Here's one way to make your hard drives seem quieter - use an abit bp6 with 2xglobalwin FEP32 fans. You can hardly hear the drives then as the fans drown out everything (including thought and sanity).
On a more serious note, I've taken to using my old k6-2/300 more lately just because of the noise Its summer now here in the UK, so I have to remove the case or else it overheats... in winter its just about bearable...
Is it worth it? Yes, if you take a more sociological as opposed to technological view of it.
If you use what others have used (and continue to use), then you're protecting your back against a failure. If you go out on a limb, use free stuff and it fails, YOU are reponsible (at least initially). If you do what others have done, then if it fails, at least it wasn't "your fault".
I did my M.Sc dissertation in a hospital, doing a CBR helpdesk for some life support equipment maintenance. In the end, practically nothing could be done because if something was done due to the AI's recommendations, then the programmer (and the supervisor who allowed the programmer in) would have to be responsible. If we left things as they were (and let the few overworked technicians do what my CBR helpdesk could have done), then its their responsibility (and everyone's happy).
Here's an interesting catch-22. The instructions for installing Thai over linux at linux.thai.net are in Thai. So, in order to install Thai, you have to have Thai to read Thai to know how to install Thai. Silly, but not too bad.
What *is* bad is the fact that the.rpms I got from that site totally messed up my redhat (at that time, pinstripe 6.9.5) system to the point that it could not boot. Running (happily) on RH 7.0 now I haven't dared try again... (yet). Yeah, my fault for trying it out on a beta. Anyone know if they work on 7.0?
On whether it is difficult or not. Yes it is. Many of my friends need a dictionary to decypher my email, and I have to boot into windows to decypher theirs. But can I live with it? Yes, but many others I know could not.
Enabling HSCSD on Orange for my 6210 costs an extra five pounds a month flat rate, with no difference in airtime charges.
Admittedly it's a two-channel 28.8kbps (2x14.4k) setup and not 43.2k yet. But as the 6210 seems incapable of full duplex at 43.2k anyway (at+cbst=51,0,1;+chsn=6,0,0,0 will yield 43.2k downlink, but only 14.4k uplink according to the documentation), I would assume that the videophone will use the existing full duplex 28.8kbps setup anyway.
What intrigued me was the use of dos attacks. If dos is "a bad thing", can it be (morally / legally) used in self defence? Would not setting up a web server with such a feature mean your account will be terminated real soon?
If dos attacks in self defence are okay (morally, if not legally), then what about using them in protest against something we don't like (the attempt to down etoys server at specific times rings a bell). Clamping down on this line of development would be a tad iron fisted, but allowing it to progress unhindered could lead to anarchy.
But then again, the real world isn't that much clearer. 60 odd days ago the UK saw "peaceful fuel protests" that brought the country to a halt, yet a farmer who shot a burglar in self defense was convicted and imprisoned.
(Personally I'm all for fuel protests and anything that means a full tank of fuel is less than 50 pounds - that's about US$80).
And to think that 4 days ago I just got a new (114g for you weight watchers) 6210. Well, at least 28.8kbps on a palm v isn't too bad for wireless access...
By the way, does *any* network now support all 3 channels for 43.2k (3x14.4) support? My network only gives 2 (2x14.4=28.8) for now at least.
One might say that it is optional, and perhaps even desirable in a secure, corporate environment. But that is beside the point. The point is that anyone who wants their software signed will have to bear all to microsoft and thereby allow microsoft's engineers in the process of "certifying" it, pilfer any good ideas that package might contain.
No doubt the empire will encourage businesses that such a move will be a "good thing", and any competitor that effectively does not show their source code to microsoft will be shown the back door by corporations that have taken the bait. Sounds anti-competitive to me.
Probably won't work well - officially they give off less heat than an Athlon 1.2:(
But then again, given the performance (or lack, thereof), perhaps we should be comparing them to durons... and yes, the P4 does give off more heat:) Score one for intel.
I'm not in the US and don't know much about US calling plans, etc, but here in the UK, I'm currently going around with three numbers so I can effectively get the best of any network.
The highest cost of UK mobile usage is other-network calls (roughly 7 times that of a same network or local call). So I've got myself a Nokia 7110 (unlocked with some software I grabbed of an obscure site) and three sim cards (Orange, Vodafone and Virgin). The first two mainly for making calls to others on those networks and the last so I can receive unlimited email into my phone for 10 pounds a year:)
What's relevant to your case is that perhaps it'd make sense to get an easily unlockable, popular phone, and a couple of SIMs, that is if the line rental is low or nonexistant.
Here's a wicked thought. If we don't like what ICANN does, given their undemocractic nature, we can always choose to rebel and incite a civil uprising. Generally speaking, western governments support, if not directly, the "people" of a "nation" when they overthrow a "dictatorship".
But what happens when a dictatorship is actually set up by the world's greatest democracy? Oops, forgot. Firstly ICANN isn't purely American (more at large members outside than from the US of A) and secondly, I doubt the US is, given the Florida situation, still the world's greatest (example of a working) democracy.
A year ago I would have agreed with it totally, but when my 15 year old brother came to visit my linux-only flat for a while... despite my best efforts, he preferred to be totally off-line instead of learn linux.
I myself, feel linux to be different and cool. Hip and stylish even. But I was bought up on an apple ][ and, later, DOS. Using linux wasn't difficult. But for someone who's first experience of computing was windows 95... it's hard to fathom even the concept of a command line!
About 10-15 years ago, Thailand had practically no copyright enforcement, which is all but the same as no copyright law. People and companies bought and sold pirated software openly.The flipside was that localised software (which consisted mainly of word processing and accounting packages) were archaic, even by the stands of the day (MS Word, wordstar, etc). Few packages were around, and most centred around hardware mods to a hercules graphics card or just plain old 8-bit anti-piracy cards, and the price was very high, essentially every user having to have a turnkey project (not so much the language fonts, but rather the accounting software) costing a lot more than any copy of quicken would.
Later, when a sembalance of copyright enforcement came about, people started actually making better software, as they could spend more effort on the software project and less on anti-piracy measures. I think that without those high-level changes, Thailand would never have had localised versions of windows or office (but that might not have been a bad thing in the long run!)
Without copyright laws, perhaps we'd still have 64K 4.77MHz 8088 cpus with instructions on how to write our own programs in BASIC and a tape drive to boot (or 160k floppy if we're lucky). For without the will to innovate (the premsis here is that programmers spend more on copy protection than on innovation) there would be little room for "pushing the envelope", but this is admittedly a rather farfetched leap of logic.
To get back to the point, it's not copyright laws that are wrong in themselves. I think it's perfectly alright to copyright a certain piece of work to repay the author for his "creative imput" (a term I got from a friend at the University of Manchester - better acknowledge this!) if he so chooses. It's also perfectly alright to create from the ground up the same software for free if someone so chooses to spend his time on such a project. But it's the abuse of this system for financial (or political) purposes that isn't nice. To paraphrase a comment on microsoft that having a monopoly isn't illegal, but abusing it is, one might say that having a software copyright system is not the cause of our woes, it's the abuse of that system that is.
With costs in formula one already spiraling out of control, this does open up one very interesting possibility - robotic test drivers. Perhaps they could be programmed for the quirks and habits of specific drivers and let loose to run hundreds of test laps a day, though with restrictions on testing in place, it wouldn't help much...
But then again, why not pay the russians to build a test track at Chernobyl... where radiation is so high that no FIA delegate can approach... and test there in unlimited laps...
Open sourcing government projects is a good idea, but like many ideas which make good (common) sense, bureaucrats by and large do not think in the same way we do. For them, it is not so much a matter of cost, but a matter of responsibility and who's to blame if something goes wrong. They live in a world where success does not bring anything (barring more work) and mistakes can cost their jobs.
In other words, given the choice of spending one million but shouldering any potential blame and spending ten million and out-sourcing it, any self preserving bureaucrat would argue for the latter, as if something goes wrong, they can blame the contractor. Whereas in the first instance, they would end up on the wrong side of a disciplinary committee hearing.
I've also been using 6.9.5 for the past couple of weeks, and my experience of it couldn't have been more different. It's running damn terrible on my system...
First my MS intellimouse explorer works in USB mode only about half the time - reason enough for be to go back to using the PS/2 mouse adapter! The other half, the mouse doesn't "light up". Though strangely enough, the mouse's accelleration and resolution seem to be much more user friendly in USB mode than in PS/2 mode.
Second, while the single processor kernel works fine, the default SMP kernel that ships with 6.9.5 hangs very often (/var/log/messages says its something to do with weird APM calls). Strangely enough, a new kernel build with all default values (except for enabling SMP) fixed this problem. Maybe Abit BP6's aren't that common out there...
Third, and most serious of all (for me) is that for some reason, if I ever quit from X and try running startx again (without a reboot), the machine hangs. This wasn't a problem with 6.2, though I used the SuSE ATi rage128 server for it as RH6.2 didn't have any out of the box support...
Somehow I expected more from Redhat, even if it is beta. Right now I can only hope that a proper install of 7.0 come next week will solve these problems.
The point of the case against Napster seems to be that of personal / fair use (i.e. giving a copy to a friend... who might buy the CD anyway later). The fact that it is an FTP server of such a magnitude seems to fall outside even that.
More worringly for me is the fact that a large number of comments are aimed at the RIAA, which, while many may be valid, makes me fear that we are unwittingly, just endorsing their claim that the open source movement (those who participate/.) are committed to software (and IP as a whole) being free regardless of copyright issues. In short they say we value free (even pirated) beer. I say we value free speech more (and any free beer is a welcome bonus).
While it may be true that laywers rule the world, one thing that we should remember is that most don't have any agenda of their own and only do what their paymasters dictate. If we have a lobby organization powerful (and by powerful, I reluctantly mean wealthy) enough, be it an extension of the FSF or whatever, then I see no problem.
One nice anology would be MP3s and guns. One could say, hypothetically, guns are bad, while MP3 is good. Yet, the fact that a huge gun association and lobby exists make them legal, while the latter, for lack of a strong counterpart, has all but been deemed illegal. It hasn't been deemed illegal, I know, but for the sake of the anology, let's just suppose that is the case!
One question I have that someone could perhaps shed some light on would be the relative fees / membership roll of, say, the FSF, the gun lobbies and the ACLU... perhaps throw in Greenpeace and other special interest groups. That information would make good reading in supporting, or disproving this line of thought.
Has anyone noticed that icann.org (as in www.icann.org and members.icann.org) seems to be down now (almost 2 AM, GMT)?
When I registered back late in July, it also took me HOURS to get my registration through... the server was overloaded. Granted, I did register on the last day of July...
Perhaps before they do anything to the internet, they ought to sort out their own network first!
Here in the UK, if you leave stuff in your shopping basket at dabs.com, when you next access your basket, they'll tell you if any prices have gone up or down. Nice:)
4.9 billion years hence, assuming that only cockroaches and lawyers for the MPAA exist, what kind of legacy are we leaving for the inhabitants of a new star with new life, billions of light years away. With a plethora of PCs running their version of seti@home, what chance do they have of picking up our civilisation.
Practically none when you think about it.
By that time, encryption will be so advanced it'd take a billion years to develop the hardware and probably another billion to crack the zillion-bit encryption code used to ensure we all have to pay lots of samolens for our classic "Simpsons". Laws will be passed to shield monitors and television sets to prevent old-fashioned analogue interception of what is considered the property of the movie studios. In other words, if aliens do pick up anythign, it would be so unintelligible that it makes no difference from the randomness of background noise in space.
Even today, with power levels going down and down, smaller sattelite dishes and (relatively) simple compression, we are slowly but surely destroying any chance of aliens detecting us. A decade ago, it would be conceivable for someone to constuct from scratch the apparatus to decode a television signal. Now, how would we get past the stage of constructing a viewing card?
I know it's off topic, but it's the closest topic I've seen for a long time to put forward this line of thought:-)
Just some random thoughts off the top of my head before I go to bed tonight... Please don't take it seriously.
Has anyone out there watched (or read) the original Dragon Ball series? An infinitely better one IMHO. Perhaps we should have a poll to see how many of us here have indeed seen both...
For those who are proclaiming that voilence is bad (to put it bluntly) the original series was much more about adventure, with and Goku's innocence above all else (at least, that's what I remember from over a decade ago). Rescuing Gigi from the vampires with his most powerful attack being only a flash of light comes to mind...
A phone hanging is one thing, but what if it were permantly locked? I've recently played around my 7110 and successfully unlocked the simlock (to allow it to use other networks' SIM cards). Now, the scary thing is that a logical extension is that if I were to leave my IR active, it would be quite straightforward for anyone with a laptop nearby to lock the phone so that it won't work my my SIM (or any SIM for that matter)... now that's a scary thought.
Being rather fed up with those girls have nothing better to do but keep trying to chat strangers up, I changed my info to show I was but a few months old. Bad mistake, got that message (about a month ago), changed my DOB back, that same day... and ICQ *still* deleted my account:-(
But at least it worked -> got a lot less strangers chatting me up now I have a 70 Million+ UIN... guess I don't show up on the head of whitepage searches anymore...:-)
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Here's one way to make your hard drives seem quieter - use an abit bp6 with 2xglobalwin FEP32 fans. You can hardly hear the drives then as the fans drown out everything (including thought and sanity).
On a more serious note, I've taken to using my old k6-2/300 more lately just because of the noise Its summer now here in the UK, so I have to remove the case or else it overheats... in winter its just about bearable...
Is it worth it? Yes, if you take a more sociological as opposed to technological view of it.
If you use what others have used (and continue to use), then you're protecting your back against a failure. If you go out on a limb, use free stuff and it fails, YOU are reponsible (at least initially). If you do what others have done, then if it fails, at least it wasn't "your fault".
I did my M.Sc dissertation in a hospital, doing a CBR helpdesk for some life support equipment maintenance. In the end, practically nothing could be done because if something was done due to the AI's recommendations, then the programmer (and the supervisor who allowed the programmer in) would have to be responsible. If we left things as they were (and let the few overworked technicians do what my CBR helpdesk could have done), then its their responsibility (and everyone's happy).
Here's an interesting catch-22. The instructions for installing Thai over linux at linux.thai.net are in Thai. So, in order to install Thai, you have to have Thai to read Thai to know how to install Thai. Silly, but not too bad.
.rpms I got from that site totally messed up my redhat (at that time, pinstripe 6.9.5) system to the point that it could not boot. Running (happily) on RH 7.0 now I haven't dared try again... (yet). Yeah, my fault for trying it out on a beta. Anyone know if they work on 7.0?
What *is* bad is the fact that the
On whether it is difficult or not. Yes it is. Many of my friends need a dictionary to decypher my email, and I have to boot into windows to decypher theirs. But can I live with it? Yes, but many others I know could not.
Enabling HSCSD on Orange for my 6210 costs an extra five pounds a month flat rate, with no difference in airtime charges.
Admittedly it's a two-channel 28.8kbps (2x14.4k) setup and not 43.2k yet. But as the 6210 seems incapable of full duplex at 43.2k anyway (at+cbst=51,0,1;+chsn=6,0,0,0 will yield 43.2k downlink, but only 14.4k uplink according to the documentation), I would assume that the videophone will use the existing full duplex 28.8kbps setup anyway.
What intrigued me was the use of dos attacks. If dos is "a bad thing", can it be (morally / legally) used in self defence? Would not setting up a web server with such a feature mean your account will be terminated real soon?
If dos attacks in self defence are okay (morally, if not legally), then what about using them in protest against something we don't like (the attempt to down etoys server at specific times rings a bell). Clamping down on this line of development would be a tad iron fisted, but allowing it to progress unhindered could lead to anarchy.
But then again, the real world isn't that much clearer. 60 odd days ago the UK saw "peaceful fuel protests" that brought the country to a halt, yet a farmer who shot a burglar in self defense was convicted and imprisoned.
(Personally I'm all for fuel protests and anything that means a full tank of fuel is less than 50 pounds - that's about US$80).
And to think that 4 days ago I just got a new (114g for you weight watchers) 6210. Well, at least 28.8kbps on a palm v isn't too bad for wireless access...
By the way, does *any* network now support all 3 channels for 43.2k (3x14.4) support? My network only gives 2 (2x14.4=28.8) for now at least.
One might say that it is optional, and perhaps even desirable in a secure, corporate environment. But that is beside the point. The point is that anyone who wants their software signed will have to bear all to microsoft and thereby allow microsoft's engineers in the process of "certifying" it, pilfer any good ideas that package might contain.
No doubt the empire will encourage businesses that such a move will be a "good thing", and any competitor that effectively does not show their source code to microsoft will be shown the back door by corporations that have taken the bait. Sounds anti-competitive to me.
Probably won't work well - officially they give off less heat than an Athlon 1.2 :(
:) Score one for intel.
But then again, given the performance (or lack, thereof), perhaps we should be comparing them to durons... and yes, the P4 does give off more heat
I was just making a sarcastic jab at the very fact that the democractic systems of the US (and ICANN) are seriously flawed :)
I'm not in the US and don't know much about US calling plans, etc, but here in the UK, I'm currently going around with three numbers so I can effectively get the best of any network.
:)
The highest cost of UK mobile usage is other-network calls (roughly 7 times that of a same network or local call). So I've got myself a Nokia 7110 (unlocked with some software I grabbed of an obscure site) and three sim cards (Orange, Vodafone and Virgin). The first two mainly for making calls to others on those networks and the last so I can receive unlimited email into my phone for 10 pounds a year
What's relevant to your case is that perhaps it'd make sense to get an easily unlockable, popular phone, and a couple of SIMs, that is if the line rental is low or nonexistant.
Don't take this seriously...
Here's a wicked thought. If we don't like what ICANN does, given their undemocractic nature, we can always choose to rebel and incite a civil uprising. Generally speaking, western governments support, if not directly, the "people" of a "nation" when they overthrow a "dictatorship".
But what happens when a dictatorship is actually set up by the world's greatest democracy? Oops, forgot. Firstly ICANN isn't purely American (more at large members outside than from the US of A) and secondly, I doubt the US is, given the Florida situation, still the world's greatest (example of a working) democracy.
A year ago I would have agreed with it totally, but when my 15 year old brother came to visit my linux-only flat for a while... despite my best efforts, he preferred to be totally off-line instead of learn linux.
I myself, feel linux to be different and cool. Hip and stylish even. But I was bought up on an apple ][ and, later, DOS. Using linux wasn't difficult. But for someone who's first experience of computing was windows 95... it's hard to fathom even the concept of a command line!
Later, when a sembalance of copyright enforcement came about, people started actually making better software, as they could spend more effort on the software project and less on anti-piracy measures. I think that without those high-level changes, Thailand would never have had localised versions of windows or office (but that might not have been a bad thing in the long run!)
Without copyright laws, perhaps we'd still have 64K 4.77MHz 8088 cpus with instructions on how to write our own programs in BASIC and a tape drive to boot (or 160k floppy if we're lucky). For without the will to innovate (the premsis here is that programmers spend more on copy protection than on innovation) there would be little room for "pushing the envelope", but this is admittedly a rather farfetched leap of logic.
To get back to the point, it's not copyright laws that are wrong in themselves. I think it's perfectly alright to copyright a certain piece of work to repay the author for his "creative imput" (a term I got from a friend at the University of Manchester - better acknowledge this!) if he so chooses. It's also perfectly alright to create from the ground up the same software for free if someone so chooses to spend his time on such a project. But it's the abuse of this system for financial (or political) purposes that isn't nice. To paraphrase a comment on microsoft that having a monopoly isn't illegal, but abusing it is, one might say that having a software copyright system is not the cause of our woes, it's the abuse of that system that is.
With costs in formula one already spiraling out of control, this does open up one very interesting possibility - robotic test drivers. Perhaps they could be programmed for the quirks and habits of specific drivers and let loose to run hundreds of test laps a day, though with restrictions on testing in place, it wouldn't help much...
:)
But then again, why not pay the russians to build a test track at Chernobyl... where radiation is so high that no FIA delegate can approach... and test there in unlimited laps...
It's an idea...
Open sourcing government projects is a good idea, but like many ideas which make good (common) sense, bureaucrats by and large do not think in the same way we do. For them, it is not so much a matter of cost, but a matter of responsibility and who's to blame if something goes wrong. They live in a world where success does not bring anything (barring more work) and mistakes can cost their jobs.
In other words, given the choice of spending one million but shouldering any potential blame and spending ten million and out-sourcing it, any self preserving bureaucrat would argue for the latter, as if something goes wrong, they can blame the contractor. Whereas in the first instance, they would end up on the wrong side of a disciplinary committee hearing.
I've also been using 6.9.5 for the past couple of weeks, and my experience of it couldn't have been more different. It's running damn terrible on my system...
First my MS intellimouse explorer works in USB mode only about half the time - reason enough for be to go back to using the PS/2 mouse adapter! The other half, the mouse doesn't "light up". Though strangely enough, the mouse's accelleration and resolution seem to be much more user friendly in USB mode than in PS/2 mode.
Second, while the single processor kernel works fine, the default SMP kernel that ships with 6.9.5 hangs very often (/var/log/messages says its something to do with weird APM calls). Strangely enough, a new kernel build with all default values (except for enabling SMP) fixed this problem. Maybe Abit BP6's aren't that common out there...
Third, and most serious of all (for me) is that for some reason, if I ever quit from X and try running startx again (without a reboot), the machine hangs. This wasn't a problem with 6.2, though I used the SuSE ATi rage128 server for it as RH6.2 didn't have any out of the box support...
Somehow I expected more from Redhat, even if it is beta. Right now I can only hope that a proper install of 7.0 come next week will solve these problems.
The point of the case against Napster seems to be that of personal / fair use (i.e. giving a copy to a friend... who might buy the CD anyway later). The fact that it is an FTP server of such a magnitude seems to fall outside even that.
/.) are committed to software (and IP as a whole) being free regardless of copyright issues. In short they say we value free (even pirated) beer. I say we value free speech more (and any free beer is a welcome bonus).
More worringly for me is the fact that a large number of comments are aimed at the RIAA, which, while many may be valid, makes me fear that we are unwittingly, just endorsing their claim that the open source movement (those who participate
While it may be true that laywers rule the world, one thing that we should remember is that most don't have any agenda of their own and only do what their paymasters dictate. If we have a lobby organization powerful (and by powerful, I reluctantly mean wealthy) enough, be it an extension of the FSF or whatever, then I see no problem.
One nice anology would be MP3s and guns. One could say, hypothetically, guns are bad, while MP3 is good. Yet, the fact that a huge gun association and lobby exists make them legal, while the latter, for lack of a strong counterpart, has all but been deemed illegal. It hasn't been deemed illegal, I know, but for the sake of the anology, let's just suppose that is the case!
One question I have that someone could perhaps shed some light on would be the relative fees / membership roll of, say, the FSF, the gun lobbies and the ACLU... perhaps throw in Greenpeace and other special interest groups. That information would make good reading in supporting, or disproving this line of thought.
Has anyone noticed that icann.org (as in www.icann.org and members.icann.org) seems to be down now (almost 2 AM, GMT)?
When I registered back late in July, it also took me HOURS to get my registration through... the server was overloaded. Granted, I did register on the last day of July...
Perhaps before they do anything to the internet, they ought to sort out their own network first!
Here in the UK, if you leave stuff in your shopping basket at dabs.com, when you next access your basket, they'll tell you if any prices have gone up or down. Nice :)
4.9 billion years hence, assuming that only cockroaches and lawyers for the MPAA exist, what kind of legacy are we leaving for the inhabitants of a new star with new life, billions of light years away. With a plethora of PCs running their version of seti@home, what chance do they have of picking up our civilisation.
:-)
Practically none when you think about it.
By that time, encryption will be so advanced it'd take a billion years to develop the hardware and probably another billion to crack the zillion-bit encryption code used to ensure we all have to pay lots of samolens for our classic "Simpsons". Laws will be passed to shield monitors and television sets to prevent old-fashioned analogue interception of what is considered the property of the movie studios. In other words, if aliens do pick up anythign, it would be so unintelligible that it makes no difference from the randomness of background noise in space.
Even today, with power levels going down and down, smaller sattelite dishes and (relatively) simple compression, we are slowly but surely destroying any chance of aliens detecting us. A decade ago, it would be conceivable for someone to constuct from scratch the apparatus to decode a television signal. Now, how would we get past the stage of constructing a viewing card?
I know it's off topic, but it's the closest topic I've seen for a long time to put forward this line of thought
Just some random thoughts off the top of my head before I go to bed tonight... Please don't take it seriously.
Has anyone out there watched (or read) the original Dragon Ball series? An infinitely better one IMHO. Perhaps we should have a poll to see how many of us here have indeed seen both...
For those who are proclaiming that voilence is bad (to put it bluntly) the original series was much more about adventure, with and Goku's innocence above all else (at least, that's what I remember from over a decade ago). Rescuing Gigi from the vampires with his most powerful attack being only a flash of light comes to mind...
A phone hanging is one thing, but what if it were permantly locked? I've recently played around my 7110 and successfully unlocked the simlock (to allow it to use other networks' SIM cards). Now, the scary thing is that a logical extension is that if I were to leave my IR active, it would be quite straightforward for anyone with a laptop nearby to lock the phone so that it won't work my my SIM (or any SIM for that matter)... now that's a scary thought.
Being rather fed up with those girls have nothing better to do but keep trying to chat strangers up, I changed my info to show I was but a few months old. Bad mistake, got that message (about a month ago), changed my DOB back, that same day... and ICQ *still* deleted my account :-(
:-)
But at least it worked -> got a lot less strangers chatting me up now I have a 70 Million+ UIN... guess I don't show up on the head of whitepage searches anymore...
So it that piracy... or liberalisation?