It really has little to do with finances, and I dont think I said it did. I keep logs of all the servers I run, not really because of financial motivation but because I'm curious as to where customers are visiting from - both their IP so I can do some kind of geo / traceroutes possibly to look at what peering I need to look at to save money on bandwidth, and also where they found out about my sites - looking at what they are visiting, etc.
If you enter my building I'm within my right to use CCTV cameras to monitor what you do. I'm within my right to employ a security company to escort you off the site. The same kind of things apply to my websites.
>> If you have a problem with that then use someone else's servers
> Such a greedy, "mine mine mine!" point of view. There would be no internet if it weren't for the people who use the servers.
There would be no internet if it weren't for the people providing the servers.
Lots of services of other kinds keep some kind of log (hotels, garages, stores selling items, random joe websites, wikipedia, ISPs, museums, roads (volume counters etc.)). I think every apache server I've ever seen generates an access log, at least for some period of time.
1. Take one modern Apple PowerBook, MacBook, or alternatively one generic PC notebook running a recent Microsoft OS (2000 or later). 2. Install iTunes.
Hmm, my experiences (and those of sysadmin friends working elsewhere) is that HP has the largest marketshare, followed by Sun then IBM. I guess it depends which market, and the history of the organisations - people don't tend to jump ship overnight because of things like legacy binary compatibility.
Not everyone is rich enough or technically savvy enough to do those things.
Unfortunately, the majority of people are under the impression you cannot get your music back off an iPod to a PC, because the first thing iTunes does when installed is try and wipe everything off your iPod the first time it is connected (even though you can choose not to). Urban legend gets around, and Joe Public thinks that they can't get stuff off their iPod.
Joe Public also believes that the computer is robust - after all, they've been sold a consumer product just like their TV so it should just work, right? They don't know about off-site storage, nor about backups - they just want to use a device, not be a geek.
Insurance, at least here in the UK, usually carries a pretty hefty excess for music / media related claims. For example, my car insurance has a £100 excess on any claim, but £250 on any entertainment claim (the default was £500 so I paid to lower it). That would pretty much swallow the cost of the iPod and any music on it.
This was a technique described at CEAS 2006 (papers and slides should be on the website). It worked well for the ISP in the States that piloted it, although they were less invasive at first - hosts that had high outgoing email activity got a banner applied over the top of their web pages (or a click through). The idea was the banner got them to ring in and get help to clear their machine or get them to explain what they were doing.
There were some other ideas presented too, such as an automated system for replying to 419 scams - that was pretty cool. I think they managed to get a chain of 19 emails to/from this bot before the scammer gave up. Consume their resources if they try and consume yours!:)
The only problem with this is if you lose the files. Let's say I download a bunch of stuff onto my PC, load them onto my iPod and the hard drive in the PC dies. I can't download the music again, so the only copy is on my iPod. What if my iPod with the only copy on is stolen and the new "owner" shares all the files from the iPod?
Afraid not - I got it in the big Dragonville? Tesco just outside of Durham. They were labelled up for clearance, along with Linksys USB print servers. I've not seen them elsewhere since (Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud)
Why would people in Europe/Asia want to buy a new phone that doesn't work on 3G, has a crap camera (compared to many of the offerings), doesnt have a camera on the screen side of the phone,... etc
Other companies offer phones with these features, and most people want whizzy features, whether on not they ever use them.
I bought one in the UK for £27 from Tesco - this works out to around $51. It's not as fast as a dedicated linux server (I got around 3MB/sec write rates), but you can get a proper Linux dev environment for it and run alsorts of things, including an mt-daapd server to network share your mp3s etc to iTunes. Quite cool!
Many of the things in WHS are things I've been saying I was going to do for years. "I'm going to set up a SAN for all our documents and pictures," I keep saying, "and I'm going to schedule nightly rolling backups for all the PCs in the house." Well, I just don't have time. But if I could go out and pick up a $1500 PC, click a few buttons, and be finished... I'd do it. The linksys NSLU2 NAS adapter does this. yours for about $50 (plus drives).
I try to avoid using it by sticking my card directly into the pinpad at supermarkets rather than handing it over to be swiped AND stuck in the reader. I think it's to do with data mining, ie so they ca track purchases even if you don't have a clubcard. I instinctively bristle against that.
Eh? What does it matter if the card is stuck in the reader? If you are bothered about purchase tracking then you pay cash without a clubcard. If you use a card, of any type, to pay for your goods then they will be able to tie up your purchases against the credit card number. They will be able to tie your credit cards up against the club card the next time you use it.
Rubbish. IIS is massive on intranets and even on the internet. Maybe it isn't as big as Apache, but it certainly comes a close second (30+% of server market).
BTW, I loath Microsoft products. I'm active in trying to get my employer away from deploying 4000+ desktops with Win2k, and trying to migrate some small businesses I do consultancy work for away from Microsoft onto Linux / BSD based products. I've had enough of supporting inconsistent rubbish.
You mean like this or this or this? (note some of these cameras have been around over 5 years). I'm sure there are others too.
For DSLR users, I think Sony, Nikon and Canon all produce devices that can do this.
There are others options too - many PDA's have this capability, e.g. the iMate JAMin or the eten g500. Some mobile phones with location based services also provide this facility, although the accuracy depends on the location technology used (might not be that important for holiday snapshots?)
I agree though - with the cost of GPS these days, it should be a standard feature on pretty much all digital cameras - or at least implement bluetooth / usb connectivity to an external GPS receiver.
Right. This didn't even work when users were able to post information at a web site using invisible notes back in the 1990s. Remember that "revolution"? Users of a web site could discuss its contents with each other using software that interfaced with their web browser. End result? No one posted anything except the occasional juvenile comment. Isn't that what slashdot is? Or comments on 'blogs?
I'm not sure about that. Most of the Word documents I have to use at work are full of word macros which fill in bits of the document for me, or run a whole bunch of stuff that would take 200 billion mouse clicks to achieve otherwise. I suspect a lot of other large corporate users are in the same boat.
Of course, in my case at least, this is because the wrong tool was used for the job. A word processor and email shouldn't be doing such "online" forms in the first place.
I think it is because automatic tranmissions are generally ludicrously inefficient with the driving style over here, and the size of engine. Small cars with automatic transmission suck.
To be replaced with a whole bunch of new "luser" issues that their kids are able to cope with.
It's a never ending circle, and lies with the lack of continued education most adults suffer from - one has to keep learning, all the time. If you stop bothering you'll fall behind and become a luser in some field.
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Linux isn't worth stealing either - that's why they give it away free! ;-)
It really has little to do with finances, and I dont think I said it did. I keep logs of all the servers I run, not really because of financial motivation but because I'm curious as to where customers are visiting from - both their IP so I can do some kind of geo / traceroutes possibly to look at what peering I need to look at to save money on bandwidth, and also where they found out about my sites - looking at what they are visiting, etc.
If you enter my building I'm within my right to use CCTV cameras to monitor what you do. I'm within my right to employ a security company to escort you off the site. The same kind of things apply to my websites.
>> If you have a problem with that then use someone else's servers > Such a greedy, "mine mine mine!" point of view. There would be no internet if it weren't for the people who use the servers. There would be no internet if it weren't for the people providing the servers. Lots of services of other kinds keep some kind of log (hotels, garages, stores selling items, random joe websites, wikipedia, ISPs, museums, roads (volume counters etc.)). I think every apache server I've ever seen generates an access log, at least for some period of time.
I'm not sure "to be completely clear legally" flies - wow many websites tell you they are logging information about your visit?
Off a network, using the Windows RIS.
He must be of the opinion "It takes one to know one" :)
1. Take one modern Apple PowerBook, MacBook, or alternatively one generic PC notebook running a recent Microsoft OS (2000 or later).
2. Install iTunes.
Hmm, my experiences (and those of sysadmin friends working elsewhere) is that HP has the largest marketshare, followed by Sun then IBM. I guess it depends which market, and the history of the organisations - people don't tend to jump ship overnight because of things like legacy binary compatibility.
Not everyone is rich enough or technically savvy enough to do those things.
Unfortunately, the majority of people are under the impression you cannot get your music back off an iPod to a PC, because the first thing iTunes does when installed is try and wipe everything off your iPod the first time it is connected (even though you can choose not to). Urban legend gets around, and Joe Public thinks that they can't get stuff off their iPod.
Joe Public also believes that the computer is robust - after all, they've been sold a consumer product just like their TV so it should just work, right? They don't know about off-site storage, nor about backups - they just want to use a device, not be a geek.
Insurance, at least here in the UK, usually carries a pretty hefty excess for music / media related claims. For example, my car insurance has a £100 excess on any claim, but £250 on any entertainment claim (the default was £500 so I paid to lower it). That would pretty much swallow the cost of the iPod and any music on it.
This was a technique described at CEAS 2006 (papers and slides should be on the website). It worked well for the ISP in the States that piloted it, although they were less invasive at first - hosts that had high outgoing email activity got a banner applied over the top of their web pages (or a click through). The idea was the banner got them to ring in and get help to clear their machine or get them to explain what they were doing. There were some other ideas presented too, such as an automated system for replying to 419 scams - that was pretty cool. I think they managed to get a chain of 19 emails to/from this bot before the scammer gave up. Consume their resources if they try and consume yours! :)
These things can happen on the same day. What if a laptop (with iTunes) and ipod are stolen at the same time?
The only problem with this is if you lose the files. Let's say I download a bunch of stuff onto my PC, load them onto my iPod and the hard drive in the PC dies. I can't download the music again, so the only copy is on my iPod. What if my iPod with the only copy on is stolen and the new "owner" shares all the files from the iPod?
Afraid not - I got it in the big Dragonville? Tesco just outside of Durham. They were labelled up for clearance, along with Linksys USB print servers. I've not seen them elsewhere since (Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud)
Why would people in Europe/Asia want to buy a new phone that doesn't work on 3G, has a crap camera (compared to many of the offerings), doesnt have a camera on the screen side of the phone,... etc Other companies offer phones with these features, and most people want whizzy features, whether on not they ever use them.
I bought one in the UK for £27 from Tesco - this works out to around $51. It's not as fast as a dedicated linux server (I got around 3MB/sec write rates), but you can get a proper Linux dev environment for it and run alsorts of things, including an mt-daapd server to network share your mp3s etc to iTunes. Quite cool!
Eh? What does it matter if the card is stuck in the reader? If you are bothered about purchase tracking then you pay cash without a clubcard. If you use a card, of any type, to pay for your goods then they will be able to tie up your purchases against the credit card number. They will be able to tie your credit cards up against the club card the next time you use it.
You mean the perl script on the site the grand parent linked?
No idea where you might find that...
Rubbish. IIS is massive on intranets and even on the internet. Maybe it isn't as big as Apache, but it certainly comes a close second (30+% of server market).
BTW, I loath Microsoft products. I'm active in trying to get my employer away from deploying 4000+ desktops with Win2k, and trying to migrate some small businesses I do consultancy work for away from Microsoft onto Linux / BSD based products. I've had enough of supporting inconsistent rubbish.
If you wrote an operating system that did nothing out of the box by default I'm sure you could make it bug free too
For DSLR users, I think Sony, Nikon and Canon all produce devices that can do this.
There are others options too - many PDA's have this capability, e.g. the iMate JAMin or the eten g500. Some mobile phones with location based services also provide this facility, although the accuracy depends on the location technology used (might not be that important for holiday snapshots?)
I agree though - with the cost of GPS these days, it should be a standard feature on pretty much all digital cameras - or at least implement bluetooth / usb connectivity to an external GPS receiver.
I'm not sure about that. Most of the Word documents I have to use at work are full of word macros which fill in bits of the document for me, or run a whole bunch of stuff that would take 200 billion mouse clicks to achieve otherwise. I suspect a lot of other large corporate users are in the same boat.
Of course, in my case at least, this is because the wrong tool was used for the job. A word processor and email shouldn't be doing such "online" forms in the first place.
I think it is because automatic tranmissions are generally ludicrously inefficient with the driving style over here, and the size of engine. Small cars with automatic transmission suck.
To be replaced with a whole bunch of new "luser" issues that their kids are able to cope with. It's a never ending circle, and lies with the lack of continued education most adults suffer from - one has to keep learning, all the time. If you stop bothering you'll fall behind and become a luser in some field.