Yep, I had a similar situation happen to me. My wife owns a web-based business and has a monthly newsletter people can signup for. It clearly states that it's only to be a monthly newsletter, but she wanted to start sending out weekly product offers to the 100+ people signed up to the list. It took some educating, but she finally got the idea that she'd risk losing those subscribers if they didn't get what they expected.
Oh, and it also helped that I run the actual site and mailing lists themselves and refused to let that sort of thing through. Muahaha!
"Cowles, who said his company rents 96 separate Internet accounts, said he schedules new connections with "tolerant" ISPs who only feign vigilance against spam."
How about modding a network switch? I can just imagine someone working the insides to allow for a Linux capable device, wire it to one of the ports and it would be virtually undetectable -- even the switch ports would work.
Yesterday my boss printed out the Sysadmin Day page and brought it to the weekly developers meeting (that I don't usually attend). People took it upon themselves to all sign it with "Good Job!" and such, and taped it to my office door while I was in the lab. Today my boss treated me to a partially liquid lunch. Who woulda thunk it?
Someone once speculated that Valve is slowly releasing updates and patches to TFC so that one day they'll release a patch with an update message that reads, "oh and by the way, this is TF2". It seems they keep adding features to TFC that I knew/read about being introduced in TF2.
I actually had the privilege of working on and releasing TF 2.8 and 2.9 for QW (my brief and subtle brush with fame). I actually was given the sources for what was to become TF2 way back before Rob and John got hired by Valve. It was going to be a free Quake 2 mod at the time. It's a shame that the two TF guys at Valve didn't mention their pal Ian in the article, who AFAIK worked on it right there with them from the start.
I've setup simple copy.bat scripts on Windows workstations like this, especially laptops. Just have the task run when the user logs in, and it runs a backup onto space on a server, then backup that server. Not the greatest way, bit it's worked for me.
Since it sounds like speed isn't really an issue with your projects, you can get relatively cheap USB-to-Parallel and USB-to-Serial converters. Buy a bunch of them if you want and throw them on a USB hub. I know first hand that the USB-to-serial is compatible with Linux (at least kernel 2.4.x) -- not sure about the other one.
Since the capability of using one's cable modem with the XBox is there, it's just a matter of attaching the XBox to a hub along with a packet sniffing system, then either alter the packets as they go in/out or just view them. Encryption is poor, since you're sacrificing performance if it's too effective. People already do this with Dark Age of Camelot, sniffing the packets and displaying maps on a Linux system, including where enemies are.
I figured they'll insert Padme into that ghost sequence at the end of Return of the Jedi (where you see Yoda, Obi-Wan and Anakin waving to Luke as the celebration fireworks go off)
*shrug*
They may be a bit more strict with naming conventions, but it'll never "force" people to roleplay. Seeing someone actually roleplay on the RP DaoC servers is shockingly rare. I see people refer to power buffs as "crack" more than as a spell.
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*SNIFF* "Hmm...smells like someone forgot a semicolon."
...to Luke's/Anakin's new hand.
Oh, and it also helped that I run the actual site and mailing lists themselves and refused to let that sort of thing through. Muahaha!
*cough*hotmail*cough*
Or you could always use this Google page to find what you need.
How about modding a network switch? I can just imagine someone working the insides to allow for a Linux capable device, wire it to one of the ports and it would be virtually undetectable -- even the switch ports would work.
Lessee, add a fridge to the bottom of the seat, then tap off of that for watercooling. Sounds nifty.
Add 'Buzzard' to that list and I think I was in that fraternity.
Yesterday my boss printed out the Sysadmin Day page and brought it to the weekly developers meeting (that I don't usually attend). People took it upon themselves to all sign it with "Good Job!" and such, and taped it to my office door while I was in the lab. Today my boss treated me to a partially liquid lunch. Who woulda thunk it?
HAH no I'm not Robin, check the link I provided. The name's "Gudlyf".
I actually had the privilege of working on and releasing TF 2.8 and 2.9 for QW (my brief and subtle brush with fame). I actually was given the sources for what was to become TF2 way back before Rob and John got hired by Valve. It was going to be a free Quake 2 mod at the time. It's a shame that the two TF guys at Valve didn't mention their pal Ian in the article, who AFAIK worked on it right there with them from the start.
Customer: What's this here 'Lindows' thingy on this here computer?
Clerk: Um...I guess it's just like Windows. It sounds like "Windows".
I've setup simple copy .bat scripts on Windows workstations like this, especially laptops. Just have the task run when the user logs in, and it runs a backup onto space on a server, then backup that server. Not the greatest way, bit it's worked for me.
Hm...so maybe really being called "Gopher" works in this case, eh?
Um where do I apply for that job? Do I get, like, a cool Gopher hat to wear around too?
Since it sounds like speed isn't really an issue with your projects, you can get relatively cheap USB-to-Parallel and USB-to-Serial converters. Buy a bunch of them if you want and throw them on a USB hub. I know first hand that the USB-to-serial is compatible with Linux (at least kernel 2.4.x) -- not sure about the other one.
Since the capability of using one's cable modem with the XBox is there, it's just a matter of attaching the XBox to a hub along with a packet sniffing system, then either alter the packets as they go in/out or just view them. Encryption is poor, since you're sacrificing performance if it's too effective. People already do this with Dark Age of Camelot, sniffing the packets and displaying maps on a Linux system, including where enemies are.
It's called they're-beta-testers-and-we-get-the-new-and-improv ed-version.
;)
I figured they'll insert Padme into that ghost sequence at the end of Return of the Jedi (where you see Yoda, Obi-Wan and Anakin waving to Luke as the celebration fireworks go off) *shrug*
....when it was called Mozilla.
They may be a bit more strict with naming conventions, but it'll never "force" people to roleplay. Seeing someone actually roleplay on the RP DaoC servers is shockingly rare. I see people refer to power buffs as "crack" more than as a spell.
Also, OpenOffice has a nice feature allowing you to save (print) documents to PDF. It's really just a conduit into GS, but still -- it's free.