OK, just for the heck of it I tried this to see what it actually does. When you create the "magic" extra partition, what it's actually doing is creating a bogus partition table entry that OVERLAPS with your primary partition. When I booted with a knoppix cd and used fdisk, it clearly showed the two partitions overlapping. partition 1, start sector 1, end sector 1737 partition 2, start sector 780, end sector 1737. Partition 2 is the new partition created by using the method.
I know this may seem obvious, but it will probably just make cash a more often-used form of payment. At least, when that's an option. This is IMHO just another case of the crack-down on the "mostly" law-abiding citizens of the country. There are much worse things the government should be spending resources on.
But of course, it's still all about the $$$. Easy revenue stream, big target.
I don't know where you are from, but I have never heard of such a thing.
I admin five systems that run on various flavors of DSL, located in three different cities in Indiana. They all use somewhere between 5 and 100 gigs of upstream transfer a month. And I know quite a few other people who have DSL that use it like crazy and have never heard any complaints from their ISP.
Would you mind pointing out some references for where this DSL capping is used? I may be rolling out a nationwide DSL project in the next few months - this would be very relevant.
They mention Fedora Core 1, but I believe that the support and distro changes RH made this year are a VERY significant event for OSS. Regardless of whether you think that it was a good thing, it was definitely a BIG thing.
But we already have that! Just have the router set the "evil bit" and we are all set. Heck, we've been talking about that one for quite some time! That should take care of prior art...
I have to respond to this. A friend of mine that runs a small shop in a mall has an old file server running NT4 Terminal Server Edition. It's an AT&T Pentium 90 with 128 MB RAM, and two 2 GB Narrow SCSI drives in a software mirror.
It serves files to five workstations running various flavors of windows, and their DOS-based Point of Sale system.
Other than the time we physically relocated the shop, it has had two reboots in the five years that it has been in service.
So, believe it or not, NT4 really can be a reliable server platform. Certainly not most times, but it will occassionally work just fine without ever needing to be kicked.
BTW, I have a dual PII server running RedHat 7.3 right next to the old server, just waiting to take over for when the NT4 box finally dies. I see no reason in removing it from service if it still runs and works fine.
Slashdot Mirror
OK, just for the heck of it I tried this to see what it actually does. When you create the "magic" extra partition, what it's actually doing is creating a bogus partition table entry that OVERLAPS with your primary partition.
When I booted with a knoppix cd and used fdisk, it clearly showed the two partitions overlapping.
partition 1, start sector 1, end sector 1737
partition 2, start sector 780, end sector 1737.
Partition 2 is the new partition created by using the method.
I know this may seem obvious, but it will probably just make cash a more often-used form of payment. At least, when that's an option. This is IMHO just another case of the crack-down on the "mostly" law-abiding citizens of the country. There are much worse things the government should be spending resources on.
But of course, it's still all about the $$$. Easy revenue stream, big target.
I don't know where you are from, but I have never heard of such a thing.
I admin five systems that run on various flavors of DSL, located in three different cities in Indiana. They all use somewhere between 5 and 100 gigs of upstream transfer a month. And I know quite a few other people who have DSL that use it like crazy and have never heard any complaints from their ISP.
Would you mind pointing out some references for where this DSL capping is used? I may be rolling out a nationwide DSL project in the next few months - this would be very relevant.
They mention Fedora Core 1, but I believe that the support and distro changes RH made this year are a VERY significant event for OSS. Regardless of whether you think that it was a good thing, it was definitely a BIG thing.
It took me five tries to get the PDF, so here is a mirror if anyone needs it.
xpsurvivalguide.pdf
But we already have that! Just have the router set the "evil bit" and we are all set. Heck, we've been talking about that one for quite some time! That should take care of prior art...
I'll save everyone some trouble, and get the obligatory usual comments over with now...
I, for one, welcome our new pre-installed overlords!
1. Have your OS pre-installed on HD's
2. ???
3. Profit!
Actually, click-n-run is probably their step 2. I wonder if it will work for them?
And yes, I know you can just add the debian sources and do an apt-get install packagename.
So freenet is an ethical dilemma? Next thing you know, we won't have our right of free speech!
Oh wait, nevermind....
As if the people who claim the NASA missions to the moon are hoaxes didn't have enough ammuntion already...
I have to respond to this. A friend of mine that runs a small shop in a mall has an old file server running NT4 Terminal Server Edition. It's an AT&T Pentium 90 with 128 MB RAM, and two 2 GB Narrow SCSI drives in a software mirror.
It serves files to five workstations running various flavors of windows, and their DOS-based Point of Sale system.
Other than the time we physically relocated the shop, it has had two reboots in the five years that it has been in service.
So, believe it or not, NT4 really can be a reliable server platform. Certainly not most times, but it will occassionally work just fine without ever needing to be kicked.
BTW, I have a dual PII server running RedHat 7.3 right next to the old server, just waiting to take over for when the NT4 box finally dies. I see no reason in removing it from service if it still runs and works fine.
So how long before they update this joke to IPV6?
Sheesh, if you are going to recycle it over and over again the least someone could do is update it.