bought at least one more book by that author, and often I have even purchased the original book to have my own copy.
I've bought 4 complete sets of the Lord of the Rings books in my lifetime. I gave a friend one, read one into pieces, and bought a new set that was just a nicer edition than the one I had. I don't see myself buying an ebook more than once because they've 'printed' it on a nicer CD or whatever...
Installing 95/98 is NOT easy on a bare computer. The default drivers are usually inadequate to actually run the hardware. The CD doesn't boot, requiring the use of a bootable floppy. The install program doesn't fdisk or format the hard drive.
Assuming you can get past the install, when you're done you have such wonderful tools as 'Notepad' and 'Calculator'. Most Linux distros leave you with a full Office suite of some kind (StarOffice, etc), several different email packages, news readers, graphical FTP programs, image editing on the level of $600 commercial software (Gimp)...
Actually their fdisk sucks, it won't remove partitions it doesn't understand, such as ext2 partitions. It claims there is a extended partition with no logical drives defined, then refuses to delete the extended partition because logical drives are defined.
Linux's fdisk seems to be much more effective...
I was forced to cut open a recent fallen soldier and found the plastic ball. As near as I can tell it seems to have one very tiny hole in it which I presume squirts out the gas.
I'm left wondering what the widget was, I never had to drink the stuff out of a can in the UK and the little ball has been in there since I got back..
You forgot OpenVMS, also. VMS still runs a lot of pretty important things - most of the US electric power generation and transmission networks run on OpenVMS. Which runs on Alpha.
Compaq is very dedicated to the Alpha processor in Unix land - the Alpha version of NT sold in such miniscule amounts that this annoucement is not much of a surprise. The performance of emulated x86 software on Alpha was marginal at best on NT.
Breaking into an NT box usually just requires a few minutes with a decent crack kit. Most admins don't turn on encrypted passwords, don't require strong (i.e. non dictionary) passwords, leave 'administrator' called 'administrator', and allow anonymous browsing. With all that, you can easily extract a user list in a couple of seconds. Once you have that you can sniff for password hashes and run a dictionary attack against them.
Out of the box, Linux's security depends on which box you opened. RedHat 5.2 is the best that Redhat has done so far, although they still leave too much stuff turned on in inetd.conf. (Come on, finger?!?!) I don't have much experience with any other distros.
At least with Linux you can shut off the crap you don't use. Just try to shut down excess cruft on an NT server - a lot of it is not even optional anymore.
Ask your manager if he trusts Solaris out of the box. Then show him all the patch CDs that come with that you have to install, plus the current list of patches to go download. Commercial != secure.
As someone else said, though, any fool who trusts the out of box experience to protect their corporate assets deserves what they get.