As if we didn't have enough problems getting Steam and the patches - they don't/. on their servers too!
And anyone who actually plays with Steam knows what I'm talking about.
It's quite simple, but expensive.
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I was lucky enough to get my office to pay for a LaCie Bigger Disk. It's one terabyte of space, and we don't have to worry about losing my shares or work.
That's got everything you need on it - it's a full, live-on-CD version of Linux, and it's completely free. Boot off it, glue the CD-drives shut, and you're good. You'd need small hard drives for it, naturally, and quite a bit of memory (~512MB should do fine), but that'd do _very_ nicely for a workstation - KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and a bunch of other things that make a workstation a workstation.
How about the bastards who make browser hijackers? Removing CoolWebSearch's affiliates wastes so much goddamn time at my office, it's literally taking nearly three hours a week.
And don't deny it - their affiliates DDoSed SpywareInfo because it told people how to remove their bastardly malware and provided CWShredder.
I say we go after them, drain their coffers dry, and donate the funds to the Mozilla Foundation or something.
I can just see it now - Mickey pops up, a smile on his face and a shotgun in his hands.
"Ho ho, kiddies, I'm afraid you can't do that! It's called copyright infringement, and if you do," he cocks the shotgun and points it at the user, "I'm going to blow up your fucking computer, so put the fucking mouse down, bitch, and move away from the keyboard before the mouse gets mad! Ho ho!"
SWI went against the bastards who create scumware and spyware (in this case a pay-per-click search engine's Russian "affiliates") and got DDoSed for a month because they were inhibiting the profit of a criminal organization. Over $5,000 of damage was done (ask Mike Healan), and that's enough to qualify. Where's the action against the rats who perpetrated that?
It won't do jack if the attack is by domain name, a la the one a certain bastard search company targeted at spywareinfo.com and merijn.org a while back. Target by domain name, and under this new system, you're guaranteed to be off the net permanently.
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As if we didn't have enough problems getting Steam and the patches - they don't /. on their servers too!
And anyone who actually plays with Steam knows what I'm talking about.
I was lucky enough to get my office to pay for a LaCie Bigger Disk. It's one terabyte of space, and we don't have to worry about losing my shares or work.
Just wrap your damn passport in aluminum foil already.
Titanic.
Gigli.
I would use Knoppix.
That's got everything you need on it - it's a full, live-on-CD version of Linux, and it's completely free. Boot off it, glue the CD-drives shut, and you're good. You'd need small hard drives for it, naturally, and quite a bit of memory (~512MB should do fine), but that'd do _very_ nicely for a workstation - KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and a bunch of other things that make a workstation a workstation.
Tht just means I have to ship them more Monopoly money.
Damn, and I had enough to survive Boardwalk before this...
Than Lemmiwinks.
After all, god knows the BSA's going to try to jam it up our asses anyways.
Actually, I was thinking of a DRM-circumventing chisel and mallet, but then could I get sued under the DMCA?
Could this possibly tie in with their crappy newly-released PCs? I'd love to get one of those and tear it apart to see what DRM they've put in.
Mickey with a shotgun saying something about a "motherfucking IP infringer" comes to mind...
How about the bastards who make browser hijackers? Removing CoolWebSearch's affiliates wastes so much goddamn time at my office, it's literally taking nearly three hours a week.
And don't deny it - their affiliates DDoSed SpywareInfo because it told people how to remove their bastardly malware and provided CWShredder.
I say we go after them, drain their coffers dry, and donate the funds to the Mozilla Foundation or something.
Disney-based DRM to boot.
I can just see it now - Mickey pops up, a smile on his face and a shotgun in his hands.
"Ho ho, kiddies, I'm afraid you can't do that! It's called copyright infringement, and if you do," he cocks the shotgun and points it at the user, "I'm going to blow up your fucking computer, so put the fucking mouse down, bitch, and move away from the keyboard before the mouse gets mad! Ho ho!"
Were the IBM e-mails legitimately given during discovery, or were they given to SCO by a disgruntled employee?
There's also the possibility that they were forged.
Can you restrict access to, say, changing the channel depending on priviliges?
And just how the hell can you log in on a remote control anyways? What would the command prompt look like?
What every Slashdotter does - download porn!
SWI went against the bastards who create scumware and spyware (in this case a pay-per-click search engine's Russian "affiliates") and got DDoSed for a month because they were inhibiting the profit of a criminal organization. Over $5,000 of damage was done (ask Mike Healan), and that's enough to qualify. Where's the action against the rats who perpetrated that?
And this kinda describes it, too.
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http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&da
At my office (elementary school), I'm stuck with a network made up of 98, 2K, and XP machines, and they're 95% Dell.
At UH-D, where I go to school, it's _all_ Dell and Windows XP or 2K unless you're in a high-level CS class and you've got Linux.
I blame Dell and their cheap, bulk PCs - sell them cheap, throw in Windows, ensure a monoculture and continued upgrades from their company.
On the plus side, they're now notoriously easy to reghost if something goes wrong.
Those are great for presentations, but they're a pain to walk in front of, and using a pointer doesn't work too well.
However, they're great for graphics work. This fact is offset by the fact that they suck royally in Quake.
It won't do jack if the attack is by domain name, a la the one a certain bastard search company targeted at spywareinfo.com and merijn.org a while back. Target by domain name, and under this new system, you're guaranteed to be off the net permanently.
But default installations of his company's closed-source software kills systems.
Works with 0.9, blocks anything (hate to admit it, but I've used it on OSDN for Doubleclick crap), and allows for selectivity in blocking.
http://adblock.mozdev.org
Don't blame me - I just teched there at #216.
http://bestbuysux.org/cust.html
Only in Utah would the judicial system be crazy enough to allow two meritless suits like this one and a certain other company to go forward.
Hasn't got jack about the new lawsuits. Can anyone get a list of what IPs are being sued?
And in lesser news, thank god for dynamic IP addresses...
Because companies like Claria, WhenU, and CoolWebSearch have ample incentive to kill it in commission before we get news of it.