Cable STBs in the UK have a default credit limit of £30 AFAIK. If for some reason the box isn't polled or the return path fails, then the local service centre has to poll the STB to collect all the purchase information and reset credit limit.
IMHO it's more of a case of user error as opposed to vendor error. If a user wants to choose a certain password then s/he'll choose it regardless.
If an operating system requires a secure password, you'll typically end up with post-it notes on the monitor which in turn can be another security problem.
Since Roy of Sealand was still an English citizen, he was thus accused of extensive crimes in Britain and was summoned to an English court. The result of this lawsuit in Chelmsford, Essex was a spectacular success for Sealand's claim to sovereignty. In its judgment of 25 November 1968, the court declared that it was not competent in Roy of Sealand's case as it could not exert any jurisdiction outside of British national territory. This is the first de facto recognition of the Principality of Sealand. English law had ruled that Sealand was not part of the United Kingdom, nor did any other nation claim it, hence Prince Roy's declaration of a new Sovereign State was de facto upheld.
This very thing has happened in the UK with digital TV.
Our Government wanted to switch off the analogue transmitters in 2006, and it has already been pushed back until 2010 as a very low percentage of the population have digital, and not everybody can access DTT.
I didn't think it was implied that it was the readers' fault - I think Taco was simply surprised that it took two hours for someone to mention it to him, as I'm sure you've noticed all the "Dupe!" comments when an article is a dupe.
Downloading a copyrighted song or video from Kazaa or the like is akin to downloading child pornography - it's very much illegal, although filetrading is socially acceptable.
Would you agree in management guidelines banning the viewing of child pornography? Or do you feel that management trying to save the company from legal issues is too much like treating employees like school children?
If you arent going to use the Windows license, just sell it on eBay.
I'm afraid you can't do that and stay within the law, IIRC. OEM license is tied to one particular computer (motherboard/case?) so he can either use it or not use it.
I was sorting out my work inbox this afternoon and noticed the number of emails received today: 20 personal emails from coworkers and friends (yes, we are allowed) Around 10 from customers I have performed tech support duties with 20 from other departments connected with my work And at least 20-30 informational emails from our administation department which are essential to perform my job.
Yes it is an Exchange server, but that doesn't account for the external emails I send/receive from customers and other coworkers in the field, who use external mail servers.
Maybe you are referring to personal mail accounts, however, 10 is very limited - imho of course.
I had an interesting discussion last week with my father about usernames and given names. We were talking about the practise of googling. If you were to google on my name "Tim Farrell" you won't find me until page 4, however, a search on my username will give the comments I've posted here, and also some personal pages.
"very small scale" and "operating globally" sounds somewhat mutually exclusive.
Not necessarily - the internet is a global marketplace.
The OP has a small scale hosting service, which has a website. The website is available to anyone round the globe, 24/7 (not accounting for downtime). He doesn't mention what he uses for payment methods, but services such as Worldpay and even Paypal allow for funds transfer in many currencies.
When I have ever installed Windows XP or Office XP, the Activation program was quite clear that registration is not mandatory for use of the software, only the Activation process.
ntl doesn't have an upstream provider as such. ntl's UK and european backbone is peered at LINX in London. They are the network, the upstream provider.
It costs ntl comparitively peanuts compared to a normal OC3/T3 provider.
I have also tech supported some ntl customers with these distros. They are actually very simple to set up graphically - never tried in an xterm though.
That's 3% to all credit card orders. If I choose to purchase computer parts then I save that 3% by paying by debit card (Switch or Solo). IIRC, retailers pay 50p (UK) for each debit card transaction over a certain level, or a percentage under this level.
Whenever I have complete system failure - either due to hardware problems or too much fiddling about on my part - I have always found that without fail, my CD drives becomes unbootable, and trying to install from an OS boot disk successfully from my DVD requires more creativity that I have.
A boot floppy will (without fail in my case) take me to a prompt, be it A:\ or [tim@localhost tim] $.
The UK cable companies have literally gigabits worth of bandwidth flowing around in each neighbourhood.
I'm not an expert in cable systems in any means (I work in a call center and read documents and study diagrams in my spare time), however, we have two-way interactive TV here, customised for each user. I don't see much difference adding a software update to the EPG which instructs the headend Tivo (for lack of a better name) to record a certain show - our EPG also links with the UK Tivo and instructs that to record shows from the EPG.
Granted, the tech behind the network may be lame, but could do the job as being the first step to *proper* fiber lines.
I'm not sure about the US cable companies - UK cable companies carry all telco signals via the fiber to the mux - IIRC only at the DAs and the DPs 10 yards from the home is the signal properly split into copper pair and coax.
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Tim
If an operating system requires a secure password, you'll typically end up with post-it notes on the monitor which in turn can be another security problem.
Tim
Funny that - I've never received a single piece of spam to my main e-mail address, and I've been registered with NYT for some time.
Would you care to provide us with some insight into NYT's spamming practises?
Thanks :-)
Tim
Tim
You have a few options
Play nice, complete missions, hide from the cops etc
Go on a spree for a couple of minutes before being "Busted"
Use the cheat codes and have fun
It all depends on what you're looking for from a game.
Tim
Pr0n.
Tim
Since Roy of Sealand was still an English citizen, he was thus accused of extensive crimes in Britain and was summoned to an English court. The result of this lawsuit in Chelmsford, Essex was a spectacular success for Sealand's claim to sovereignty. In its judgment of 25 November 1968, the court declared that it was not competent in Roy of Sealand's case as it could not exert any jurisdiction outside of British national territory. This is the first de facto recognition of the Principality of Sealand. English law had ruled that Sealand was not part of the United Kingdom, nor did any other nation claim it, hence Prince Roy's declaration of a new Sovereign State was de facto upheld.
Seems the courts may think so.
Tim
How about for Uni/college students to and from dorms?
Tim
Our Government wanted to switch off the analogue transmitters in 2006, and it has already been pushed back until 2010 as a very low percentage of the population have digital, and not everybody can access DTT.
Tim
Tim
Downloading a copyrighted song or video from Kazaa or the like is akin to downloading child pornography - it's very much illegal, although filetrading is socially acceptable.
Would you agree in management guidelines banning the viewing of child pornography? Or do you feel that management trying to save the company from legal issues is too much like treating employees like school children?
Tim
I'm afraid you can't do that and stay within the law, IIRC. OEM license is tied to one particular computer (motherboard/case?) so he can either use it or not use it.
Tim
GUI Screenshots
Sorry, but large images not mirrored.
Tim
Why 10?
I was sorting out my work inbox this afternoon and noticed the number of emails received today:
20 personal emails from coworkers and friends (yes, we are allowed)
Around 10 from customers I have performed tech support duties with
20 from other departments connected with my work
And at least 20-30 informational emails from our administation department which are essential to perform my job.
Yes it is an Exchange server, but that doesn't account for the external emails I send/receive from customers and other coworkers in the field, who use external mail servers.
Maybe you are referring to personal mail accounts, however, 10 is very limited - imho of course.
Tim
Anyone care to post an *objective* view explaining failings in the NT kernel and also the failings in *nix based kernels?
Tim
Tim
Not necessarily - the internet is a global marketplace.
The OP has a small scale hosting service, which has a website. The website is available to anyone round the globe, 24/7 (not accounting for downtime). He doesn't mention what he uses for payment methods, but services such as Worldpay and even Paypal allow for funds transfer in many currencies.
What is your definition of global?
Tim
H:\>del /q c:\winnt\profiles\alluse~1\startm~1\programs\start up\cin.exet up\cin.exe
Could Not Find c:\winnt\profiles\alluse~1\startm~1\programs\star
H:\>cd\winnt The system cannot find the path specified.
H:\>echo "DefaultDomainName"="Z104764W" 1>>c:\winnt\admlogon.reg
H:\>echo "AutoAdminLogon"="1" 1>>c:\winnt\admlogon.reg
H:\>echo "DefaultUserName"="administrator" 1>>c:\winnt\admlogon.reg
H:\>echo "DefaultPassword"="" 1>>c:\winnt\admlogon.reg
H:\>c:\winnt\reged it /s admlogon.reg
H:\>del /q c:\winnt\profiles\alluse~1\startm~1\programs\start up\*.*t up\USERS file check.lnk
Access is denied.
c:\winnt\profiles\alluse~1\startm~1\programs\star
H:\>copy c:\winnt\IE5.Lnk c:\winnt\profiles\alluse~1\startm~1\Programs\start up\I
E5.Lnk
The system cannot find the file specified.
H:\>
It looks scary enough.
Tim
Granted, I'm not a fan of product activation, however I was simply replying to the parent post.
Tim
Tim
It costs ntl comparitively peanuts compared to a normal OC3/T3 provider.
Tim
Redhat 7.1 - 8.0
Mandrake 8.1 upwards
Debian
Lycoris
Suse 5.2 upwards
I have also tech supported some ntl customers with these distros. They are actually very simple to set up graphically - never tried in an xterm though.
Tim
Tim
A boot floppy will (without fail in my case) take me to a prompt, be it A:\ or [tim@localhost tim] $.
From there, I can continue my domination :-)
I'm not an expert in cable systems in any means (I work in a call center and read documents and study diagrams in my spare time), however, we have two-way interactive TV here, customised for each user. I don't see much difference adding a software update to the EPG which instructs the headend Tivo (for lack of a better name) to record a certain show - our EPG also links with the UK Tivo and instructs that to record shows from the EPG.
Granted, the tech behind the network may be lame, but could do the job as being the first step to *proper* fiber lines.
I'm not sure about the US cable companies - UK cable companies carry all telco signals via the fiber to the mux - IIRC only at the DAs and the DPs 10 yards from the home is the signal properly split into copper pair and coax.
Tim