That's the glory of having a virtual monopoly and charging me a hundred bucks a month for internet and basic digital cable.
You meant one hundred bucks a month for occasional internet and basic cable that works about half the time. I ended up getting credit for over ONE HALF of last month because I had called twice a day due to there being no TV signal, and the Internet connection going dead every 5 minutes. On top of this, at the same time, I got the notice of rates going up starting in January at the same time. I also continually was asked to call from my home phone because my Lingo voip provided me with a number based in Alexandria, and I am in Woodbridge, VA. I found it absurd that they don't have a problem taking this number as my billing phone number, and I'm sure they would call it quickly if I hadn't paid my bill, but they don't want me calling them from it because the prefix doesn't match my location? That's just silly.
I had the same thoughts as yourself on Live CDs until recently, when a friend of mine showed me what he uses Live CDs for. He codes on the side from his real job. When he's on a plane/etc, He takes his work laptop and boots an Ubuntu Live CD, and does his coding there, basically in a demo environment, where he can go ahead and email it to himself at home, save it to a personal usb drive, etc, all with it techincally never touching his emplyer's hard drive. This could be one of the few reasonable uses other than for demonstration purposes. My boss used a Knoppix CD to set up an Asterisk server, if you believe that, which is one of the dumbest uses I've ever seen, and fitting regarding the person I'm talking about...
Actually, you are right if you are discussing the same device I linked to. If you're talking about the Commodore 64 emulator that this thread is about, I don't know about the legalities involved with C64 roms, due to them being atleast 20 years old or so.
It would be interesting if someone could shed some light on legal issues that Miss Ellsworth could possibly face regarding this, if any?
I do, however, use my work email address as a trap for emails from Prometric and the like, so that I only get bothered with certification/testing details at work, rather than a personal email address. In that case though, you have to look at it as that I accept I will get crap from them, but it's something that I used that address for on purpose. That's about the extent of giving out my work address for anything other than work related matters.
Maybe it's just me and I'm one of the few lucky people in the world, but out of 5 regular email addresses that I use on a daily basis, I rarely if ever recieve spam, and during the workday, watching mailserver logs, the only people in my company getting silly amounts of spam (to me, one or two messages a day is just a minor annoyance) are people who click every popup and put their email addresses in every form available. If it wasn't for the built in spam filtering of Kerio Mail server, which is what we use here, it would probably be impossible for them to get any real work done, as out of 200 people, these 5 or so get more spam directed towards them than the rest of the company gets regular emails. Some common sense goes a long way in avoiding spam.
ACiD still rocks it, rad man should've started rapping a long time ago, he could've been a white kid from detroit... We're all still doodleboys at heart.
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What if your birthday is August 31st, which is now nonexistant? Would it just switch to August 29th, since that replaces August 31st in his calendar?
I had the same thoughts as yourself on Live CDs until recently, when a friend of mine showed me what he uses Live CDs for. He codes on the side from his real job. When he's on a plane/etc, He takes his work laptop and boots an Ubuntu Live CD, and does his coding there, basically in a demo environment, where he can go ahead and email it to himself at home, save it to a personal usb drive, etc, all with it techincally never touching his emplyer's hard drive. This could be one of the few reasonable uses other than for demonstration purposes. My boss used a Knoppix CD to set up an Asterisk server, if you believe that, which is one of the dumbest uses I've ever seen, and fitting regarding the person I'm talking about...
Actually, you are right if you are discussing the same device I linked to. If you're talking about the Commodore 64 emulator that this thread is about, I don't know about the legalities involved with C64 roms, due to them being atleast 20 years old or so. It would be interesting if someone could shed some light on legal issues that Miss Ellsworth could possibly face regarding this, if any?
that exact thing was the topic of a recent /. post about Nintendo lawsuits../ 1928240&tid=159
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/02
I do, however, use my work email address as a trap for emails from Prometric and the like, so that I only get bothered with certification/testing details at work, rather than a personal email address. In that case though, you have to look at it as that I accept I will get crap from them, but it's something that I used that address for on purpose. That's about the extent of giving out my work address for anything other than work related matters.
Maybe it's just me and I'm one of the few lucky people in the world, but out of 5 regular email addresses that I use on a daily basis, I rarely if ever recieve spam, and during the workday, watching mailserver logs, the only people in my company getting silly amounts of spam (to me, one or two messages a day is just a minor annoyance) are people who click every popup and put their email addresses in every form available. If it wasn't for the built in spam filtering of Kerio Mail server, which is what we use here, it would probably be impossible for them to get any real work done, as out of 200 people, these 5 or so get more spam directed towards them than the rest of the company gets regular emails. Some common sense goes a long way in avoiding spam.
first post!
he's always been our tool, even if he didn't know it. he thought he was in control of the whole thing, but really he was just our little puppet.
ACiD still rocks it, rad man should've started rapping a long time ago, he could've been a white kid from detroit... We're all still doodleboys at heart.