Actually, where I live, the poles are the responsibility (I'd say property, if I were 100% certain) of NSP, the electric company. USWest and MediaOne simply lease pole space from them.
Actually, I've got a Samba PDC running 2.0.0, and it works just beautifully. One of these days I'm going to put 2.0.3 or 2.0.4 on the box but I haven't yet gotten to it. If anyone can't find the details of it, email me (after removing spam protection) and I'll send you my config files.
Until someone comes up with a quick gender-neutral way to refer to an unknown individual, I think most people will continue to refer to said person as male.
While it would rock on NT, Microsoft wants an inordinate amount of money for their IFS development kit (I can't remembert if it is one or five grand). I'd be quite impressed if someone actually took the time to port XFS to NT, given the cost associated with the development tools.
Then again, IIRC, I have seen some sort of GPL'd IFS development kit. Anyone have any details on this?
Or any box running Java or any Mac or just about any platform which you can run the VNC client on because the server can be run on the NT box. It works like a charm, although its speed leaves something to be desired. But hey, its a hell of a lot cheaper than PC Anywhere licenses for all those servers we've got at work.
Why, pray tell, are all persons whose opinions disagree with those of the general consenus labelled as trolls? Some people around here sound like they could be my mother (Don't worry if you think you are; she's not computer-literate enough to know what Slashdot is). I use NT everyday, both by force (at work), and by choice (at home on my regular use PC). I've been using Linux since around kernel 1.2 (probably earlier, 1994 is a long ways back), but in all honesty, if NT were priced more like Linux, I'd be running NT Server on my server, rather than Linux.
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As for IIS being faster than Apache, of course it is. We all know the performance differences which happen when using fork/exec as opposed to spawning a new thread. There are two remedies for this performance difference. The first is to rewrite the Apache code to run threaded (not a particularly trivial task). The other (at least to bring the NT performance down a bit) would be to run Apache instead of IIS on the NT box.
The question was whether a UK citizen can have a US citizen prosecuted for violating a US law, not the UK law. I'd think it would be, but IANAL. Like you say, it should be looked into if it is happening.
I disagree with you on the extradition though. If I, being in the US violate a UK law whilst in the US, I cannot be extradited to the UK for prosecution. The extradition happens (or not) when a crime is committed, in violation of local law, in that locality and the perpetrator proceeds to flee the country, and is caught in the other country.
I would like to think that if the spam originated in the US that you would be able to pursue the matter in the courts in district of origination of the spam. After all, the perp would be violating US laws on US soil. Of course, you'd probably have to hop the pond to deal with it.
I was waiting for someone to point this out (only I couldn't connect yesterday to post it). This seems remarkably similar to the stickers placed on new laptops shortly before the Windoze Refund Day. Until they put it on their request page, I have agreed to nothing of the sort. Of course, I can see it and simply generate the request by hand.
Everyone seems to be pointing this out. Can't imagine why. Anyway, I doubt most people would want to subject themselves to a retina scan given the current state of the art. It requires the scanner to come into direct contact with the eye. Not exactly my idea of a good time.
Yeah, and that would only be another line under the logo.
Way to go Rob, et. al.
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.. was to do the geographical split. I've been in Maryland, where they are overlaid. The geographical split is significantly better, because you and all your neighbors have the same area code. People you're more likely to call are still 7 digit dialling, while those across the river require 10. I've gotten myself in the habit of dialling 10 digits for all my calls just because the MNPUC is going to do it again. Twice. Now, if only they can strip 612 from Minneapolis...
However, imagine you've got a business over in say Malaysia. You need only a few 20 extension groups for interfacing to your central PBX somewhere in America. Guess what, you not only get your 60 extensions, but you've got the entire block of 10000 numbers allocated to you. Why? Because that's the way the phone company does things. And we think the handing out of the original A's was ridiculous.
I believe sales taxes are already paid on most ISP service (I can't verify this. My access comes through the University, where the tac is tuition). How do you plan on tracking email messages for tax purposes anyway. A port 25 tax? We'll just have to move SMTP to another port.
It turns out that there are only 2 Veronica trademarks that have been registered numbers 1564500 and 1966658. Looking further, 1966658 is a trademark for the logo associated with the Veronica character, while 1564500 is for a typed drawing. These facts alone should be enough for NSI to laugh this one off (given of course that they've had their windectomy*). Because of this, there should never be any trademark infringement of domain names as common words can't be trademarked.
Does anyone else see it this way?
* For those who don't know, a windectomy is where a window is inserted into the abdomen so one can see where they're going with their head up their ass.
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Oh man. I may have to buy a different case now thanks to this link. In addition, they even have some cases which put SuperMicro's to shame.
Actually, where I live, the poles are the responsibility (I'd say property, if I were 100% certain) of NSP, the electric company. USWest and MediaOne simply lease pole space from them.
...and because it came from the NSA, it would be discarded as little more than unintelligible junk :).
I should have mentioned that I set it up based entirely on docs within the samba source distribution.
Actually, I've got a Samba PDC running 2.0.0, and it works just beautifully. One of these days I'm going to put 2.0.3 or 2.0.4 on the box but I haven't yet gotten to it. If anyone can't find the details of it, email me (after removing spam protection) and I'll send you my config files.
Until someone comes up with a quick gender-neutral way to refer to an unknown individual, I think most people will continue to refer to said person as male.
Presumably, the original poster didn't want to pay any cash for it so here's a better solution.
While it would rock on NT, Microsoft wants an inordinate amount of money for their IFS development kit (I can't remembert if it is one or five grand). I'd be quite impressed if someone actually took the time to port XFS to NT, given the cost associated with the development tools.
Then again, IIRC, I have seen some sort of GPL'd IFS development kit. Anyone have any details on this?
Wrong. I had it installed on a 486-66 with 32MB (but a lot more disk space), and it worked like a charm. Slow as hell, but it worked.
Or any box running Java or any Mac or just about any platform which you can run the VNC client on because the server can be run on the NT box. It works like a charm, although its speed leaves something to be desired. But hey, its a hell of a lot cheaper than PC Anywhere licenses for all those servers we've got at work.
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Why, pray tell, are all persons whose opinions disagree with those of the general consenus labelled as trolls? Some people around here sound like they could be my mother (Don't worry if you think you are; she's not computer-literate enough to know what Slashdot is). I use NT everyday, both by force (at work), and by choice (at home on my regular use PC). I've been using Linux since around kernel 1.2 (probably earlier, 1994 is a long ways back), but in all honesty, if NT were priced more like Linux, I'd be running NT Server on my server, rather than Linux.
/End Flame Bait
As for IIS being faster than Apache, of course it is. We all know the performance differences which happen when using fork/exec as opposed to spawning a new thread. There are two remedies for this performance difference. The first is to rewrite the Apache code to run threaded (not a particularly trivial task). The other (at least to bring the NT performance down a bit) would be to run Apache instead of IIS on the NT box.
The question was whether a UK citizen can have a US citizen prosecuted for violating a US law, not the UK law. I'd think it would be, but IANAL. Like you say, it should be looked into if it is happening.
I disagree with you on the extradition though. If I, being in the US violate a UK law whilst in the US, I cannot be extradited to the UK for prosecution. The extradition happens (or not) when a crime is committed, in violation of local law, in that locality and the perpetrator proceeds to flee the country, and is caught in the other country.
IANAL
I would like to think that if the spam originated in the US that you would be able to pursue the matter in the courts in district of origination of the spam. After all, the perp would be violating US laws on US soil. Of course, you'd probably have to hop the pond to deal with it.
I was waiting for someone to point this out (only I couldn't connect yesterday to post it). This seems remarkably similar to the stickers placed on new laptops shortly before the Windoze Refund Day. Until they put it on their request page, I have agreed to nothing of the sort. Of course, I can see it and simply generate the request by hand.
Me thinks this is a sort of Death Thrash of NSI.
Everyone seems to be pointing this out. Can't imagine why. Anyway, I doubt most people would want to subject themselves to a retina scan given the current state of the art. It requires the scanner to come into direct contact with the eye. Not exactly my idea of a good time.
Yeah, and that would only be another line under the logo.
Way to go Rob, et. al.
.. was to do the geographical split. I've been in Maryland, where they are overlaid. The geographical split is significantly better, because you and all your neighbors have the same area code. People you're more likely to call are still 7 digit dialling, while those across the river require 10. I've gotten myself in the habit of dialling 10 digits for all my calls just because the MNPUC is going to do it again. Twice. Now, if only they can strip 612 from Minneapolis...
However, imagine you've got a business over in say Malaysia. You need only a few 20 extension groups for interfacing to your central PBX somewhere in America. Guess what, you not only get your 60 extensions, but you've got the entire block of 10000 numbers allocated to you. Why? Because that's the way the phone company does things. And we think the handing out of the original A's was ridiculous.
Amen to that. I've got a pair of the huge In-Win 11-disk towers. However, I must say that the translucency is kinda cool.
There's a clue stick for you.
I believe sales taxes are already paid on most ISP service (I can't verify this. My access comes through the University, where the tac is tuition). How do you plan on tracking email messages for tax purposes anyway. A port 25 tax? We'll just have to move SMTP to another port.
Has anyone actually looked this up on the USPTO web page? I just did, and here are the search results.
It turns out that there are only 2 Veronica trademarks that have been registered numbers 1564500 and 1966658. Looking further, 1966658 is a trademark for the logo associated with the Veronica character, while 1564500 is for a typed drawing. These facts alone should be enough for NSI to laugh this one off (given of course that they've had their windectomy*). Because of this, there should never be any trademark infringement of domain names as common words can't be trademarked.
Does anyone else see it this way?
* For those who don't know, a windectomy is where a window is inserted into the abdomen so one can see where they're going with their head up their ass.