ChoiceOne did this for me. They're a telco/DSL provider in the Northeast and Midwest, and so far they've been pretty good to work with, and cheaper than the competition.
Well, this article from the author of nmap does note that Win2000 uses the same TCP Initial Window value as FreeBSD and OpenBSD (the NT4 value is different). Hardly conclusive, but an interesting coincidence.
$100K seems pretty generous, depending on the price of the software. The standard seems to be "IN NO CASE SHALL ${VENDOR}'S LIABILITY EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE SOFTWARE."
The funny part is, the CDs arrived in the mail without anyone ordering them, and the package contained no printed manuals. In fact, the EULA represents about 95% of the text on the CD case.
But you're right - it looks like they charge about $20 for each copy of the manual.
If the contract violates the law, or your rights you do not have to abide by that contract. For instance, my rental agreement says something to the effect of "if at any time, any part of this document becomes illegal or otherwise violates a legal precedence this contract is null and void - a new one will need to be reinstated".
Strange - my rental agreement said almost exactly the opposite. Something like "If any part of this contract is found to be invalid, it shall have no effect on any other part of this contract, which shall remain in effect."
As for EULAs, I'm always surprised by the breadth of things that you're not allowed to do. The nearest random example: Symantec's Norton Antivirus Enterprise Solution Version 4.0 specifically forbids me to make copies of the documentation (a provision which I guess I've just violated). Need to create a setup guide for your users? Forget about giving them copies of the actual documentation.
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Well, okay, I was trying to keep it short, but here's two full years of data:
Wow. Do they really claim that usenet usage is flat? My Usenet provider tells a different story. Here's some statistics from news.alt.net, giving the amount of news they carry. These numbers are in average megabytes per *day*; that is, as of August, they pulled in 50 gigabytes of news per day.
I tend to agree that Usenet is still a useful way to exchange information and carry on discussions, but I don't think that text makes up the bulk of the increase.
For what it's worth, banner ad companies are starting to get in to the spamming business. Check out this news.com article for a discussion of doubleclick's entrance into the "direct email marketing" business.
Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for (and yes, I keep a Win32 partition around.
As other have guessed, I don't want to remove the heatsink for fear of voiding my warranty. I probably spent about $100 for the three-year warranty (not its actual cost, but as compared with buying from another retailer), so I'd feel silly voiding it within the first couple of months. I've had enough bad luck with other systems that having a warranty makes a big difference to me.
I'm sorry to see that it's an Intel utility for Intel chips. I just bought a K6-III-based system, and I'd love to have some verification that it's really a K6-III, and not a K6-2 or something else entirely. Operating systems just identify it as a K6-family chip. It does claim to be a K6-III in the BIOS, but that would seem to be fairly easy to fudge.
Also, I doubt that the Compaqs and Dells of the world misidentify what they're selling, but how many home users really buy from them? I bought from a web retailer who offered a competitive price and a good warranty, but I have very little information on the company itself. Maybe this is just as dumb as buying from eBay, but I'd like to think there's some kind of middle ground.
Uh, someone already called Amazon and Fisher-Price, and the listing is incorrect. There is no Linux version of this game. It was posted at LinuxToday before this story went up.
I didn't see any of the names from the GPG team there, which I think is a shame. GPG is really, really important - free access to strong encryption might define privacy for the next decade, or longer.
This reminds me of something I saw years ago, supposedly written in the mid-1970s. A paraphrase: "We don't know what the programming language of the 80s (or was it 90s?) will look like, but we know it will be called FORTRAN."
The evolution of computing ideas is a lot less predictable than it seems, and 2020 is an awfully long way away.
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ChoiceOne did this for me. They're a telco/DSL provider in the Northeast and Midwest, and so far they've been pretty good to work with, and cheaper than the competition.
Well, this article from the author of nmap does note that Win2000 uses the same TCP Initial Window value as FreeBSD and OpenBSD (the NT4 value is different). Hardly conclusive, but an interesting coincidence.
$100K seems pretty generous, depending on the price of the software. The standard seems to be "IN NO CASE SHALL ${VENDOR}'S LIABILITY EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE SOFTWARE."
The funny part is, the CDs arrived in the mail without anyone ordering them, and the package contained no printed manuals. In fact, the EULA represents about 95% of the text on the CD case.
But you're right - it looks like they charge about $20 for each copy of the manual.
Strange - my rental agreement said almost exactly the opposite. Something like "If any part of this contract is found to be invalid, it shall have no effect on any other part of this contract, which shall remain in effect."
As for EULAs, I'm always surprised by the breadth of things that you're not allowed to do. The nearest random example: Symantec's Norton Antivirus Enterprise Solution Version 4.0 specifically forbids me to make copies of the documentation (a provision which I guess I've just violated). Need to create a setup guide for your users? Forget about giving them copies of the actual documentation.
Well, okay, I was trying to keep it short, but here's two full years of data:
Oct-97 10017.41Nov-97 10559.49
Dec-97 11389.28
Jan-98 12215.80
Feb-98 13277.96
Mar-98 14551.41
Apr-98 15486.21
May-98 15142.07
Jun-98 15568.37
Jul-98 16907.34
Aug-98 18501.27
Sep-98 19020.49
Oct-98 21110.47
Nov-98 22781.61
Dec-98 23152.34
Jan-99 26604.56
Feb-99 26486.09
Mar-99 30351.37
Apr-99 32407.93
May-99 37458.31
Jun-99 39063.45
Jul-99 45325.55
Aug-99 50524.96
Sep-99 53721.93
Looks like pretty steady growth to me.
Wow. Do they really claim that usenet usage is flat? My Usenet provider tells a different story. Here's some statistics from news.alt.net, giving the amount of news they carry. These numbers are in average megabytes per *day*; that is, as of August, they pulled in 50 gigabytes of news per day.
Jan-99 26604.56Feb-99 26486.09
Mar-99 30351.37
Apr-99 32407.93
May-99 37458.31
Jun-99 39063.45
Jul-99 45325.55
Aug-99 50524.96
Sep-99 53721.93
I tend to agree that Usenet is still a useful way to exchange information and carry on discussions, but I don't think that text makes up the bulk of the increase.
GnuPG is a good replacement for PGP, developed outside the US, and unencumbered by patents.
For what it's worth, banner ad companies are starting to get in to the spamming business. Check out this news.com article for a discussion of doubleclick's entrance into the "direct email marketing" business.
Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for (and yes, I keep a Win32 partition around.
As other have guessed, I don't want to remove the heatsink for fear of voiding my warranty. I probably spent about $100 for the three-year warranty (not its actual cost, but as compared with buying from another retailer), so I'd feel silly voiding it within the first couple of months. I've had enough bad luck with other systems that having a warranty makes a big difference to me.
I'm sorry to see that it's an Intel utility for Intel chips. I just bought a K6-III-based system, and I'd love to have some verification that it's really a K6-III, and not a K6-2 or something else entirely. Operating systems just identify it as a K6-family chip. It does claim to be a K6-III in the BIOS, but that would seem to be fairly easy to fudge.
Also, I doubt that the Compaqs and Dells of the world misidentify what they're selling, but how many home users really buy from them? I bought from a web retailer who offered a competitive price and a good warranty, but I have very little information on the company itself. Maybe this is just as dumb as buying from eBay, but I'd like to think there's some kind of middle ground.
Uh, someone already called Amazon and Fisher-Price, and the listing is incorrect. There is no Linux version of this game. It was posted at LinuxToday before this story went up.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
I didn't see any of the names from the GPG team there, which I think is a shame. GPG is really, really important - free access to strong encryption might define privacy for the next decade, or longer.
When and how did nominations take place?
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This reminds me of something I saw years ago, supposedly written in the mid-1970s. A paraphrase: "We don't know what the programming language of the 80s (or was it 90s?) will look like, but we know it will be called FORTRAN."
The evolution of computing ideas is a lot less predictable than it seems, and 2020 is an awfully long way away.
-bc