Heh - funny - I go to the same college. Using our people-lookup service (affectionately known as Stalkervision), I can find school address, home address, etc. Of course, I don't give a damn, and can't be sure that it's the same person, so it doesn't matter.
Judge issues injuction against Kazaa Injunction issued against Kazaa Judge declares Kazaa violated the law Kazaa guilty Kazaa out of business Kazaa filing for bankruptcy Company X buying Kazaa's assests Company X steps forward, buys Kazaa's assets Ask Slashdot: Whatever happened to Company X? Ask Slashdot: Where did Company X go?
though it has never worked quite as well on the Mac as it has on the PC
Are you kidding? I've used IE on both Mac and Windows, and have to say that the Mac version is much better (though still worse than Chimera). Ditto for MS Office. It seems that when MS formed their Mac division, all of the good programmers flocked to it...
Even if the Mozilla team did come up with this idea, it would never be implemented. Why? Standards compliance. That's been their goal from the beginning - they would never break a standard, especially as fundamental as TCP/IP.
This just goes to show the differences between Microsoft and many open source projects. Microsoft didn't care at all about the impacts of this decision - as long as it makes IE and IIS look faster, it's in. However, Mozilla/Apache/etc. aren't willing to sell out.
I have an unusual situation, but which can be modified to work for others. We own the house next to ours (low-income neighborhood, $20k house) in which we have offices. The server room is the basement of that house. Since we wanted to share the office DSL line with the home PC's, we buried a cat5 cable between the two buildings, connecting their networks. In addition to providing internet connectivity, it also allowed us to host a backup server at home. All data is stored on the servers in the office, and the backup server (two 120G HD's in a RAID array) backs up all of the computers on a nightly basis.
Depending on how much you trust your neighbors, you could do something similar, though you'd probably want to use wifi instead of a cable. Take an older PC, install Linux on it, put a large enough hard drive in it, and copy files via SSH, negating the need for any kind of wifi "security." A great product to do this automatically is BackupPC. It supports both Windows and *nix clients, though it uses the unencrypted SMB protocol for Windows boxes. This is what I've been using, and it works great.
My company is run out of the house next to mine, and we have a cat5 cable running under the driveway to connect the two. This allows me to have a backup server at home that provides automatic offsite backup. I put together a machine that includes a 2ghz Athlon and two 120 gig 7200 RPM drives in a RAID array for backup. The box runs Gentoo Linux and uses BackupPC for automatic unattended backups.
Of course, most people don't have the extra cash for that lying around (I had the business credit card, hehehe) but it is certainly easier and more cost effective than tape.
BTW, the backup server backs up around 10 machines (mix of Linux and Windows) with around 120 gig of data. It keeps up to two weeks of backups at a time (two full backups and twelve incremental backups). Current HD usage is about 33% due to compression.
Small size and battery life? Try the Fujitsu Lifebook P-series. Advertised 14 hours battery life, though I only get around 10 with the brightness all the way up.
Get a laptop with a Transmeta chip. I have a Fujitsu P-2046 with an 800 mhz Crusoe, and it goes all day (they rate it at 14 hours, I get around 10 with full brightness, and close to 15 when it's closed and just playing MP3's). They use a similar technology to Intel's speedstep, except that it will scale all the way up to 100% of rated speed if needed (I don't think Intel's will do this). Also, you can select how high you want it to scale (in Linux, there's a simple utility to do this).
Actually, that still would be the case. Sat providers are facing increasing competition from cable, which is perceived as being easier, more reliable, and cheaper. (which many of us know is not true) There's already only one mammoth cable provider per area (ATT in my area) - why not create a mammoth sat provider to give them some competition?
One problem with this strategy - the Canadian government is more liberal than the US government. The question is: would Canada have the balls to prosecute them?
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Heh - funny - I go to the same college. Using our people-lookup service (affectionately known as Stalkervision), I can find school address, home address, etc. Of course, I don't give a damn, and can't be sure that it's the same person, so it doesn't matter.
Actually, more like:
Judge issues injuction against Kazaa
Injunction issued against Kazaa
Judge declares Kazaa violated the law
Kazaa guilty
Kazaa out of business
Kazaa filing for bankruptcy
Company X buying Kazaa's assests
Company X steps forward, buys Kazaa's assets
Ask Slashdot: Whatever happened to Company X?
Ask Slashdot: Where did Company X go?
though it has never worked quite as well on the Mac as it has on the PC
Are you kidding? I've used IE on both Mac and Windows, and have to say that the Mac version is much better (though still worse than Chimera). Ditto for MS Office. It seems that when MS formed their Mac division, all of the good programmers flocked to it...
Even if the Mozilla team did come up with this idea, it would never be implemented. Why? Standards compliance. That's been their goal from the beginning - they would never break a standard, especially as fundamental as TCP/IP.
This just goes to show the differences between Microsoft and many open source projects. Microsoft didn't care at all about the impacts of this decision - as long as it makes IE and IIS look faster, it's in. However, Mozilla/Apache/etc. aren't willing to sell out.
Even better, if they decide to go their own separate ways.
I can just here Judge Jackson saying, "Ha! told-ya-so! It was for your own good!"
Interesting... so religious groups will have to go from book-burning to book-boiling. Not a bad change, IMO.
Shouldn't be too hard - many have made the change when dealing with people already.
...I've done that (no, it was not at a university's student center, or anywhere in public for that matter). I don't actually use it though.
Except that 4 (or 5) would be "Pay ridiculous long distance fees," so 5 (or 6) would never happen.
Let's try to mash all the LOTR submissions into one... by CmdrTaco
Hey, this article looks familiar.
Actually I'm in a city of 200,000 people with a metro area of about a million. Have you ever heard of a student discount?
The Ring has to be about the worst movie I've seen in a while. One quote convinced me that my $5.50 was better spent:
"She never sleeps!" (said in a hushed, scared, excited tone)
Can you get any more cliché?
Microsoft's profit margins are over 80% on Windows - they're still making a profit unless they discount it to almost nothing.
Or, if you have a Gigabyte mobo, you're all set. Just don't sync the dual bios until you're sure it's working.
Think how targetted the ads on your favorite radio station are. That's how targetted the billboards can be. Is that really such a great privacy risk?
So I'm gonna have to wait 3 years before someone can get the performance they had back in 1984?
That should be the name of the next Windows!
Windows 1984 - 1984 boot times, 1984 freedom
It was probably already taken... Except, wouldn't that prove that evisa was there first? Hmm... slightly confusing.
I have an unusual situation, but which can be modified to work for others. We own the house next to ours (low-income neighborhood, $20k house) in which we have offices. The server room is the basement of that house. Since we wanted to share the office DSL line with the home PC's, we buried a cat5 cable between the two buildings, connecting their networks. In addition to providing internet connectivity, it also allowed us to host a backup server at home. All data is stored on the servers in the office, and the backup server (two 120G HD's in a RAID array) backs up all of the computers on a nightly basis.
Depending on how much you trust your neighbors, you could do something similar, though you'd probably want to use wifi instead of a cable. Take an older PC, install Linux on it, put a large enough hard drive in it, and copy files via SSH, negating the need for any kind of wifi "security." A great product to do this automatically is BackupPC. It supports both Windows and *nix clients, though it uses the unencrypted SMB protocol for Windows boxes. This is what I've been using, and it works great.
It'd be cheaper to get another hard drive.
My company is run out of the house next to mine, and we have a cat5 cable running under the driveway to connect the two. This allows me to have a backup server at home that provides automatic offsite backup. I put together a machine that includes a 2ghz Athlon and two 120 gig 7200 RPM drives in a RAID array for backup. The box runs Gentoo Linux and uses BackupPC for automatic unattended backups.
Of course, most people don't have the extra cash for that lying around (I had the business credit card, hehehe) but it is certainly easier and more cost effective than tape.
BTW, the backup server backs up around 10 machines (mix of Linux and Windows) with around 120 gig of data. It keeps up to two weeks of backups at a time (two full backups and twelve incremental backups). Current HD usage is about 33% due to compression.
Small size and battery life? Try the Fujitsu Lifebook P-series. Advertised 14 hours battery life, though I only get around 10 with the brightness all the way up.
Get a laptop with a Transmeta chip. I have a Fujitsu P-2046 with an 800 mhz Crusoe, and it goes all day (they rate it at 14 hours, I get around 10 with full brightness, and close to 15 when it's closed and just playing MP3's). They use a similar technology to Intel's speedstep, except that it will scale all the way up to 100% of rated speed if needed (I don't think Intel's will do this). Also, you can select how high you want it to scale (in Linux, there's a simple utility to do this).
Actually, that still would be the case. Sat providers are facing increasing competition from cable, which is perceived as being easier, more reliable, and cheaper. (which many of us know is not true) There's already only one mammoth cable provider per area (ATT in my area) - why not create a mammoth sat provider to give them some competition?
One problem with this strategy - the Canadian government is more liberal than the US government. The question is: would Canada have the balls to prosecute them?
Shame they had to have it in China - dang dictatorship must be contagious.
Why do you need a GUI on the server anyways? All it does is waste cycles.