Don't know if it should be *red*, but out here in socal when we had the fires back a few months ago, the ash had caused the sky to be kind of a dirty yellow. A somewhat different kind of particulate, but that is a factor.
Aside from the 1 GB/mo being for NNTP only, they really don't care what you're doing with your connection, as long as you're not tying up their POPs or using it to spam. Besides, people (including myself) tend to run services on their brand of DSLs, and frankly, it's a good possibility that if you're running a server you're going to possibly pipe out a lotta packets.
One other factor though is local cost of living. You can survive in a bedroom in Orange County, CA for $6.75 per hour on full time and no frills, or you can go to a more remote part of the 'states and live on the $5.15 national standard. But the fact is, if techs were willing to work for peanuts, they'd be flipping burgers and being cashiers at Circle K or something.
The reason I'm not willing to work for minimum wage is because I can't AFFORD TO SURVIVE on minimum wage. Sure, move to BFE where you can, but wait, I can't actually afford to do that on, um, $6.75 per hour.
Never got one in all my time with Speakeasy for general usage - they only seem to restrict NNTP as far as consumption goes, and I imagine that's cause they farm out to Stupid^WSupernews or Giganews or something. Only time I had a hint of a problem was when we capped out my wife's NNTP account while downloading Frank Zappa MP3s.
From the beginning, it always had to do with the accidental erasure of files.
* When I was but a young tyke experimenting with the then obsolete Integer Basic setup for Apple 2, I discovered a copying utility. Now, under another copying program called Copy2+, a surefire way to correct errors on a floppy was to copy the disk onto itself. Not so in this other one - it systematically formatted the destination disk (which also happened to be the source disk) and wiped out its own source data. Oops.
* Much, MUCH later, when running OS/2 (!), I wiped out my config.sys file. Twice. Once when I wordwrapped it in emacs, another time by accidentally doing 'del *.*' in the / of the C: drive. I started mirroring the file onto a spare floppy shortly after the second incident.
* In 2001, I forwent OS/2 and installed Mandrake Linux. Now, Mandrake Linux (or is that GNU/Linux by SCO now? =^_^= ) by default installs an alias to 'rm -i' for rm. I found it annoying as hell at first, but it has more than once saved my sorry ass from rm -rf'ing my ~, so I leave the alias in place and let my lusers alter their own aliases.
Which brings me to my most recent technical gaff ever. Taking on users, running a web server, running my own NS1, and cutting into time that could be better spent doing things like (say) cuddling with my wife.
Wintel is less expensive to run than a Linux mainframe? Last I checked, it was just a little cheaper to run a small cluster of PCs than a mainframe, no matter what you ran on it.
Most of this comes from SE asia and places that are on blacklists anyway. Besides, it's easy enough to parse out that is a HTML construct such as what's above - just kill anything and look at what remains.
One thing that occurs to me is that perhaps a hack of ispell can be used for screening? I mention this because since a standard spellchecker generally uses fuzzy logic to correct spelling, by that logic, the inclusion of punctuation could be construed as misspelling - and therefore gets trapped a/o rejected depending on configuration.
The side effect is that, if you use an autochecker (or rather, "if ewe ewes anne otto cheque"), you might get a message rejection. But then again, I tend to yell at people who do that anyway. =^_^=
Banning a game because it might induce criminal activity is like banning a fork because it might encourage people to eat copious amounts of food that is not good for them.
Yes, I know, we were supposed to all be working in a paperless office ten years ago. So why not? Because electronica can be diddled with and altered. You can do it to paper, but it's a lot harder and can be proven otherwise.
Silliness aside about an Apple 2 being able to gather the news for us and feed it, the thing about wordsmithery is that there is a certain amount of creativity that needs to go into it. Otherwise you have the literary equivalent of the Backstreet Boys and such. Not a good mix.
People will pay about US$30-35 to have this and get directions based on numerous things, or they can hack it and find a way to collect the data locally. Most people who hack this aren't going to be the type to need somebody's help for $30/mo though, and many people who can't hack this but can read maps might just have it done.
So in the end, you'll be left with people who have an Onstar box and will rather pay the $30/mo as well as their cellphone bills, blissfully unaware that they can make 911 calls for free on disconnected cellphones.
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Well, I could say it, but I'd be lying....
OK, fine, I'm a furry fan, so sue me.
Assuming that SCO is hoping to commit corporate suicide, they are certainly making wise choices in fighting the likes of Google and IBM.
He committed a crime.
He got incarcerated.
QED...
Can't say I blame you, Jeff. Good show. =^^=
Don't know if it should be *red*, but out here in socal when we had the fires back a few months ago, the ash had caused the sky to be kind of a dirty yellow. A somewhat different kind of particulate, but that is a factor.
This time, maybe they're doing the Right Thing. MP3 files are kinda tangible, so you find hard evidence.
Aside from the 1 GB/mo being for NNTP only, they really don't care what you're doing with your connection, as long as you're not tying up their POPs or using it to spam. Besides, people (including myself) tend to run services on their brand of DSLs, and frankly, it's a good possibility that if you're running a server you're going to possibly pipe out a lotta packets.
One other factor though is local cost of living. You can survive in a bedroom in Orange County, CA for $6.75 per hour on full time and no frills, or you can go to a more remote part of the 'states and live on the $5.15 national standard. But the fact is, if techs were willing to work for peanuts, they'd be flipping burgers and being cashiers at Circle K or something.
The reason I'm not willing to work for minimum wage is because I can't AFFORD TO SURVIVE on minimum wage. Sure, move to BFE where you can, but wait, I can't actually afford to do that on, um, $6.75 per hour.
Never got one in all my time with Speakeasy for general usage - they only seem to restrict NNTP as far as consumption goes, and I imagine that's cause they farm out to Stupid^WSupernews or Giganews or something. Only time I had a hint of a problem was when we capped out my wife's NNTP account while downloading Frank Zappa MP3s.
Now imagine a beowulf cluster of them. You could play all those DVDs at the same time....
* When I was but a young tyke experimenting with the then obsolete Integer Basic setup for Apple 2, I discovered a copying utility. Now, under another copying program called Copy2+, a surefire way to correct errors on a floppy was to copy the disk onto itself. Not so in this other one - it systematically formatted the destination disk (which also happened to be the source disk) and wiped out its own source data. Oops.
* Much, MUCH later, when running OS/2 (!), I wiped out my config.sys file. Twice. Once when I wordwrapped it in emacs, another time by accidentally doing 'del *.*' in the / of the C: drive. I started mirroring the file onto a spare floppy shortly after the second incident.
* In 2001, I forwent OS/2 and installed Mandrake Linux. Now, Mandrake Linux (or is that GNU/Linux by SCO now? =^_^= ) by default installs an alias to 'rm -i' for rm. I found it annoying as hell at first, but it has more than once saved my sorry ass from rm -rf'ing my ~, so I leave the alias in place and let my lusers alter their own aliases.
Which brings me to my most recent technical gaff ever. Taking on users, running a web server, running my own NS1, and cutting into time that could be better spent doing things like (say) cuddling with my wife.
Wintel is less expensive to run than a Linux mainframe? Last I checked, it was just a little cheaper to run a small cluster of PCs than a mainframe, no matter what you ran on it.
A singing voice like hers can wake the dead.
Most of this comes from SE asia and places that are on blacklists anyway. Besides, it's easy enough to parse out that is a HTML construct such as what's above - just kill anything and look at what remains.
Good point, but the subject line is what's more important in this. Granted, you'll have to teach your users to actually not be stupid....
The side effect is that, if you use an autochecker (or rather, "if ewe ewes anne otto cheque"), you might get a message rejection. But then again, I tend to yell at people who do that anyway. =^_^=
Banning a game because it might induce criminal activity is like banning a fork because it might encourage people to eat copious amounts of food that is not good for them.
Perhaps the ones on Thinkgeek will get a few geek-flavored jobs....
Don't confuse me with the facts! =^^=
Yes, I know, we were supposed to all be working in a paperless office ten years ago. So why not? Because electronica can be diddled with and altered. You can do it to paper, but it's a lot harder and can be proven otherwise.
...says "wwwillem". =^_^=
Silliness aside about an Apple 2 being able to gather the news for us and feed it, the thing about wordsmithery is that there is a certain amount of creativity that needs to go into it. Otherwise you have the literary equivalent of the Backstreet Boys and such. Not a good mix.
So in the end, you'll be left with people who have an Onstar box and will rather pay the $30/mo as well as their cellphone bills, blissfully unaware that they can make 911 calls for free on disconnected cellphones.