it was on his system, he should have some measure of responsibility for his property.
So you're telling me some guy should spend the rest of his life as a registered sex offender, with all of the harassment and vigilante "justice" that goes along with it, because he neglected to check the UNALLOCATED space on a second-hand computer for pr0n?
Gimme a break. This guy doesn't know what unallocated space is. All he knows is that going to jail for 20 days is a hell of a lot better than going to jail for years, so he pleads guilty.
Anyhow, does it really matter if it's unallocated to any partition or unallocated on an active partition? How's a non-geek gonna find those files? Does your grandfather have the technical expertise to recover files from unallocated space? The fact is he was not the only one with control of that machine. He is not even the original owner of that machine. How on earth is that not reasonable doubt? Because he couldn't afford a decent lawyer.
At least justice has been served, I guess. We ruined some guy's life who never did anything to harm anyone. I guess we should all be happy now.
Some of the images were found in unallocated file space, and would have to have been placed there deliberately since cached images from browsing sessions wouldn't have been stored in unallocated space.
Shame on you, Wired. From earlier in the article:
Jack originally believed that the images found on his computer were from a previous owner -- he'd bought the machine on an eBay auction.
Ok, here's what prolly happened:
Dude with his drive in two partitions downloads a bunch of pr0n and stores it on/dev/hda2 (or Windoze equivalent)
Porn-viewing dude decides to sell his computer on eBay.
Realizes that he can't very well sell it to someone when it's got child pr0n on it or he'll be goin' to jail
Nukes/dev/hda2 partition and thinks "ok, it's gone now. I'm in the clear".
It's only May. What happens when in June they come up with some stupid reason not to use Mac, then in July no more BSD 'cuz some Gartner "researcher" read on slashdot that BSD is dying, then in August no Solaris 'cuz Sun might open source it and then all the bad guys can look at the source and attack your network.
My point is Gartner just sits there and makes stupid recommendations. If we all did what Gartner told us to do, we'd be so busy switching our OS, restructuring our business, Offshoring, Onshoring, Rightshoring, Downsizing, concentrating on core competencies, adding new revenue streams, etc. that we would never get anything done.
Maybe that's why they never actually do anything. Because they're following their own advice.
First they say you shouldn't use Linux. Now, they don't want us using Windows 'cuz of worms. Tell me, gartner, what should I do? Oh, that's right, you don't ever do anything. You just make stupid recommendations.
If you use the proxy system correctly, then sniping does not affect you.
Using the proxy system correctly: You enter as your bid, the maximum you are willing to pay for the item you are bidding on.
Using the proxy system incorrectly: You enter the minimum bid. Someone outbids you. You enter the next minimum bid. Someone outbids you. Someone else outbids. You get in a bidding war with some other twit in Toledo. And you wonder why eBay sucks so much.
If you would simply use the proxy system correctly, there would be no issues (yes, I snipe). If you are willing to pay $50 for an item, don't bid $26.32 on it. Bid $50. Then, if I come along and snipe at $45 with 1 second left in the auction, it doesn't matter. You will win. It wouldn't matter to you if I bid with 1 second left or 1 day left. The outcome would be the same.
But that is why I snipe. Because there are too many people who come in and say, well, I'll bid $26. Then someone outbids them and they are like, well I'm not losing this auction over $2. So they bid $28. And the bidding war ensues.
Me, I don't like wars. I don't like emotion. If I'm willing to pay $50, I'm willing to pay $50, so I bid at the last second. If I win, I win. If I lose, I lose. But I don't get all heated up in some bidding war.
Supporting Debian by buying sarge for $50 would be great, but the people selling sarge CD's are not Debian.
I can count 29 different companies that sell deb CDs. Maybe one has them for less than $50?
As far as the bleeding edge goes wouldn't that be SID?
sarge is 10 days behind sid. I consider that to be bleeding edge, but you're right, it's all relative, and sid is certainly 10 days more bleeding.;)
I would be happy to buy a copy of woody, but many of the things I want in a system are seriously old in woody
What packages do you want from sarge? If it's not too many, you could theoretically run a mixed system. But, of course, if you want the latest X and kde/gnome or whatever, then you're pretty much screwed on woody.
Downloading/burning the CD's at a friend's house is not an option as there are a huge number of ISOs for sarge.
Is doing it on DVD an option for you? Otherwise, you're right. 12 CDs. Or you could just bite the bullet and let apt run all night downloading packages. You prolly only need a few hundred meg of that. Wasteful to download all 12 ISOs (much of which will be out of date in a month).
Electronic locks can be either "fail-safe" or "fail-secure". Fail-safe means they unlock when the power fails and, you guessed it, fail-secure means they lock when losing power and won't unlock until power is restored.
Yeah. Burn the CDs at work/school/friend's house/Kinkos/library/anywhere with a broadband link. But I think $50 is about the going rate for a packaged Linux distro. Isn't Mandrake about $50? If you can afford it, it wouldn't kill you to just shell out the $50 and support your favorite OS.;)
Some other things to consider. I happen to use sarge for all my home machines, and I wonder if you'll be happy with it over a dialup connection. I assume you are using sarge because you want to be on the bleeding edge, so remember when you burn those sarge CDs, they're gonna be out of date in 24 hours. Not horriably out of date, but if you burn sarge CDs and wait more than a few weeks to install, your first apt-get upgrade is gonna blow donkeys over dialup. Maybe you'd be happier with woody if you don't mind using old versions of stuff?
The other thing to consider is that maybe you'd be happier with Gentoo? Then you're only downloading compressable source rather than whole binary packages.
I mean, I'm sure people use sarge over dialup, but I know that if I don't apt-get upgrade for a few weeks or so it's a pretty big download.
It definitely uses grub by default, but I think you can still use lilo if you go into expert mode.
But what's wrong with grub? It's actually really easy to recover if you mess it up since you can just manually type in where you want to boot from at the boot prompt. With lilo, you get to go find your rescue disk if you mess it up.
to not make a lilo rescue disk like the install process instructs you. For shame.;)
Ok, so I don't do it either. Maybe you'd like grub better than lilo, though? With grub, you can just type in the partition you want to boot from and what you want to boot and let it boot for you. All from the boot prompt. You don't need to have your boot preconfigured (although you can, and should, preconfigure your most common boot schemes... unless you really enjoy typing and interactive booting).
Also, to help with your current issue, you might enjoy the rescue disk that comes with GNU parted. It's pretty good and lets you do lots of stuff.
right here. The current official installer (woody) just installs a base system with nothing on it other than, like, ls and rm, and then drops you into dselect to fend for yourself.
Why is that a problem? I'm glad you asked. dselect is a list of all 10,000 or so debian packages and you get to choose which ones you want. There goes your saturday. And sunday. And monday. Oh, did I mention dselect is also a pain to learn how to use?
Debian is great if you already know how to use it. I love debian. But it has a steep-ass learning curve.
Don't get me wrong, I use Debian exclusively and I think it's great. But there is no way you can say that debian-installer is on par with the Mandrakes of the world. Is it easy to use debian-installer to blow away an old system and get the deb base installed? Yeah, it's reasonably easy. But to actually make the machine do something useful you've basically got two choices: aptitude, which is not easy to learn in 5 minutes and is too fine-grained, and tasksel which is too coarse-grained.
This is something Slackware had right way back in 1996. The fact that in 2004 the current "official" non-beta installer for debian requires the user to use dselect is borderline criminal. If I was going to show someone how great Linux was, there is no way in hell I'd hand him a debian-installer CD. Mandrake is a possiblity, so is Fedora, or Slackware. But debian-installer? Hahahahaha. Yer funny. I'd love to see my mom try to use it. Hahaha.
Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?
Not likely. Google doesn't tend to do sucky things, and wiping out someone's legitimate email account, even if the thing is in beta, would really suck. How can you test the service without giving out your address, and if their users are actually using the accounts, I don't see how they could feel justified in deleting them.
I can confirm that you can get a cheesburger in Jerusalem at the McDonalds on Ben Yehudah street. If you order a big mac, they will ask whether or not you want cheese on it. I once blogged (before there was even such a thing as blogging) that the differences between a #1 there and in the states was that there, it costs twice as much for half as much food, they ask you if you want cheese on your big mac, and you can order in Hebrew if you want.
My orinoco and d-link cards both work fine under debian. For fun, try putting a knoppix cd in and see if it detects your card. you might be pleasantly surprised.
Arafat is the leader of Fatah, a terrorist organization which contains several smaller terrorist organizations like the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade (Tanzim). Hamas is a competing terrorist organization that Arafat only wishes he could control.
I've fired people for cause before, and even if someone calls, you can't say: "We fired him because he was a drunk". The best you can say is "Things did not work out with him".
This is not quite true. Legally, you could say "When Fred reported to work on March 19, 2004, he behaved in an intoxicated fashion and smelled of liquor. Company policy prohibits employees from being intoxicated at work, so Fred was terminated for cause." You could say that becaus the truth is a defense in a libel/slander suit (your link mentions this).
Now if you went around saying that would you be guilty of slander? No. But could you be sued? Yes. This is why many companies will only confirm dates of employment and job title. They don't want the cost and headache of a lawsuit.
My orinoco and d-link cards both worked in linux with zero tweaking. That's more than I can say for fscking windoze, tho. Tinkered a while with my dad's winxp laptop trying to get the d-link card to work. Gave up and gave him the orinoco card, which worked.
Dude, you can change your mac address through windows. Don't remember how and don't have access to a windoze box to tell you, but you should be able to find it quick. Just use kimset to find a mac addr.
Where do you live? I need some free internet.
Not a compelling reason to switch.
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You can easily do virtual domains and spam filtering in qmail. Virtual domains you can read about in "Life With Qmail". For spam filtering and virus checking,
apt-get qmail-qfilter clamav spamassassin
and you're there. On the other hand, you may have other reasons to change MTAs. I'm actually thinking of switching from qmail to courier since I already use courier for IMAP, so it just makes sense to use the courier MTA, too. Also, like you, I hate the oddball qmail license. I also hate the way qmail installs weird shit all over my system. Come to think of it, I don't even remember why I chose qmail other than the hate of sendmail.
So I don't care if I reply to myself. But I just reread the site and the 269 sheks includes tax. The 288 NIS figure was if you pay monthly for the whole year. Ahhh well.
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Gimme a break. This guy doesn't know what unallocated space is. All he knows is that going to jail for 20 days is a hell of a lot better than going to jail for years, so he pleads guilty.
Anyhow, does it really matter if it's unallocated to any partition or unallocated on an active partition? How's a non-geek gonna find those files? Does your grandfather have the technical expertise to recover files from unallocated space? The fact is he was not the only one with control of that machine. He is not even the original owner of that machine. How on earth is that not reasonable doubt? Because he couldn't afford a decent lawyer.
At least justice has been served, I guess. We ruined some guy's life who never did anything to harm anyone. I guess we should all be happy now.
Ok, here's what prolly happened:
- Dude with his drive in two partitions downloads a bunch of pr0n and stores it on
/dev/hda2 (or Windoze equivalent) - Porn-viewing dude decides to sell his computer on eBay.
- Realizes that he can't very well sell it to someone when it's got child pr0n on it or he'll be goin' to jail
- Nukes
/dev/hda2 partition and thinks "ok, it's gone now. I'm in the clear". - Sells it to "Jack"
- Jack gets his computer analyzed by the cops.
- Jack gets fucked by the system.
Can I be a reporter now?You're right, that was a total surprise.
If you have a referral to spare, could you please refer "google@NOSPAM.pizzaman.dyndns.org"? I would certainly be most greatful. :)
My point is Gartner just sits there and makes stupid recommendations. If we all did what Gartner told us to do, we'd be so busy switching our OS, restructuring our business, Offshoring, Onshoring, Rightshoring, Downsizing, concentrating on core competencies, adding new revenue streams, etc. that we would never get anything done.
Maybe that's why they never actually do anything. Because they're following their own advice.
First they say you shouldn't use Linux. Now, they don't want us using Windows 'cuz of worms. Tell me, gartner, what should I do? Oh, that's right, you don't ever do anything. You just make stupid recommendations.
Using the proxy system correctly:
You enter as your bid, the maximum you are willing to pay for the item you are bidding on.
Using the proxy system incorrectly:
You enter the minimum bid. Someone outbids you. You enter the next minimum bid. Someone outbids you. Someone else outbids. You get in a bidding war with some other twit in Toledo. And you wonder why eBay sucks so much.
If you would simply use the proxy system correctly, there would be no issues (yes, I snipe). If you are willing to pay $50 for an item, don't bid $26.32 on it. Bid $50. Then, if I come along and snipe at $45 with 1 second left in the auction, it doesn't matter. You will win. It wouldn't matter to you if I bid with 1 second left or 1 day left. The outcome would be the same.
But that is why I snipe. Because there are too many people who come in and say, well, I'll bid $26. Then someone outbids them and they are like, well I'm not losing this auction over $2. So they bid $28. And the bidding war ensues.
Me, I don't like wars. I don't like emotion. If I'm willing to pay $50, I'm willing to pay $50, so I bid at the last second. If I win, I win. If I lose, I lose. But I don't get all heated up in some bidding war.
How much does adsense pay per click, anyhow? They don't say on their website, but I was always curious.
Electronic locks can be either "fail-safe" or "fail-secure". Fail-safe means they unlock when the power fails and, you guessed it, fail-secure means they lock when losing power and won't unlock until power is restored.
Some other things to consider. I happen to use sarge for all my home machines, and I wonder if you'll be happy with it over a dialup connection. I assume you are using sarge because you want to be on the bleeding edge, so remember when you burn those sarge CDs, they're gonna be out of date in 24 hours. Not horriably out of date, but if you burn sarge CDs and wait more than a few weeks to install, your first apt-get upgrade is gonna blow donkeys over dialup. Maybe you'd be happier with woody if you don't mind using old versions of stuff?
The other thing to consider is that maybe you'd be happier with Gentoo? Then you're only downloading compressable source rather than whole binary packages.
I mean, I'm sure people use sarge over dialup, but I know that if I don't apt-get upgrade for a few weeks or so it's a pretty big download.
But what's wrong with grub? It's actually really easy to recover if you mess it up since you can just manually type in where you want to boot from at the boot prompt. With lilo, you get to go find your rescue disk if you mess it up.
Ok, so I don't do it either. Maybe you'd like grub better than lilo, though? With grub, you can just type in the partition you want to boot from and what you want to boot and let it boot for you. All from the boot prompt. You don't need to have your boot preconfigured (although you can, and should, preconfigure your most common boot schemes... unless you really enjoy typing and interactive booting).
Also, to help with your current issue, you might enjoy the rescue disk that comes with GNU parted. It's pretty good and lets you do lots of stuff.
Why is that a problem? I'm glad you asked. dselect is a list of all 10,000 or so debian packages and you get to choose which ones you want. There goes your saturday. And sunday. And monday. Oh, did I mention dselect is also a pain to learn how to use?
Debian is great if you already know how to use it. I love debian. But it has a steep-ass learning curve.
This is something Slackware had right way back in 1996. The fact that in 2004 the current "official" non-beta installer for debian requires the user to use dselect is borderline criminal. If I was going to show someone how great Linux was, there is no way in hell I'd hand him a debian-installer CD. Mandrake is a possiblity, so is Fedora, or Slackware. But debian-installer? Hahahahaha. Yer funny. I'd love to see my mom try to use it. Hahaha.
Now that's what I call a dead Proxomitron!
My orinoco and d-link cards both work fine under debian. For fun, try putting a knoppix cd in and see if it detects your card. you might be pleasantly surprised.
Arafat is the leader of Fatah, a terrorist organization which contains several smaller terrorist organizations like the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade (Tanzim). Hamas is a competing terrorist organization that Arafat only wishes he could control.
Now if you went around saying that would you be guilty of slander? No. But could you be sued? Yes. This is why many companies will only confirm dates of employment and job title. They don't want the cost and headache of a lawsuit.
My orinoco and d-link cards both worked in linux with zero tweaking. That's more than I can say for fscking windoze, tho. Tinkered a while with my dad's winxp laptop trying to get the d-link card to work. Gave up and gave him the orinoco card, which worked.
Where do you live? I need some free internet.
and you're there. On the other hand, you may have other reasons to change MTAs. I'm actually thinking of switching from qmail to courier since I already use courier for IMAP, so it just makes sense to use the courier MTA, too. Also, like you, I hate the oddball qmail license. I also hate the way qmail installs weird shit all over my system. Come to think of it, I don't even remember why I chose qmail other than the hate of sendmail.
Blah.
So I don't care if I reply to myself. But I just reread the site and the 269 sheks includes tax. The 288 NIS figure was if you pay monthly for the whole year. Ahhh well.